Interactive Installations: Tales from the Trenches
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Breakthrough innovation can be interpreted as research translated into products that the market accepts. The process of market translation of several products developed by WowSystems, a Portuguese company specialized in novel interaction paradigms, is explained in this paper as a case study shedding some light into how innovation centers can better promote innovation, in the form of well-succeeded products. We describe two paradigmatic “tales from the trenches” and conclude with some guidelines that were outlined on the basis of more than three years delivering fifty interactive installations.
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