OK smartphone

Tune a guitar, find your way around, drive a car in a video game… Your smartphone is easily capable of doing all that, and it doesn’t blow your mind. But if only you knew how it works…

“OK smartphone” is the first app in history to break through your smartphone screen, to show you what it’s like inside ! An active and interactive exploration of the sensors in your smartphone using everyday-life examples.

Give it a try on your smartphone, the link is right below.

OK smartphone in a flash

One sensor after the other

Accelerometer

Gyroscope

Light meter

Microphone

In the every-day life

Behind the scenes

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This project was created by Léa Reviron, during an internship in the “Physics Reimagined” team (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS).

Programming : Frédéric Bouquet and Léa Reviron

Illustration, animation and video editing : Léa Reviron

Concept : Julien Bobroff, Lou-Andreas Etienne, Frédéric Bouquet and Léa Reviron

It benefited from the support of the Chair “La Physique Autrement” of the Paris-Saclay foundation and supported by the Air Liquide group and the Crédit Agricole – CIB.

Thank you to the Centre d’Expérimentation Pédagogique of the Villebon – Georges Charpak Institute for its welcome, to Valentine for the crossword breaks, to Lisa and Chloé for the inspiring conversations and to the Physics Reimagined team, Lou-Andreas, Julien and Frédéric for their support.

Authors:

Léa Reviron

Designer en création numérique, en stage

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ANR Link

Dafox

dafox.co/

Authors:

Camille Debard

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Adèle Nyitrai

ENSCI-Les Ateliers

Authors:

Charlène Lemasson

ENS Paris-Saclay, design

An animation movie to better understand how a physicists thinks, how many cats there are in Paris, and why you must like broccoli…

The animation

The backstage

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Le trailer

Bibliography links :

– publication de Carbone 4 : faire sa part
– Sustainable energy de D. MacKay
– Les conférences et livres de J.M Jancovici et de P. Bihouix

– “Order-of-Magnitude Physics” de Sanjoy Mahajan

– “Physics for Future Presidents” by R. Muller

– “What if” by R. Monroe

This project was created by Marine Monseux in the “Physics Reimagined” team (LPS, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS).

Text and voice: Julien Bobroff

Screenplay: Julien Bobroff, Lou-Andreas Etienne, Marine Monseux

It benefited from the support of the Chair “La Physique Autrement” carried by the Paris-Saclay foundation and supported by the Air Liquide group.

Thank you to the Center d’Expérimentation Pédagogique of the Villebon-Georges Charpak Institute for its welcome.

Thank you to Julien and Lou-Andreas for their support and trust. Thank you to the whole team for their permanent good humor and kindness: Julien, Lou-Andreas, Frédéric, Adèle, Camille, Charlène, Joséphine and Valentine.

Authors:

Marine Monseux

DNMADE Design graphique, Ecole Duperré

Nous aussi ! Mais on a imaginé quelques solutions…

toutes les idées résumées en un fichier

Nos 15 solutions en image :

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Ce projet a été développé au Centre d’Expérimentation Pédagogique de l’Institut Villebon-Georges Charpak en collaboration avec pleins de supers collègues enseignant-chercheurs à l’Université Paris-Saclay.

Il a été mis en forme par Lou-Andreas Etienne avec l’aide de Valentine Duru et Julien Bobroff.

Authors:

Le CEP de l'Institut Villebon-Georges Charpak

Lou-Andreas Etienne

Designer

How to make invisible with physics? Answer with a stop motion and stamps! (sorry it’s in French)

The stop-motion (in French) :

The two-voices live conference (sorry in French) :

The stamps images :

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Backstage :

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This project was carried out by Camille Debard in the team “La Physique Autrement” (LPS, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS). It has benefited from the support of the “La Physique Autrement” Chair supported by the Paris-Saclay Foundation and supported by the Air Liquide group.

Thanks to the Educational Experimentation Center of the Villebon-Georges Charpak Institute for its welcome.

Thanks to Thomas Gredin from the IUT d’Orsay techlab for his help.

Thanks to Benjamin Vest from IOGS for his expertise.

Thanks to Elsa, Lucille, Jonathan for their bright ideas, to her Simon for his precious help and the music, and to all the members of the team Lou-Andreas, Julien, Frédéric, Iris, Agathe, Marine, Adèle and Valentine.

Authors:

Camille Debard

graphisme et illustration, Hear (Strasbourg)

Julien Bobroff

physicien

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Collectif d'étudiants

DSAA Design d'Illustration Scientifique, Ecole Estienne

Two teams compete with their smartphones in the the days of the cavemen ! A ready-to-play game, from 2 to 10 players, which will show you that your smartphones are much more than you think!