Why Real-World Examples?
- It brings real world benefits
- Instead of technology-push ,reality-pull
- Be informed and inspired by existing problems to drive the agenda
Specific Settings - Examples
- Health care application
- Shopping window, shopfront
- Transport
- A residential building, or neighbourhood
- A residential building, or neighbourhood
Example: Health Care Environment
- Waiting environment to mitigate anxiety
- Virtual reality therapy, rehabilitation, private
- Autism , games, interaction technologies are relevant, e.g. kinect
- Recreational, portholes, wayfinding
- Wayfinding
- Representing informational material about medicine, information visualisation, persuasion, logging
- Multi-user social context can be motivating
- Specifics: Personal identification, roles of doctor and patience, managing semi-public activities, virtual environments and portholes, privacy sensitivity, accessibility of people differently able
Example: Building
- Residential
- Bulletin board, organisational
- Social
- Energy
- Community, participation , risk of exclusion, isolation, developing shared cultral identity, common goals
- Finding a place(?) There seems to be no space yet...
- Display to the outside? Privacy issues?
Next Steps: Intervention Studies
- Problems of deployment, approvals
- Stakeholder collaboration
- Framework
Research Issues
- Flock creates output, how does the individual gain feedback?
- Abstract levels of interaction and feedback are easier.
- Does the mobile as a feedback method always create a personal sphere?
- Turn it the other way around: Installation is secondary; Public screen installations as a meter of some other activity
- Life-cycle of installation: Feedback requirements change over the period
Intentions
- Creation of an agora
- Bridge between virtual and real space
- Forming community through shared experience and shared communication
- Forming the body politic
Expectations
- Satisfaction of imagined or advertised outcomes
- Speed of recognition of response
- Authenticity of response and experince
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University of Calgary |
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Universitat Pomeu Fabra
C/Tanger 122-140, E-08018 |
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Helsinki Inst. for Info. Technology |
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