There has already been a huge amount of research into non-verbal communication and its importance in our everyday understanding of one another. To a large extent, this has been lost in online communications, which is more and more becoming our main method of talking to each-other.
Biometric technology, as mentioned here, could have huge implications for the way we communicate with others in the 21st Century. In many ways, as we spend more and more of our lives online, our daily experience has become solitary. Maybe if digital communication could be made to incorporate our feelings and moods based on non-verbal cues our experience of using digital media could be less impersonal. A system such as this could have serious benefits for people who are isolated or lonely, living their lives mostly online.
Another area that could benefit from this sort of technology is inter-cultural communication. In different cultures, body language can mean different things. If biometric technology could be used in this way, to translate body language between different cultures, a greater inter-cultural understanding could be reached through the use of digital media.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Fanzines
Fanzines were democratic design for the print era. Maybe it’s time for a digital version of these iconic DIY publications.A framework could be developed which allows users to personalise their own content and share their publication with others, i.e. a digital zine culture/community—or is that just another name for a blog? Have blogs replaced the need for these homemade publications or is there something still missing?
Steven Heller on Fanzines: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/books/review/Heller-t.html
Biometric Technology
A system recently developed by researchers at Concordia university which might be able to determine mood via a person's facial expressions.An ITBusiness article states, “The system analyzes a facial expression by first measuring the distance between the eyes. Based on that, it is able to map out other regions of the face and set a template. Then, it can process different markers that give away a person's mood. By focusing on specific groups of muscles near the eyes, nose and mouth, the system determines mood without requiring a full facial profile. That means less data is needed to determine a profile than other types of facial recognition.”
Currently, the implications for Airport security are being looked into but perhaps this system could also have applications in personal digital media? Could a biometric identification system be built into our existing interaction with digital media?—In this way our laptops, televisions, iPods could conceivably know what mood we're in.
(via http://inhardfocus.com/inhardfocus/2008/12/9/why-so-serious.html)
Mood Detection/Unsound Science
Thinking about the various ways of collecting data from people, I've been looking into mood detection as a possibility. However there doesn't seem to be much sound science behind it. There is an argument that body temperature is linked to a person's emotional state but this varies from person to person and does not always communicate the same information—the same body temp. can mean different moods.There is a mood detector App available: http://www.schvarts.com/detectors/mood-detector/ but it's more of a toy (and looks terrible).
Also came across this: courses.engr.illinois.edu/ece445/projects/fall2005/project2_presentation.ppt which is a student's proposal for a system which reads the mood of the user and creates music playlists based around these readings—which is similar to what I was thinking but it's a clunky and invasive system, involving sensors being placed on the user.
A system that could be linked to your itunes and remember what music you listen to when you’re in a certain mood might have better functionality—again though, the science is questionable.
Friday, February 18, 2011
DBA Inclusive Design Challenge 2010
Congratulations to Clinic for winning this year’s DBA inclusive design challenge award. The London based creative agency’s winning concept entitled ‘Sage & Onions’; is a not-for-profit communications initiative aimed at stimulating activity and community participation. It encourages people to trade their time and skills with each other. Individuals and businesses can market events, share experiences and create new networks. A video, that explains the concept in more detail is embedded below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltty2zlcaE0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltty2zlcaE0
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Health Care- redesign of an insurance card.....
I was just thinking about a better system for health insurance.
Okay, on the one hand there is the professional discretion
of the medics, but on the other hand I would prefer that every
med is able to see my "history of sick". I think our daily
system is very unflexible and doesn't oblige the patient.
What do you think?
First I was tinking about people having epilepsie. But maybe it
is interesting to think about something like the diary, but in general...
Sunday, February 13, 2011
A printer that prints itself
Democratic design, the framework is available to everyone and what you do with it is up to you. Sort of ties in with what we are doing
Friday, February 11, 2011
Depersonalisation?
Is implicit personalisation just the act of turning everyone into effective and autonomous consumers. Is this the depersonalisation of the individual, taking what apparently makes someone an individual and placing them into multiple consumer markets? The view that someone can be reduced into a series of potential sales ?
"I hate you all... lol"
I share stuff online I wouldn't say in real life. Interesting stuff of the disinhibition effect online.
Are our online personas more indicative of our actual selves or another fabrication
http://users.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/disinhibit.html
Nokias future - Glasses
Could be nice to have this glasses for an orientation system with further possibilities.
When Should I Visit?
“When Should I Visit? finds the least busy time to visit the museums, galleries and theatres of London. It states the quietest day and provides a glanceable graph to judge the relative popularity of different days. The site is intended to show the data in the simplest possible way with no unnecessary detail.”
Design Work
In the middle of researching just a video about the HOW. I just switched through it.
Jon Kolko-Keynote: My Heart is in The Work from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.
The Museum of Possibilities
The Museum of Possibilities — a wonderful daylong pop-up installation inviting visitors to share their dreams and visions for the future of the space by jotting down their ideas on pieces of paper and attaching them to colorful balloons.
Read more: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/02/03/the-museum-of-possibilities/#ixzz1DetD7Vwl
Read more: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/02/03/the-museum-of-possibilities/#ixzz1DetD7Vwl
Maybe we could create a digital space for people where they could share their visions for the future social space in Dublin???
Implicit Personalisation
Worth a read, the ethics of personalisation and how we as designers must consider the use of implicit personalisation,
http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/360000/353380/p11-crawford.pdf?key1=353380&key2=7294347921&coll=DL&dl=ACM&CFID=9610141&CFTOKEN=62076535
Apple Files Patent for a Brand New Smart Bike
Forget about the next iPhone or an iPad as thin as paper, Apple is pedaling in another direction these days. Just a few days ago, the company filed a new patent for an advanced smart bike now in development. Fresh off the drawing boards, and not yet named (but how cool would iCycle be?), the new smart bike will allow cyclists to link up with one another, share pertinent course data, individual health stats and much, much more. So just as Apple’s i-gadgets have dramatically changed the way consumers interact with and experience hand held tech, could the same soon be said for the bicycle?
IKEA Designs the Ultra-Efficient Kitchen of the Future
What high-tech gizmos will we see in the kitchens of the future? IKEA may have the answers. The Swedish superstore recently drew up a concept kitchen for the year 2040, and it’s pretty wild — it features self-cleaning kitchen counters, 3D holographic displays, cabinets on rails, a “sixth-generation” iPad, remote-controlled ovens, and a host of ultra-efficient energy-saving systems.
Hashtags/Augmented Reality
Here's a quick sketch about how hashtags could be incorporated into our everyday experience. The user could access information/dialogue about the hashtags which relate to his/her surroundings. They could also add their own.
Augmented Reality
A new area emerging in Digital Media is Augmented Reality. An example of an iPhone App which uses this is shown above.
Built-In Electrical Wiring Could Directly Monitor Home Energy Use
Soon enough, your home electrical wiring could do more than just keep electronics running–it could also act as a giant information-transmitting antenna. Researchers at the University of Washington and the Georgia Institute of Technology have leveraged electrical wiring to power wireless sensors able to keep track of a building’s temperature, light level humidity, air quality–essentially any quantifiable building function. With help from the wiring, these sensors could run for decades on a single watch battery, meaning they could even be placed in hard-to-reach areas around the home.
Hashtags 2
This website http://hashtags.org/ tracks the frequency of hashtag terms on Twitter. It also displays the relevant tweets.
Hashtags
The best forms of personalised media gather information on the user without any direct input from him/her. This has already been done using facebook and twitter feeds (see flipboard.com) but maybe Hashtags could be used in some new way in everyday life.
Here is the Twitter definition of a hashtag:
Definition: The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages.
It has now spread beyond Twitter and is used on many websites as a way of locating information. For example TheJournal.ie create a new hashtag if they are covering a live debate or press conference. The coverage can then be followed on Twitter or the website.
Perhaps the Hashtag can have greater use in the everyday as a means of accessing information - click the hashtag on an item to discover info about it?
Here is the Twitter definition of a hashtag:
Definition: The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages.
It has now spread beyond Twitter and is used on many websites as a way of locating information. For example TheJournal.ie create a new hashtag if they are covering a live debate or press conference. The coverage can then be followed on Twitter or the website.
Perhaps the Hashtag can have greater use in the everyday as a means of accessing information - click the hashtag on an item to discover info about it?
‘Fire Department’ iPhone App Could Save Heart Attack Victims
New smartphone apps are a dime a dozen but few can have a life changing — or life saving — impact. But the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District outside San Francisco has created an app that does just that. Aptly named “Fire Department,” the application empowers iPhone users to provide life-saving assistance to someone suffering from a sudden heart attack. Any user who indicated that he knows CPR will be notified if someone nearby is having a heart attack and needs help.
We feel fine website
Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.
The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine's Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.
The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine's Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.
Intelligent fridge
Taken from the german institute of artificial intelligence
What are the aspects
-food shopping as new experience/new enjoyment
-more transparence
-we said: to reduce the waste of food
Functions
-shopping list
-personalized for every member of the house/family creates a "food-universe"
-looking for offers
-connected to the phone
-advices for the client in a new way
- intelligent shopping cart which knows the way through the mall (by the shopping list)
- comparing of products
- further informations
- influences of a produc to the environment
- origin of the product
- what things fit together (wine-meat)
-information about the stocking (vegetables, fruits, ....)
- ideas for recipes
question
-how is it possible to create such a system without a big need of time?
(people have less and less time because they are working.... but they still
like to EXPLORE/ENJOY food
Movies...
I think it could be interesting for the movie topic to
think also about how to analyze a film. This is just
a picture of a tool (ipad) to analyze books in a digital
way. But what's about a tool for movie analyzing?
This could be connected to a network which is about
sharing movies and information.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Web personalisation
Might be good to look at, explains the two different types of web personalisation. Kind of like active versus passive models.
What is personalisation?
Interesting definition of personalisation from social worker point of view, it is still related to disable people and their needs,this definition is not about technology but rather about people's needs. I think it is quite essential what they are talking here about. Personalisation is helping people to make their own choice, interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=what+is+personalisation&aq=f
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=what+is+personalisation&aq=f
Personalisation is everywhere
Personalize - Tell the world about you: what you sell on eBay, your interests... anything!
At Work - Microsoft again
That's intersting about work process. I meant more the process in an
office and not in a fabric, ...
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