2005-11-12

Day 2, talk notes


TOKYO BLUES: the city seen through one material
Nurri Kim

[beautiful photos of blue tarp used in tokyo. cf http://interconnected.org/home/2005/10/28/blue_is_the_colour ]

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Jack Schulze

[comics, diagram, metal]

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Artists and Designers Giving New Meanings to 'the Internet of Things'
Regine Debatty

a favourite blog: 'RFID in Japan'
http://ubiks.net/local/blog/jmt/stuff3/

rfid are now being used in sushi restaurants to tag food
[cf, the use of pdas in wagamamas. when we have contact lenses that paint reality, they'll be used in restaurants and factories first, in the pursuit of efficiency. i give it 5 years, and another 3-5 for recreational use.]

project named "Deal Me In"
http://people.interaction-ivrea.it/s.pia/thesis/
playing card plus rfid interface to exploring the digital archive
use cards for pictures, put down a chip to select a year, etc. there is a card called 'print'. [and this is why global address schemes are a problem, because these are the way people really want to relate to their stuff.]

some of these projects, the rfid is controversial, and that's the point. with others, the rfid could be replaced with any other technology.

[i had a question about the porn in rfids. have we really moved from teledildonics to surveillance? where are the sex toy applications of rfids? given timo and nokia's touch research, after all.]

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Seeing fit
Elizabeth Goodman

intel have a term "ecosystem enabled."

[liz is looking at fitness.]

great diagram
"Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, CDO"
great maps of where people are seriously unfit or obese in the USA.

it was presented to liz as a public health issue.

herbert spencer, "survival of the fitness"

fitness sums up some very complex, some very unpleasant views.

gym machines vs dance dance revolution

economic models are different in gyms and arcades

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Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich? Wattenberg Wattenberg Wattenberg Wattenberg.
Eric Rodenbeck & Mike Migurski

Dumb Gestures, Vito Acconci

a career out of saying very simple things but actually *doing* them.

Easy explanations, eg Flick
Meet the audience more than halfway (there's no big concept to grasp, like much architecture)
Dumb is difficult

classics: wattenberg's map of the market

talking about doing mappr: one of the comments received was "oh, somebody finally did this" -- there's a fallow ground that everyone knows. people are thinking about flickr api and geo applications, say. it's a race to implement the idea.

nice idea: web 2.0 mashup matrix. web service against web service, let's see what mashups are still to be done. "i was really upset when i saw this. it was like i was colouring in the gaps in tim o'reilly's world."

with acconci studio:

physical approach to the interface (working with architects): "wouldn't it be nice if the interface relaxed when you weren't touching it?"

nice tag: "make a world then poke a hole in it"

this is a really good, flash, tag-based photo/project navigation and viewing system. really well done.

capspotting:
studio.stamen.com/cabspotting/dev/client.html

big map of san francisco which is cab data over 4 hours, which derives the roads. it's live!

data visualisation is now getting an easy thing to do. it's also cool to do at the moment.

[so: there's another thing for the list. data visualisation, automated data mining, and computing power that does facial or voice recognition.]

"time and certainty are two things that are hard to show"

gelertner's lifestreams: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/lifestreams.html

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"Nostalgia for things east" (a German word which means this)
Molly Steenson

"the scene of east german design was survival. there wasn't much of anything."

designers had to be on projects; projects had to be tied to industrial output.

there is an ongoing nostalgia. is this bad?

[i wonder it's wanting to have purpose.]

troubling things: a culture *did* disappear. no really good oral histories were done. (although maybe they do exist.)

there's a daily life that is no longer.

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constraint and restraint / in design for the tiny:/ the four mobile truths
John Poisson

mobile applications are constrained. different handsets are so different, operators and networks impose business models.

mobile apps are like haiku.

[and 4 haiku based around the 4 noble truths of buddhism.]

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mike's walking introducting includes a sped-up video looking out the side of a bus. there's little traffic, just buildings, and street furniture, and slowing down and speeding up. at this speed, the buildings look really 3d. active viewing.