Minitex ILL Conference 2008

Slide 1: Forecasting the Future of Social Computing Elizabeth Lane Lawley Director, RIT Lab for Social Computing 5 May 2008 17th Annual Minitex ILL Conference

Slide 4: Gopher, ca. 1992

Slide 5: The Web, 1993

Slide 6: ICQ, 1997

Slide 7: Blogs, 2002

Slide 8: Social Networking Sites, 2002

Slide 9: Social Bookmarks, 2003

Slide 10: Social Photos, 2003

Slide 11: Continuous Partial Attention, 2004

Slide 12: IRC and “Backchannels” 2004

Slide 13: World of Warcraft, 2005

Slide 14: Gaming in Libraries, 2006

Slide 15: Hyper-Personal ‘News Feeds’

Slide 16: What’s coming?

Slide 17: Continuous Complete Attention hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom they.misled.us/dark-room

Slide 18: Ambient Displays

Slide 19: Ambient Presence

Slide 20: Mobile Phone Magic: Grand Central

Slide 21: Mobile Phone Magic: GOOG- 411

Slide 22: Mobile Phone Magic: Jott

Slide 23: Mobile Phone Magic: Barcodes

Slide 24: Backlash to the Tangible

Slide 25: RIT’s Library

Slide 26: Tech Knitters

Slide 27: Reclaiming Public Spaces

Slide 28: Pervasive Games/ARGs

Slide 29: Passively Multiplayer Online Gaming

Slide 30: http://www.42entertainment.com/see.html

Slide 31: context is k in g , n o t c o n te n t it ’ s a b o u t u n fe tte re d e x p e r ie n c e w h a t’ s th e im m e r s iv e e x p e r ie n c e w e ’ re c r e a t in g in p u b lic lib r a r ie s ? - S te p h e n Ab ra m

Slide 32: (from Andrew Hinton’s wonderful presentation on information architecture)

Slide 34: What Makes Us Happy? • satisfying work to do • the experience of being good at something • time spent with people we like • the chance to be a part of something bigger than ourselves

Slide 35: Yes, you can have my slides! mamamusings.net