Locative Media and Responsive EnvironmentsIMD Seminar 22 April 2009LFG/JW

Interface

Everyware

"...experimental programs seem to indicate that molecular electronics is a possible avenue to overcoming the limits of increasing density in silicon chips, while ushering in an era of computers 100 billion times as fast as a Pentium microprocessor; this would make it possible to pack the computing power of a hundred 1999 computer workstations into a space the size of a grain of salt. Based on these technologies, computer scientists envisage the possibility of computing environments where billions of microscopic information-processing devices will be spread everywhere 'like pigment in the wall paint.' If so, then computer networks will be, materially speaking, the fabric of our lives.“ -Manuel Castells, Rise of the Network Society, 53.

"...experimental programs seem to indicate that molecular electronics is a possible avenue to overcoming the limits of increasing density in silicon chips, while ushering in an era of computers 100 billion times as fast as a Pentium microprocessor; this would make it possible to pack the computing power of a hundred 1999 computer workstations into a space the size of a grain of salt. Based on these technologies, computer scientists envisage the possibility of computing environments where billions of microscopic information-processing devices will be spread everywhere 'like pigment in the wall paint.' If so, then computer networks will be, materially speaking, the fabric of our lives.“ -Manuel Castells, Rise of the Network Society, 53.

"...experimental programs seem to indicate that molecular electronics is a possible avenue to overcoming the limits of increasing density in silicon chips, while ushering in an era of computers 100 billion times as fast as a Pentium microprocessor; this would make it possible to pack the computing power of a hundred 1999 computer workstations into a space the size of a grain of salt. Based on these technologies, computer scientists envisage the possibility of computing environments where billions of microscopic information-processing devices will be spread everywhere 'like pigment in the wall paint.' If so, then computer networks will be, materially speaking, the fabric of our lives.“ -Manuel Castells, Rise of the Network Society, 53.

Ubiquitous Computing

Pervasive Computing

Pervasive ComputingDistributed at all scalesInteroperableCommonplace

Distributed at all scales

Interoperable

Commonplace

Standards

Emergent

Christmas

December 25th, 1990

"I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The ‘intelligent agents’ people have touted for ages will finally materialize." -Tim Berners-Lee

Early InternetBasic WebWeb 2.0

Standards

Emergent

Semantic Web + Ubicomp =

Internet of Things

First Gen

Passive Things

AR ToolkitQR Code (Japan, China, UK)Datamatrix(USA DOD, Germany)Visual CodesD-touchSpotcode

QR Codes: Survey of recent projectsAdd to FriendsQR Code Facebookmashup“Add to Friends” is a Facebook application that enables users to add friends by snapping photos of custom QR codes associated with Facebook profiles. Facebook app URL: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=21352510322More info: http://www.etre.com/blog/2008/02/facebook_add_to_friends_qr_code_t_shirt/

QR Codes: Survey of recent projectsP8TCHVelcro-backed QR-code URL patch“Think of it as a TinyURL you can wear. The QR Code on the p8tch is a URL. If you scan the code with your iPhone, Mobile Safari will take you directly to that URL. If it's a Google Maps link, your iPhone will take you directly to the map. If it's a YouTube link, you'll see the movie fullscreen. Cool, right?”More info: http://p8tch.com/

QR Codes: Survey of recent projectsSemapedia.orgQR Code Wikipedia mashup“Our goal is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the right information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space.”More info: http://www.semapedia.org/

QR Codes: Survey of recent projectsPet Shop Boys - IntegralQR Code-enriched music video/activism initiative“The QR Code links in the video are a catalogue of online content about issues of civil liberties, as well as links that will give you the opportunity to get involved in campaigning against the erosion of our personal freedom.”More info: http://www.petshopboys.co.uk/browser.aspx?page=petheads.integral

QR Codes: Survey of recent projectsKaywa Pixel ScarfFashion accessoryWearing a QR code confers the wearer with mystery and geekitude, signaling social niche position on both sides of the scanning-moment.More info: http://lendorff.kaywa.com/

Related tagging/mobile/ubicomp projectsSpellbinderImage-recognition tagging/mobile AR “invisible grafitti” “Scottish researchers are turning to camera phones to help bridge the virtual and real worlds.Using image-matching algorithms the researchers have found a way to adorn the real world with digital content.The technology has already been used to create a guide of Edinburgh that allows people to find virtual artworks placed around the city using their mobile.” More info: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6938244.stmProject page:http://blue.caad.ed.ac.uk/branded/stageone/

Second Gen

Active Things

Standards

Emergent

New Relationships

Bruce Sterling

Spimes

plannabletrackablefindablerecyclableuniquely identifiedgenerate digital histories

plannable

trackable

findable

recyclable

uniquely identified

generate digital histories

Environments

Sensing

Profiling

Enabling

Emergent?

“Can an intelligent house fall in love with the house next door,” asks Gold. “Can they have baby houses? Is an architect a trained “womb” for houses, or more crudely, is an architect how a house makes another house? Does an architect feel like she/he is violating fundamental forces of evolution if she/he does not include the latest new technology in the house she/he next gives birth to? Do you believe in progress? Is a suburban house of today better than a terrace house in London in 1850 which was better than a thatched country cottage in 1700 which was better than the tepees and mud huts that Columbus found in the New World? Is the house that Donald Trump lives in better than the house you live in? If you were an architect and you designed an intelligent house, would the house’s own happiness matter to you? If the couple that bought the house you designed got a divorce, do you think you should be libel for damages?” -Rich Gold

Design Process

Brute force

Modularity

Too Literal

The New Actual/The New Virtual

Freedom has been obliterated, liquidated by liberation; truth has been supplanted by verification; the community has been liquidated and absorbed by communication … Everywhere we see a paradoxical logic: the idea is destroyed by its own realization, by its own excess. -Jean Baudrillard