Space, Place, and Place-making

ANDREA RESMINI & LUCA ROSATI Pervasive Information Architecture SPACE, PLACE, AND PLACEMAKING MALMÖ HÖGSKOLAN MAR 25 2010

Game of the goose boardgame, 19th century LET'S PLAY

think of experience as play

1999 1ST SCENARIO

Meet James. He wants to travel (Mh. Copenhagen. That seems a fun place to be) http://www.flickr.com/photos/ihateyou/2905684780/ JAMES WANTS TO TRAVEL

He's going for it (Let's hope the travel agency is open. Have to remember the hotel) HE WALKS http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourdon/3254328961/

He's going for it “Well, yes, you could buy a direct flight, but then ...” http://www.flickr.com/photos/dan4th/144369022/ HE TALKS

He's going for it “Of course we cannot provide you with a bus card now, but ...” http://www.flickr.com/photos/dan4th/144369022/ … AND TALKS

He gets to København Psst, he's here! “Excuse me? I'm looking for the Lille Havfrue Hotel? Excuse me?” HE TRAVELS http://www.flickr.com/photos/nagillum/3906910129/

Then he has maps and memories (Now, where did I put that map? Mh. And the pictures of the ...) http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillygwailo/3320816159/ HE GETS BACK

A totally scientific model, 1999 ??? ... user experience @#%! whew! process touch points or obstacles? THIS WAS JAMES' UX

2009 2ND SCENARIO

Meet Mario. He wants to travel (Mh. Malmö. And good prices. Going there) http://todaysseniorsnetwork.com/ MARIO WANTS TO TRAVEL

He's going for it (Oh come on! Damn site wouldn't let me buy a bus card?) HE BROWSES

He gets to Malmö Psst, he's here! “Pass me the map, will you? No, not Google, the ... Aww ...” http://www.flickr.com/photos/nagillum/3906910129/ HE TRAVELS

Then he has maps and memories (Now, where did I put that map? And the pictures of ...) Image: Media Heaven Ltd HE GETS BACK

A totally scientific model, 2009 @#%! whew! user experience process touch points or obstacles? THIS WAS MARIO'S UX

Game of the goose boardgame again, 19th century WASN'T THIS IT?

*click* talk *click* check-in choose search walk *click* browse save *click* switch jacques de vaucanson, 1737 … A GAME OF THE GOOSE?

a game is by definition a suboptimal but engaging way to achieve a goal: question is, do we have to play a rather tiresome game anytime we engage in complex experiences that bridge media and contexts? EXPERIENCE IS NOT A GAME

IS THIS HOW IT HAS TO BE?

2019? NTH SCENARIO

Meet Pranav. He wants to travel (Hey, seems like an interesting place. And it got four stars!) Pranav Mistry, Sixth Sense demo PRANAV WANTS TO TRAVEL

He's going for it (Let's ring the agency. And it got four stars!) Pranav Mistry, Sixth Sense demo HE TALKS

He's going for it (Now, get to check that web site and see who's around) Bruce Branit, World Builder HE BROWSES

Being delayed (Mh. Flight is delayed. Can take it easy. Buy some souvenirs) Pranav Mistry, Sixth Sense demo HE TRAVELS

Then he has maps and memories (This one is ok. This one is not. Where are the ones at the museum?) Pranav Mistry, Sixth Sense demo HE GETS BACK

awesome, hu? THIS IS LIKE … WOW!

but the question is: who designs this? And how? A ROLE FOR IA?

THIS IS A LOT OF IA

AND THIS IS A LOT OF IA

AND THERE IS IA HERE TOO

AND WHAT ABOUT HERE

… AND HERE ...

the point is BUT WHAT'S THE POINT?

1 “cyberspace is not a place you go to but rather a layer tightly integrated into the world around us” Institute for the Future CYBERSPACE IS HERE

and this layer or layers is mostly information CYBERSPACE IS INFORMATION

2 products are becoming services, parts of ubiquitous ecologies UBIQUITOUS ECOLOGIES

we have to move from the design of artifacts to the design of processes ARTIFACT TO PROCESS

we have to move from the design of products to the design of experiences PRODUCT TO EXPERIENCE

we do not design interfaces we do not design single interactions we design cross-media experiences EXPERIENCE IS CROSS-MEDIA

we design with heuristics A METHODOLOGY

place-making reduction consistency correlation resilience HEURISTICS

place-making reduction consistency correlation resilience GROUNDING

place-making reduction consistency correlation resilience REFINING

the capability to help users reduce disorientation and increase legibility and wayfinding in digital, physical, and hybrid environments PLACE-MAKING

the capability to provide and sustain internal and external, in- context, on-task coherence CONSISTENCY

the capability of a human information interaction model to shape and adapt itself to specific users, needs, targets, and seeking strategies RESILIENCE

the capability to reduce the stress and frustration associated with choosing from an ever growing set of information sources, services, and goods REDUCTION

the capability to suggest relevant connections between pieces of information, services, users, and goods to help users achieve explicit goals or stimulate latent needs CORRELATION

SPACE AND PLACE

rhythm is the connection between time and space RHYTHM, TIME, SPACE

Little Thumb and his brothers LOST IN SPACE

Cinderella LOST IN TIME

space is the grounding concept for time space is the grounding concept for place EVERYTHING IS SPATIAL

space and place are different SPACE IS NOT PLACE

space is the base experience of our embodiment it is objective, impersonal, undifferentiated SPACE IS NOT PLACE

place includes, besides physical space, memories, experiences, and behavioral patterns associated with the locale it is personal, subjective, and communitarian PLACE IS NOT SPACE

THIS IS A PLACE

THIS IS NOT

social media and ubiquitous computing have escalated this sense of place and belonging on the Web THE WEB IS A PLACE

THIS IS A PLACE

BUT THIS IS NOT

spatial metaphors have always been applied to the Web: navigate, up, down, to be on, to be out, go to BEING ELSEWHERE

but the Web is not the first medium to have a necessity to develop a language for the representation of presence and embodiment MOVIES, GAMES, FINE ARTS

Masaccio, Payment of the Tribute SIMULTANEITY

Duchamp, Nude descending the stairs SEQUENCE

Miller, The Dark Knight SIMULTANEITY + SEQUENCE

LucasArts, Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle SPACE AS A STAGE

LucasArts, Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle MAPS AS THEATER

Nintendo, SuperMario SPACE AS CHALLENGE

Nintendo, SuperMario MAPS AS CHALLENGES

Snow, map of the area surrounding the Broad Street Pump SPACE AS CORRELATION

Ubisoft, Prince of Persia Sands of Time SPACE AS DISCOVERY

Irrational Games, Bioshock SPACE AS IMMERSION

Ubisoft, Myst IMMERSION CAN BE TRICKY

movies are intriguing: how come we do not (usually) get lost in movies? after all, we move around a lot MOVIES

Laurel & Hardy FILMING ON STAGE

If this is a movie, this guy is ... DEVELOPING A LANGUAGE ...

… exchanging glances with John Mellencamp … OF MEANING

Demme, Silence of the Lambs LANGUAGE CAN TRICK US

Tarantino, Pulp Fiction SPACE TIME PLACE TRICK US

@resmini d resmini Public space and private place on Twitter SPACE + PLACE ARE TRICKY

the languages the fine arts, movies and videogames have developed to convey the ideas of space, place and embodiment can provide us with clues as to how to successfully enact place-making on the Web CONCLUSIONS

the map is the territory and it's quickly extending to your fridge, connecting it with your doctor and with the supermarket care to design that before it designs us? CONCLUSIONS

Andrea Resmini & Luca Rosati Pervasive IA http://pervasiveia.com/ Blogs http://andrearesmini.com/ http://lucarosati.it/ Twitter @resmini @lucarosati THAT'S IT FOLKS

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