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Travelling
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Pixelache / Matt Jones / 15.03.08
London:Helsinki
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Hello!
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Hello there. I’m Matt Jones, and I’m a designer who amongst other
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things used to live and work in Helsinki for Nokia working on
interface and interaction design.
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Even though I’d love to participate more fully in PixelAche, I can’t
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be there today with you as I just got off a plane from NYC, and
really don’t want to move for a while.
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Availbot!
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So, for a little while I thought I would send a replacement. My
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Availbot!
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The availbot is a small likeness of me that plugs into the USB port
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of a computer, and when I’m online or chatting to you, it would
stand to attention. When I’m not it would fall slack to the table.
This gives you some idea of the attention I’m giving our
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conversation, in the physical space you’re in.
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The availbot was created by a London design consultancy called Schulze
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& Webb for a project I was running while I was Nokia. Perhaps as revenge
they modelled it after a not particularly flattering picture of me!
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Sorry...
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But unfortunately I couldn’t send even a small plastic version of
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me there today. I really am travelling without moving anything
atomic.
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“Travel is fatal
to prejudice,
bigotry, and
narrow-
mindedness.”
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So, should we stop travelling? I would say not, but we have to find we allmaximise the e!cacy
So,pleasure of travel for minimum impact.
travelling has it’s disadvantages, I think ways to know. But, are
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and
we really going to stop doing it? I think not.
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I’m a cofounder and lead designer on Dopplr, which is a
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social tool for optimising travel.
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Travel = Broken
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Now, for most of us, it’s something quite di!erent.
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Could we do anything to make it a little better? We
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thought so.
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We wanted to engineer a little bit of this - cybernetic
This growth in personal informatics I believe (with many others, as detailed in those books) will lead
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to many downsides - seen and unforeseen - but also a large upside, in the increase of serendipity
serendipity.
in the world... (poster from ICA exhibition 1968)
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“Serendipity is
looking in a haystack
for a needle and
discovering a
farmer's daughter.”
Julius Comroe Jr.
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This is my favourite definition! Could we create a system
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that increased the happy little coincidences in your life
as your travel through the world, and as a result help you
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optimise your travels.
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I love this - I took it some years back at a museum in Sydney, Australia. For me it
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sums up what we really do with computers most often... Make models of things so
we can understand them better and moreover, spin them round, poke and prod
them until we find some optimal state.
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This diagram shows the ‘lightcone’ of the future
is about the future, which you can’t
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‘observer’ - Dopplr is about what happens if you have this view - and take it
social. The ability to remodel and optimise your travel plans based on those of
automate (yet)
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others. That’s why
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things approach and recede from you.
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Martin Hilpoltsteiner | http://www.recreating-movement.com
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via http://www.kottke.org/08/02/time-merge-media
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If we can make models of our future paths through space
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and time, and share them, we can see them in new ways
optimise them.
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So, let’s take a very quick look at it for those who haven’t
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come across it yet
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Here’s the main view I see once I’m logged in - it’s a very
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simple report of my upcoming trips
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This is a very important view - your journal of activity on
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Dopplr, showing the flows of information from you and
your connections on Dopplr.
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Each trip is the central ‘social object’ of Dopplr... Here’s my trip page for
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IxDA08 in Savannah, Georgia - aggregated here are nice things like the flickr
pictures I’d taken that trip, notes by me and friends of mine and stats about
travel here. But the main thing to look at is the ‘Coincidences’ block - showing
me the other people I share information with on Dopplr who were going to be
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there.
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We’re really happy we’ve been introduce this new
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feature - It’s in Beta at the moment and we’ll be
releasing it fully very shortly.
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This uses AMEE to calculate approximate values for the
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carbon dioxide expended in your travels, and allows
you to visualise this against your trips.
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Here’s a closer look, showing how you can interrogate
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this ‘carbon journal’ to understand the impacts of
longer and shorter trips. This is the very first, most
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basic version of what we want to do with this.
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Scales, not diet...
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We’re not currently linking through to things like
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carbon offsets. We prefer to leave actions like that up
to individuals. We’re the weighing scale not the diet...
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“Personal Informatics” already guide us in other efforts
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to ‘live better’ - by visualising behaviour and creating
feedback loops.
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We’d really like to design a ‘win state’ that encouraged
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thoughtfulness about travel and resources. For instance
the default setting of the Toyota Prius dashboard
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showing MPG, not MPH encouraging the ‘game’s win
state’ to be lowering the MPG...
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FTW!
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We’d really like to design a ‘win state’ that encouraged
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thoughtfulness about travel and resources. For instance
the default setting of the Toyota Prius dashboard
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showing MPG, not MPH encouraging the ‘game’s win
state’ to be lowering the MPG...
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We’re starting small...
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Really thought there’s no environmental alternative than
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to travel less, but we would like to help people make the
travel they do count. Coincidences can trim trips. We
want tonext?this helpful fuzziness in both time and
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space to allow people to optimise their trips so that
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perhaps they can reduce them.

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Really thought there’s no environmental alternative than
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to travel less, but we would like to help people make the
travel they do count. Coincidences can trim trips. We
want tonext?this helpful fuzziness in both time and
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space to allow people to optimise their trips so that
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perhaps they can reduce them.

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Really thought there’s no environmental alternative than
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to travel less, but we would like to help people make the
travel they do count. Coincidences can trim trips. We
want tonext?this helpful fuzziness in both time and
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space to allow people to optimise their trips so that
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perhaps they can reduce them.

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Martin Hilpoltsteiner | http://www.recreating-movement.com
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via http://www.kottke.org/08/02/time-merge-media
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If we can make models of our future paths through space
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and time, and share them, we can see them in new ways
optimise them.
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“The real voyage of
discovery consists
not in seeking new
landscapes but in
having new eyes.”
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So - our hope that is through examining travel through new eyes we can forge a new, responsible,
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sustainable and pleasurable golden age of travel.
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33.
Thanks!
mj@dopplr.com
http://www.blackbeltjones.com
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Pixelache / Matt Jones / 15.03.08
London:Helsinki
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thank you very much.
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