This presentation is being shared as a Core Conversation at 2014 SXSW Interactive: http://schedule.sxsw.com/2014/events/event_IAP24245. Many of us carry smartphones wherever we go. Increasingly, we are leaning on them as active and passive gathering devices of data and images. Google Glass and other recording devices bring the question further front and center—how is our recording and perpetually digitally checking in affecting our everyday lives? How are those check-ins and recordings shifting our being "present" in our shared Now and Here? Are we increasingly taking the opportunity to be digitally Elsewhere and not Present? How can we design locations and events to engage with a smartphone-embracing public?
17. Evidence for
unseen Others
•not present/HERE but
Near FUTURE
Sensory
engagement with
device content
•Not present but HERE
from near PAST
•ElseWHERE and
ElseWHEN
2 FACTORS:
PHOTOGRAPHY AS PERFORMANCE &
SENSORY CO-ATTENTION/PRESENCE
21. 2003: WORRIED ABOUT PRINTING
Digital Camera Ownership
20% of US Households
45% of US Internet HH
82% of digital camera users print photos at home
(InfoTrends Research Group)
22. 2011-2013: SHIFT TO MOBILE CAMERAS
• 2007: 100 million peak in digital cameras
• 2012: 98 million
• 2013: 30% drop to 63 million
• 2014: 20% drop forecast
• (Source: CIPA)
2013: est. 32% increase in smartphone
sales (source: IDC)
23. WE SHARE...A LOT
•Facebook: 250 billion photos
• 350 million uploads a day
•Flickr: 8 billion photos
•Instagram: 16 billion photos
•Tumblr: 50 billion posts
24. SOCIAL ROLES OF PERSONAL PHOTOS
Remembering
&Recall
Communication
& Identity
Self-
Presentation
Family Life
Negotiation
Sharing
Experiences
vs. Objects
Reconnect (a
la postcards)
Identity
Formation
25. EXPERIENCE AS EVIDENCE
Overheard at the Los Angeles Disney Concert Hall
when the usher asked the patron to not take a
picture:
“How can I show people that I am here if I
don’t have a picture?”
49. "See, you can't even sing
because you're too busy taping!"
Beyonce told a fan in July.
"I'm right in your face baby, You
gotta seize this moment baby!
Put that damn camera down!“
-- USA Today, 2013
65. HOW DO WE DESIGN FOR LIVE
SPACES?
Implied Other
Twitterwalls –
awkward, pschophantic
Virtual attendance
Signage – providing
context, implied
metadata
68. CAN WE FOLD TIME?
•Bring our past contexts and stories
• History Pin
• History Harvest
• Findery
•Leave our current stories for future
collaborators
Chronesthesia (Tulving) or subjective timeReconnecting over devices?Bringing the experience to others?Separating from those they are with Live?
How are we Present if we are always checking in to other information and places? Are we shifting our energies to auto-documenting our activities through pictures and other actions to the detriment of the activity and connections that we are experiencing live?Photos outbound having a priority to live interactionSensory interruptions in local/socialFocus – closing off sensory input
Snapchat, Instagram, FlickrHow are we blowing up time and space through digital images and messages, blowing it up and turning it into shiftable bits of data so we are making different decisions with its Time and Place?
…which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by people as art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.”
400 billion pictures globally 2013 - IDC
Instagram.com source: http://instagram.com/press/Facebook:Mashable, September 2013Flickr: Yahoo event, May 2013Tumblr: Yahoo event
Role of photography in personal livesRemembering - Stuhlmiller, 1996Identity – Barthes 1981Sontag 1973
Establishment of being digitally important -- whose camera is most important? Your camera is MORE important than MY live experience. Van Dijck 2008 – we are creating collaborative memories….
Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/president-obama-poses-funeral-selfie-article-1.1543188President Obama with Denmark's Prime Minister HelleThorning-Schmidt and Britain's David Cameron
Behavior previously tethered to desk and time at desk – moved to living room and to everywhere
StudyAnxietyForced comparisons of my life vs yoursSherry Turkle, Alone TogetherAlready a study in Computers in Human Behavior, Przybylski et al. 2013