Technical, Tangible, Social (Xerox Research Center)
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A version of my "technical, tangible, social" talk, given at Xerox Research Center in Webster, NY, August 2009.
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- 4. “One day we will look back with embarrassment on this era when all of our virtual experiences were trapped behind a screen. This advance will have great implications for the role of games within society, and the wider possibilities of tangible game experiences could make the word ‘game’ insufficient to describe what we are doing.” - Game design legend Masaya Matsuura “One day we will look back with embarrassment on this era when all of our virtual experiences were trapped behind a screen. This advance will have great implications for the role of games within society, and the wider possibilities of tangible game experiences could make the word ‘game’ insufficient to describe what we are doing.” - Game design legend Masaya Matsuura
- 5. “One day we will look back with embarrassment on this era when all of our virtual experiences were trapped behind a screen. This advance will have great implications for the role of computing within society, and the wider possibilities of tangible computing experiences could make the word ‘computing’ insufficient to describe what we are doing.”
- 14. Flickr: Patrick Barber Flickr: Tim Duckett
- 23. RIT OPL: Page to Pub
- 30. LSC Projects: Social Genius
- 32. Picture the Impossible:A city-based adventure game Created bythe RIT Lab for Social Computing andthe Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
- 33. Can you picture an entire community coming together to play a game? A game that helps them learn about their city? A game that encourages them to support local charities? It may sound impossible, but we don’t think it is. And we’re asking you to join us in picturing the impossible…
- 34. Intro Animation
- 36. SocialCollaborationProject:Foodlink The Watchmaker:Boys & Girls Club The Marquis:Golisano Children’s Hospital
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Editor's Notes
- Obviously we care about the technical—we wouldn’t be at a conference on Information Technology if we didn’t recognize its importance.But we care about the tangible, as well, even (or perhaps especially!) in the context of the technical—the iPhone is an obvious example. It feels good. It looks good. We want to touch it, hold, caress it. (The Google phone? Not so much.)Apple understands the importance of the design of physical objects—Jonathan Ive’s role in the company is evidence of that. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitcowan/731269699
- We’re learning that objects can be both beautiful and functional, that not all the information has to be served up in endless piles of text. We can get information in an ambient, unobtrusive form—even from technology-based systems. (We’ve always done this in the world around us.)Ambient orb, cube, home joule
- RFID reader, with RFID “stamps” for items that don’t already have them. A “razor-blade model” for technology revenue?
- Once things can interact with the Internet and with each other, they become inherently social objects. Increasingly, the technology to create these kinds of social objects is becoming affordable and usable.
- “In conference call noone can hear you knit” – by permission of Patrick Barber, http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollyandpatrick/1908914304/“Knitting” – CC Licensed by Tim Ducket, http://www.flickr.com/photos/tim_d/558954300/ (need larger version if there is one available)
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- Page2PubTakes web pages and allows you to compile them into a print-friendly booklet. Being piloted with wikis first, but usable for a variety of websites when finished. One of the most popular exhibits at RIT’s Imagine festival this year.
- Intro Animation (click to play)We’ll add an “RSVP” link that will take the user to a login/register screen.
- All these paper models were created by Elouise. Some of them will be papercraft models printed in the paper so that people can create their own.
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- One weekend puzzle or activity, probably a crossword puzzleOne weekday puzzle, sometimes collaborativeOne advertiser will receive 6 colx 2” full color print ads with each game$7000 for package (14 ads)