Major Studio 2, Interactivity:

Online Collaboration and Organizing Assignment

Identify a problem and a collaborative solution with how you, or humans in general, organize their knowledge/life/work or leisure. In other words answer the two questions: I wish the net had a site that ____________. This would allow _______________.

Answer these questions 3 times. Provide the problem/solution pairs. Write as much or as little as needed to explain your concept.
Due April 2nd.

This American Life, kids and cameras animation

Link: This American Life

Tom Kelly, The Ten Faces of Innovation

The roles people play, or can play, in innovation.
Link: The Ten Faces of Innovation » The Ten Faces.

podcast interview with Dr. Nora Gunn:
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail821.html

Schedule for 2nd Half of Semester

This third quarter of class will focus emergent paradigms for social collaboration via online interaction and mobile applications.

March 26th
Review and discuss videos.
Homework:
Upload final video edit to all team members blogs.
Reading
"We Are the Web"  http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html
Homework:
Write 3-6 paragraphs about your critique of this article.  The first half of your response should address what in the article agreed with. The second half of your response would include what you did not agree with, and why.

March 29th
+  Speaker: Kenyatta Cheese
Trends in online interaction. De-centralized media explained. Group-centered design.
Homework:
Online Interaction assignment assigned
Reading [6 hours of reading] :
Clay Shirky - Communities, Audiences, and Scale.
http://shirky.com/writings/community_scale.html
Rocketboom on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketboom

Watch these episode:
http://www.rocketboom.com/stories/rb_07_mar_28
http://www.rocketboom.com/stories/rb_07_mar_29

Howard Rheingold - Technologies of Cooperation
http://www.rheingold.com/cooperation/Technology_of_cooperation.pdf

April 2nd:
+  Speaker: Andrew Baron and Joanne Colan from Rocketboom
Building Audiences. Understanding online culture. The history, present, and future of Rocketboom and video-blogging.
Reading:
Howard Rheingold - Technologies of Cooperation
http://www.rheingold.com/cooperation/Technology_of_cooperation.pdf
Homework:
Pick a concept from your list.  Answer some of the following questions:
Describe all the potential users for your applications.  Describe why they would interact with your project.  Explain, how they would interact with your concept.  Explain, why they would continue to interact with your concept. Lastly, describe how our shared culture, or any particular culture(s), could potentially change because of your concept.  Use concepts from Technologies of Cooperation if to help you articulate your ideas. 
500-1000 words.

April 5th
+ Disucss Technologies of Cooperation
+ 5 Min Presentations of your concept and thougths
+ Final Project introduced and explained
Homework:
Work on Final Project
Reading/Podcast:
Space and Place @ Where 2.0

Mark Hansen - Slogging - Citizen-Initiated Sensing
http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~cocteau/talks/siam.pdf [ It's a PowerPoint presentation.  You should be able to flip through this one and get the idea.]

April 9th
+ Speaker: Anthony Townsend talks in class.
Topics include: How "Space and Place" meet the Internet and mobile applications. We discuss mobile applications and location-based applications.  Look at trends that occur when mobile technology converges with social networking/web 2.0/and user-created content.
Homework:
Work on articulating your Final
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The mobile discussion:
"I am here? Where are you?"
"I've been here.  Where have you been?"
"I've experienced this there.  What have you experienced there?
Social mapping of the space, via the net.   Social mapping in the form of personal story, journal, photos/video, linkages, and etc....
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April 12th - May 3rd
Work on Finals

May 7th and May 10th
Final Presentations in Critique

May 14th
Last day wrap-up and establish further research.

We Are the Web

Link: Wired 13.08: We Are the Web.

We Are the Web The Netscape IPO wasn't really about dot-commerce. At its heart was a new cultural force based on mass collaboration. Blogs, Wikipedia, open source, peer-to-peer - behold the power of the people. By Kevin KellyPage 1 of 5 next »

Space and Place

Where 2006

Torkington, Eisnor, Nolan, Peterson

Download MP3 |
Link to it: Permalink
The web has redefined the word
"community." In some ways it has made a user's physical location
irrelevant. Recently, however, a fascination with physical place has
engendered a new crop of applications aimed at helping users and social
networks to map themselves on the web. These apps lets users identify
and annotate places, see where their friends are, and link physical
locations with other web-based information and technologies.
Link: IT Conversations: Social Data Face-Off.
Notes: Users have insentives to post their location/journal data when that data is as open as possible. B/c of technical limits it is very difficult to do user-centered design. There needs to be more user-centered design.

Google Desktop Blog, PC Apps and Game Dev Made Easy.

Link: Inside Google Desktop.

The Long Take

Link: Long take - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A long take is an uninterrupted shot in a film which lasts much longer than the conventional editing pace either of the film itself or of films in general, usually lasting several minutes. It can be used for dramatic and narrative effect if done properly, and in moving shots is often accomplished through the use of a dolly or Steadicam. Some films, like Rope, Russian Ark, Before Sunset, Elephant, and Irréversible are composed entirely of long takes, while others like Goodfellas, Children of Men, Boogie Nights, Touch of Evil, The Player are well-known for a specific long take or two within otherwise more conventionally edited films.

Link: YouTube - Touch of Evil.

Link: YouTube - AnimaLand.

Link: YouTube - TED : Jeff Han (2006) Ideas Worth Sharing.

User-centered design -via Wikipedia

Link: User-centered design - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

In broad terms, user-centered design (UCD) is a design philosophy and a process in which the needs, wants, and limitations of the end user of an interface or document are given extensive attention at each stage of the design process. User-centered design can be characterized as a multi-stage problem solving process that not only requires designers to analyze and foresee how users are likely to use an interface, but to test the validity of their assumptions with regards to user behaviour in real world tests with actual users. Such testing is necessary as it is often very difficult for the designers of an interface to understand intuitively what a first-time user of their design experiences, and what each user's learning curve may look like.

The chief difference from other interface design philosophies is that user-centered design tries to optimize the user interface around how people can, want, or need to work, rather than forcing the users to change how they work to accommodate the system or function.

it's far more easier to make something complex than it is to make it simple

simple and elegant designs are not simply made.