Major Studio 2, Interactivity:

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.

Course Fine Print

Download MajorStudio2.pdf

This Studio’s Objectives

1. To work hands-on with and build a common vocabulary for Electronic Toy Design, Interactive Installations, Wireless Technology, Online Experience and "Audiences," Socially-Driven Media Sharing, and "Participatory Culture."
2. To refine presentation and critique skills at the graduate level
3. To emphasize process and methods
4. To reinforce rigorous conceptual development and introduce a range of methods for the expression and articulation of ideas online, with toys, and in installations.
5. To explore forms of writing, including but not limited to critical writing, design briefs, self-assessment, personal statements, scenarios, project reviews, blog postings, blog commenting, link sharing, and emerging forms of online participation.
6. To establish your own voice as a creative author of works including text, performance, toy design, object making, installation design, online discourse, and evaluation.

Working Schedule (subject to change)

Jan 22
Discuss Class, Blogs, YouTube, and Arduino
Blog work.

Jan 25
Discuss YouTube, Look at People's work
Make a YouTube Account; Add 5 Favorites and Subscriptions.
Upload a Video.
Cross-link your blog and your YouTube; Cross link to everyone else's Blog and YouTube.

Jan 29
Discuss about Online Media Distrubution. Topics include: MySpace, MTV, Broadcast, Narrowcast, Podcast, Cultural Cohesion, The Medium the Message and the "filter."

Feb 1
Socially-drive distribution

Feb 5
Begin Reading about Arduino
Presentation of Arduino

Feb 8
Bring in: Toy, Camera, Seam-ripper, Scissors, and Screwdrivers
Take Apart Toys, Photograph Switches, Power source, Micros, Housing, Circuits, Stitching
Homework:
Publish and annotate your photos.

Feb 12
Read: Chapter 5-10 this week

Mike Leads Introduction about Processing for Arduino
We Look at your photos
Homework:
Do your first project on Arduino from examples

Feb 15
Presentations on Wii
Deconstructing the Wii
Homework:
Research and blog "how to make, interface, and or use the Wii

Feb 19 [presidents day, holiday]
Work in Groups Over Email
Order Parts

Feb 22
Lecture on Physical Computing and Interface
Lecture on Wireless Introduced
Work in Groups and Present Status at the end of class

Feb 26
Lecture on Physical Computing and Interface
Lecture on Wireless Introduced
Work in Groups and Present Status at the end of class

Mar 1
Lecture on Physical Interface
Present the status of your project
Work in groups

Mar 5
Present the status of your project
Work in groups

Mar 8
Physical "encasement" Construction and Redesigning Electronics

Mar 12
MidTerm
Present your work and group's work

Mar 15
Present MidTerm

Mar 19- Mar 22
Spring Break

Mar 26- May 7th
Present and Work on your Concepts

Work on you Final Papers, as well as, online documentation

Lecture and speakers come in to discuss Interaction and Experience Design as well as Online Participation and Media Sharing

May 10
Turn In Papers and Concepts

May 14
Final Presentations and Crits
Last Class