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Visualization... I LIKE IT!
I really really need to get into this "locative" stuff.. the research happening out there over location based services, awareness, games, the apps in development, some awesome stuff happening. Good and BAD.
Locative Media Terms
A few terms from Nicolas Nova's Locative Media: a literature review:
Awarness: the understanding of other's person's interaction with a shared workspace.
The awarness tool: The lack of information about the geographically-dispersed partners is addressed by providing users with tools that try to "recreate the information landscape of a real-world landscape
Locative media: every information about the physical location as well as other contextual cues. It can be decomposed into three awarness components: presence, location and direction.
Physical environment refers ta all the physical variables like location (absolute or relative) as well as conditions (e.g. light, temperature) or infrastructure (surrounding resources for communication, computation, task performance).
Human factor related context is structured into: information about the user, the user's social environment and the user's tasks.
Research on collaboration suggests that this cost has an important impact on how partners build a shared understanding of a situation when they have to work together.
Synchronous awarness: information about the present
Asynchronous awarness: information about the past
IPAD (Inter-Personal Awarness Device): the devices that can support this kind of awarness.
Spatial assumptions foster multiple levels of knowledge mutuality
---- from fab blog.
Another tasty bit, this time on Social Networks
Social Networking Deliver Irritability
In Dysfunctional relationships Jerry Michalski talks about relationship-building and -mining softwares, why they make him irritable and how to improve the situation:
- Helping groups meet and collaborate is a great cause, but why do we have to use so many different, incompatible services? (complexity)
- Making relationships explicit, available to any virtual passerby, creates subtle complications (explicitness)
- I can't really figure out what to do with the service (usability)
Social networks are not like clockwork mechanisms or income statements. They are full of human beings, with relationships, expectations, and prejudices, and therefore require a gentle hand from management. They do not teach enough of those skills in business schools, and they teach even fewer of them in engineering schools.
Here are three things that would improve the situation markedly:
- openness and integration among all these tools, so services interact smoothly and triple-, quadruple-, or even quintuple-entry of data vanishes.
- more training on how to manage social systems appropriately, so productive relationships can be enhanced, not disrupted; and >
- more emphasis on rethinking and improving the basic tools we use to express ourselves, so we cease thinking in 7-bit ASCII email, HTML, and PowerPoint, and start communicating better and building lasting resources together.
Just downloaded placelab, need to play with that.
