This week we had to search far a space to missuse. We originally though of an outdoor location like a park, but it turned out the experience of exploring this space in winter was quite different then in summer.
We finally came up with a simple but original idea , by choosing the EV building's elevator. Our idea of missusing the space would be by emphasasing the lazyness aspect or just making people stick inside of the elevator, instead of getting of at their floor.
The most consistant idea is to project a film on the walls of the elevator if possible, placing chairs & giving away some popcorn. We have pretty much the main idea, we now need to focus on the details.
P.S.: I am in team with Katia, Dora & Jaywon.
Friday, February 9, 2007
Friday, February 2, 2007
We make money not art
Peer Pressure
Peer Pressure is a series of devices that as for function to make the user look popular to the eyes of his fellow working colleagues.
Peer Pressure propose 3 devices :
- « Popular
- This cell phone as for only function to beep at regular intervals so it appears you just received a text message.
- « The Fast typing Key board »
- This keyboard is design to create multiple sounds of key typed so it would appear your typing speed is actually faster than it is. This only woks for the sounds the subterfuge would be easily revealed if some one looked at you typing.
- “Positive Printer”
- This device it to help create positive rumours about you in the office. It prints out a series of fake positive emails mixed with real emails. Those positive emails consist of : invitation to exclusive parties, requests from the press or producers who fell in love with your new projects, etc. When your colleagues peek at your emails they will surely get the gossip going.
- That they are preoccupied by the opinion of the others surrounding them. Enough to fake a more active social life.
- Since the devices are not constructed in a way to cover their real purpose (wich is to make one popular) if the user wants to preserve the image of his fake self, he will have to lie a lot about the real function of these devices. It may be a critique saying that you would need to lie over your already false image to keep it intact, seemly plausible.
- The user will never feel popular by using these devices, he will only appear to be. Maybe these devices will create social opportunities like a raise or invitations to parties, but if it doesn’t the user will only look popular, while feeling unpopular.
Why are most of these devices designed for regular office environment ?
- I would think that the work place s the location where you go every day of the week and where social interactions are required.
- It is also the location where it would be the easiest to install such devices and the most profitable.
If it were to be placed on the market, what would be the impact of such devices ?
1. I think it might set the standards of how some one’s popularity must look in public.
Who is not worried about their appearances ?
- This I cannot answer with certitude
- Anyhow, only those who feel they fail to be socially active would consider using such devices. I would think.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Dysfunctional Space
The Space we choose is the Hospital.
Part of my job for this 15mins presentation was to create some schematics of a fictional hospital.
1st Schematic is a normal map naming the locations. Very simplified ^_^
2nd Schematic shows in green symbol where you can use a cell phone safely, while in the red zone it might be dangerous for the electronic equipement.
3rd schematic is a bit cynical, because it shows the mortality proportion in those locations of the hospital where they failed to fulfil the purpose of the hospital wich is the cure people. The closer to red the colors are te mor death occur in this particular part of the hospital.
Green = Almost none
Yellow = Rare
Orange = Sometimes
Red = Often
4th schematic is simple the red shows where you are not allowed to smoke while the green shows where you can smoke. Basically, you can only smoke outside.
Part of my job for this 15mins presentation was to create some schematics of a fictional hospital.
1st Schematic is a normal map naming the locations. Very simplified ^_^
2nd Schematic shows in green symbol where you can use a cell phone safely, while in the red zone it might be dangerous for the electronic equipement.
3rd schematic is a bit cynical, because it shows the mortality proportion in those locations of the hospital where they failed to fulfil the purpose of the hospital wich is the cure people. The closer to red the colors are te mor death occur in this particular part of the hospital.
Green = Almost none
Yellow = Rare
Orange = Sometimes
Red = Often
4th schematic is simple the red shows where you are not allowed to smoke while the green shows where you can smoke. Basically, you can only smoke outside.
Chapter One and Five of Interaction Design
5.1 by Dora
Interaction design is mainly focused on computer related commodities, which are centered on use. In designing these types of products there must be special attention on defining the use of them, being computational products. Many terms have been assigned to these types of products, such as "computational artefacts" (Suchman 1987), "Computer things" (Janlert) (A term from the Swedish word "datorsaker", these are according to preference, however the author chooses to call them "Computational things". In short, essentially computational in it's base.
As much as something is computational, it should not be considered more interactive than something non-computational such as an ordinary piece of furniture. The importance is based on what they do, how they interact with us.
Modern technology simply serves to implement ideas into something new. Many objects have been "re-invented" by it, such as the digital camera, which delivers photos almost instantly. Also, the CD player, and the digital piano are examples as well. In a way, technology tends to blend in unnoticed, and once it stops, or breaks down, that is when we recognize its importance.
Electricity and computation can be easily compared. One may use electricity to play an instrument, thus we are using a representation of it. When we are running a computation device, we are also using a representation of this technology.
It is imperative to remember that as we design, we are interpreting an object’s actions, and we are creating a new concept to it. We may think that it is simply trading an analog system for a digital one, such as an acoustic guitar transformed into an electric one. However, it may become more than just a switch in technology. Using the digital camera example once again, many aspects of it have changed from the film version, such as the display, which has become more useful to the user than the viewfinder, giving a better visual sample. It has changed our social behaviours around the action of taking pictures. We can now gather friends to view the snapshots right on the spot, instead of waiting for the film to be developed as well as printed. It may be said that these changes are unconscious decisions, which were simply meant to create a more advanced technology.
Computation changes the way we see and interact with an object. It is also an important element of interaction design. It is part of the basic construction. An understanding of all the constructive elements of interactive design is essential, more specifically, understanding computation, (programming, electronics and so on).
5.2 Computational technology is a design material -Jaewon
The article, Computational technology is a design material, mainly talks about how computational technology can be a design material. It first explains what material is. Then it explains what computational technology is and why it is an important material and also, a design material.
Material is what is needed to build an object in use. The first example brought up was a mobile phone. From a design perspective, if we assume it is built out of metal or plastic, it would suggest that a mobile phone is nothing more than a box containing some electronic circuits. However, the rest, it says, is what really makes it into a phone-neutral technology. It is clear that programs builds a mobile phone in use, thus programs are material, it says.
Computational technology is what is needed to build programs, mechanisms to execute these programs, interface mechanisms and technologies to display the execution of programs. As piano needs the key, the hammer, the string, the oscillation of a string to build a piano in use, PDA needs an LCD-screen, IC-circuits, plastic housing, an LCD-pen, electric current, programs and program-executions. All these build PDA and we call them materials. We set up a mechanism for the execution of programs, a hardware interface and we write program code to be executed. The material we really work with in the design process is best described using the term “computational technology”. The material itself that really builds a thing as a computational thing shows itself only in actual use, it says.
To explain the theory more specifically, the authors, Lars Hallnäs and Johan Redström, compare computational technology and compositional technology of music. When composing music, the actual compositional traces left are written instructions on how to perform the music, how to build its appearance. As design material computational technology is material in the same sense as compositional technology is material in composing music. In order to test an object, we need to execute programs to have look at how the material builds the given thing.
Computational technology is conceptual material. It is absent in a certain sense, it only presents conceptually. As music depends on instrumental performance, a computational thing depends on spatial material for its appearance. Interaction design thus involves a subtle composing in time. To make advances in interaction design practice, it requires rhythm, a central feature of any composition-in-time. A great potential for investigating and using rhythm in interaction design lies in the combination of the temporal qualities of computational technology with the spatial qualities of other design materials. By investigating how different materials can be used in the design of computational things, we open new possibilities for imposing rhythm in interaction design. When we combine the possibilities with crafting temporal form inherent in the computational material with the properties of other design materials, we find very rich possibilities for expressive design.
5.3 & 5,4 -Darketc 1/12/07, 11:30am
5.3
We have to built in the interactive designs not only the programming and programs to make it function in an actual sense, but also we must program is so that it does what we intend it to do. Because more often then not the electronic devices do not do what we intended of them to do. In the article they mention the “Cruise system” in a car and how they were worried about the correctness of the system in regard to what the user intended. As for the “Cruise system” all devices of the Interactive Design need control-function and control-interaction. So Interactive Design is not only about functionally but also usability of a device/product. Both aspects have to be design on the blue prints even before thinking about production.
5.4
Function: What it does as we use it ?
Behaviour : How it does it ?
Interaction is more related to a product’s behaviours, then it’s function. Computational devices tend to act and therefore creating an interaction. The example given is the old engine car compared to our contemporary computational cars. It is not the function that differentiate the two, it is rather their behaviours, while the old engine car would overheat easily, new computational car distribute the heat in an evenly fashion (I would think) Because the interface of the computational cars was developed as well as it’s functions, it respect more of what we intend a car to be doing.
What is a Digital Nomad ?
To me a digital nomad would be an individual surrounding itself mostly with interactive devices and choosing one device over another depending on it’s behaviours rather then on it’s functionality. To me a Digital Nomad is not an individual of the future, they exist in the present. Anyone who is constantly looking for new gizmo's or trying to replace the old ones with newer version is in my book a Digital Nomad. It is almost as if technology is necessary for this individual to survive, they need to move from one piece of technology to another just like the nomads to change of location when the resources rarefy.
X-Box:
What differentiate an X-Box 360 from the old X-Box ? I would believe that it serves the same function then it’s predecessor, but it has a ton of new features and there fore interact differently thus behaving differently. What would be the function of an X-Box, they describe it as an home-entertainment system, it is no longer a gaming console like the Atari, Nintendo or Sega console. The X-Box can now replace your DVD player and other electronic devices. It is no more only gaming entertainment, it tries to surpass every other type of home entertainment and put it all in a box. What makes an X-Box is not neutral, it as been designed to serve a purpose and more often then not it will be used to serve the purpose it as been built for, a simple example would be the X-Box controller built primarily for right-handed, thus giving the left-handed player a disadvantage ( I would believe).
Xbox: Illustrations
(Dora)
http://shutter.trancefixion.org/marker.jpg
(Jaewon)
http://hybrid.concordia.ca/~sasooab/cart453/interact_design.jpg
(Etienne)
Interaction design is mainly focused on computer related commodities, which are centered on use. In designing these types of products there must be special attention on defining the use of them, being computational products. Many terms have been assigned to these types of products, such as "computational artefacts" (Suchman 1987), "Computer things" (Janlert) (A term from the Swedish word "datorsaker", these are according to preference, however the author chooses to call them "Computational things". In short, essentially computational in it's base.
As much as something is computational, it should not be considered more interactive than something non-computational such as an ordinary piece of furniture. The importance is based on what they do, how they interact with us.
Modern technology simply serves to implement ideas into something new. Many objects have been "re-invented" by it, such as the digital camera, which delivers photos almost instantly. Also, the CD player, and the digital piano are examples as well. In a way, technology tends to blend in unnoticed, and once it stops, or breaks down, that is when we recognize its importance.
Electricity and computation can be easily compared. One may use electricity to play an instrument, thus we are using a representation of it. When we are running a computation device, we are also using a representation of this technology.
It is imperative to remember that as we design, we are interpreting an object’s actions, and we are creating a new concept to it. We may think that it is simply trading an analog system for a digital one, such as an acoustic guitar transformed into an electric one. However, it may become more than just a switch in technology. Using the digital camera example once again, many aspects of it have changed from the film version, such as the display, which has become more useful to the user than the viewfinder, giving a better visual sample. It has changed our social behaviours around the action of taking pictures. We can now gather friends to view the snapshots right on the spot, instead of waiting for the film to be developed as well as printed. It may be said that these changes are unconscious decisions, which were simply meant to create a more advanced technology.
Computation changes the way we see and interact with an object. It is also an important element of interaction design. It is part of the basic construction. An understanding of all the constructive elements of interactive design is essential, more specifically, understanding computation, (programming, electronics and so on).
5.2 Computational technology is a design material -Jaewon
The article, Computational technology is a design material, mainly talks about how computational technology can be a design material. It first explains what material is. Then it explains what computational technology is and why it is an important material and also, a design material.
Material is what is needed to build an object in use. The first example brought up was a mobile phone. From a design perspective, if we assume it is built out of metal or plastic, it would suggest that a mobile phone is nothing more than a box containing some electronic circuits. However, the rest, it says, is what really makes it into a phone-neutral technology. It is clear that programs builds a mobile phone in use, thus programs are material, it says.
Computational technology is what is needed to build programs, mechanisms to execute these programs, interface mechanisms and technologies to display the execution of programs. As piano needs the key, the hammer, the string, the oscillation of a string to build a piano in use, PDA needs an LCD-screen, IC-circuits, plastic housing, an LCD-pen, electric current, programs and program-executions. All these build PDA and we call them materials. We set up a mechanism for the execution of programs, a hardware interface and we write program code to be executed. The material we really work with in the design process is best described using the term “computational technology”. The material itself that really builds a thing as a computational thing shows itself only in actual use, it says.
To explain the theory more specifically, the authors, Lars Hallnäs and Johan Redström, compare computational technology and compositional technology of music. When composing music, the actual compositional traces left are written instructions on how to perform the music, how to build its appearance. As design material computational technology is material in the same sense as compositional technology is material in composing music. In order to test an object, we need to execute programs to have look at how the material builds the given thing.
Computational technology is conceptual material. It is absent in a certain sense, it only presents conceptually. As music depends on instrumental performance, a computational thing depends on spatial material for its appearance. Interaction design thus involves a subtle composing in time. To make advances in interaction design practice, it requires rhythm, a central feature of any composition-in-time. A great potential for investigating and using rhythm in interaction design lies in the combination of the temporal qualities of computational technology with the spatial qualities of other design materials. By investigating how different materials can be used in the design of computational things, we open new possibilities for imposing rhythm in interaction design. When we combine the possibilities with crafting temporal form inherent in the computational material with the properties of other design materials, we find very rich possibilities for expressive design.
5.3 & 5,4 -Darketc 1/12/07, 11:30am
5.3
We have to built in the interactive designs not only the programming and programs to make it function in an actual sense, but also we must program is so that it does what we intend it to do. Because more often then not the electronic devices do not do what we intended of them to do. In the article they mention the “Cruise system” in a car and how they were worried about the correctness of the system in regard to what the user intended. As for the “Cruise system” all devices of the Interactive Design need control-function and control-interaction. So Interactive Design is not only about functionally but also usability of a device/product. Both aspects have to be design on the blue prints even before thinking about production.
5.4
Function: What it does as we use it ?
Behaviour : How it does it ?
Interaction is more related to a product’s behaviours, then it’s function. Computational devices tend to act and therefore creating an interaction. The example given is the old engine car compared to our contemporary computational cars. It is not the function that differentiate the two, it is rather their behaviours, while the old engine car would overheat easily, new computational car distribute the heat in an evenly fashion (I would think) Because the interface of the computational cars was developed as well as it’s functions, it respect more of what we intend a car to be doing.
What is a Digital Nomad ?
To me a digital nomad would be an individual surrounding itself mostly with interactive devices and choosing one device over another depending on it’s behaviours rather then on it’s functionality. To me a Digital Nomad is not an individual of the future, they exist in the present. Anyone who is constantly looking for new gizmo's or trying to replace the old ones with newer version is in my book a Digital Nomad. It is almost as if technology is necessary for this individual to survive, they need to move from one piece of technology to another just like the nomads to change of location when the resources rarefy.
X-Box:
What differentiate an X-Box 360 from the old X-Box ? I would believe that it serves the same function then it’s predecessor, but it has a ton of new features and there fore interact differently thus behaving differently. What would be the function of an X-Box, they describe it as an home-entertainment system, it is no longer a gaming console like the Atari, Nintendo or Sega console. The X-Box can now replace your DVD player and other electronic devices. It is no more only gaming entertainment, it tries to surpass every other type of home entertainment and put it all in a box. What makes an X-Box is not neutral, it as been designed to serve a purpose and more often then not it will be used to serve the purpose it as been built for, a simple example would be the X-Box controller built primarily for right-handed, thus giving the left-handed player a disadvantage ( I would believe).
Xbox: Illustrations
(Dora)
http://shutter.trancefixion.org/marker.jpg
(Jaewon)
http://hybrid.concordia.ca/~sasooab/cart453/interact_design.jpg
(Etienne)
Friday, January 19, 2007
4 Interfaces
For our second assignment we were asked to create 4 interfaces corresponding with these 4 topics:
1. Sarcastic
2. Cynical
3.Melancholic
4. Deceitful
Here are my sketches of these Interfaces.
My melancholic interface is a watch like device counting down to the day of your death, it interacts depending on the user consumption and habits. For example: if the user smokes a cigarette, it will shorten his life spawn or if he trains to the gym everyday it will elongate it.
This device contains also all the general useful tools that a regular watch posses.
My Cynical interface is an email account that automatically designate any incoming message as "spam". A selling catch phrase could be : "After all, nobody is to be trusted."
My Deceitful interface could be any type of communication device like a cell phone or a Chat software. Whenever you would try to start a communication with somebody you know it would create a communication link with any user of this service. So in the end you could communicate with the person you intended to only with extreme luck.
My sarcastic interface would be a "green computer" that would preserve the planet resources. The way this would be done is the it is the user that power the computer with the kinetic energy he creates with the help of stationary bike like device. The kinetic energy would be transformed into electricity to power the computer, thus saving the planet resources, by exploiting the power of the human body.
1. Sarcastic
2. Cynical
3.Melancholic
4. Deceitful
Here are my sketches of these Interfaces.
My melancholic interface is a watch like device counting down to the day of your death, it interacts depending on the user consumption and habits. For example: if the user smokes a cigarette, it will shorten his life spawn or if he trains to the gym everyday it will elongate it.
This device contains also all the general useful tools that a regular watch posses.
My Cynical interface is an email account that automatically designate any incoming message as "spam". A selling catch phrase could be : "After all, nobody is to be trusted."
My Deceitful interface could be any type of communication device like a cell phone or a Chat software. Whenever you would try to start a communication with somebody you know it would create a communication link with any user of this service. So in the end you could communicate with the person you intended to only with extreme luck.
My sarcastic interface would be a "green computer" that would preserve the planet resources. The way this would be done is the it is the user that power the computer with the kinetic energy he creates with the help of stationary bike like device. The kinetic energy would be transformed into electricity to power the computer, thus saving the planet resources, by exploiting the power of the human body.
Friday, January 12, 2007
1st blog
Here is the 1st blog for Cart 453 here is the address for my team's Blog
http://453group.blogspot.com/
5.3
We have to built in the interactive designs not only the programming and programs to make it function in an actual sense, but also we must program is so that it does what we intend it to do. Because more often then not the electronic devices do not do what we intended of them to do. In the article they mention the “Cruise system” in a car and how they were worried about the correctness of the system in regard to what the user intended. As for the “Cruise system” all devices of the Interactive Design need control-function and control-interaction. So Interactive Design is not only about functionally but also usability of a device/product. Both aspects have to be design on the blue prints even before thinking about production.
5.4
Function: What it does as we use it ?
Behavior : How it does it ?
Interaction is more related to a product’s behaviours, then it’s function. Computational devices tend to act and therefore creating an interaction. The example given is the old engine car compared to our contemporary computational cars. It is not the function that differentiate the two, it is rather their behaviours, while the old engine car would overheat easily, new computational car distribute the heat in an evenly fashion (I would think) Because the interface of the computational cars was developed as well as it’s functions, it respect more of what we intend a car to be doing.
What is a Digital Nomad ?
To me a digital nomad would be an individual surrounding itself mostly with interactive devices and choosing one device over another depending on it’s behaviours rather then on it’s functionality. To me a Digital Nomad is not an individual of the future, they exist in the present. Anyone who is constantly looking for new gizmo's or trying to replace the old ones with newer version is in my book a Digital Nomad. It is almost as if technology is necessary for this individual to survive, they need to move from one piece of technology to another just like the nomads to change of location when the resources rarefy.
X-Box:
What differentiate an X-Box 360 from the old X-Box ? I would believe that it serves the same function then it’s predecessor, but it has a ton of new features and there fore interact differently thus behaving differently. What would be the function of an X-Box, they describe it as an home-entertainment system, it is no longer a gaming console like the Atari, Nintendo or Sega console. The X-Box can now replace your DVD player and other electronic devices. It is no more only gaming entertainment, it tries to surpass every other type of home entertainment and put it all in a box. What makes an X-Box is not neutral, it as been designed to serve a purpose and more often then not it will be used to serve the purpose it as been built for, a simple example would be the X-Box controller built primarily for right-handed, thus giving the left-handed player a disadvantage ( I would believe).
http://453group.blogspot.com/
5.3
We have to built in the interactive designs not only the programming and programs to make it function in an actual sense, but also we must program is so that it does what we intend it to do. Because more often then not the electronic devices do not do what we intended of them to do. In the article they mention the “Cruise system” in a car and how they were worried about the correctness of the system in regard to what the user intended. As for the “Cruise system” all devices of the Interactive Design need control-function and control-interaction. So Interactive Design is not only about functionally but also usability of a device/product. Both aspects have to be design on the blue prints even before thinking about production.
5.4
Function: What it does as we use it ?
Behavior : How it does it ?
Interaction is more related to a product’s behaviours, then it’s function. Computational devices tend to act and therefore creating an interaction. The example given is the old engine car compared to our contemporary computational cars. It is not the function that differentiate the two, it is rather their behaviours, while the old engine car would overheat easily, new computational car distribute the heat in an evenly fashion (I would think) Because the interface of the computational cars was developed as well as it’s functions, it respect more of what we intend a car to be doing.
What is a Digital Nomad ?
To me a digital nomad would be an individual surrounding itself mostly with interactive devices and choosing one device over another depending on it’s behaviours rather then on it’s functionality. To me a Digital Nomad is not an individual of the future, they exist in the present. Anyone who is constantly looking for new gizmo's or trying to replace the old ones with newer version is in my book a Digital Nomad. It is almost as if technology is necessary for this individual to survive, they need to move from one piece of technology to another just like the nomads to change of location when the resources rarefy.
X-Box:
What differentiate an X-Box 360 from the old X-Box ? I would believe that it serves the same function then it’s predecessor, but it has a ton of new features and there fore interact differently thus behaving differently. What would be the function of an X-Box, they describe it as an home-entertainment system, it is no longer a gaming console like the Atari, Nintendo or Sega console. The X-Box can now replace your DVD player and other electronic devices. It is no more only gaming entertainment, it tries to surpass every other type of home entertainment and put it all in a box. What makes an X-Box is not neutral, it as been designed to serve a purpose and more often then not it will be used to serve the purpose it as been built for, a simple example would be the X-Box controller built primarily for right-handed, thus giving the left-handed player a disadvantage ( I would believe).
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