ARC8027 | Ambience and Atmospheres Newcastle University 02//2011

UPDATE | HOUSEKEEPING

BLOG

GROUPS OF THREE

UPDATE | TIMETABLE

1st Feb | Introduction 8th Feb | Architecture and Interaction Design 15th Feb | Ambience and Atmospheres + Newcastle Council Visit 22nd Feb | Workshop 1: Active Forms – Northumbria University? 29th Feb | Workshop 2 7th March | Proximity, Fields and Thresholds 14th March | Proposal Reviews EASETER VACATION: Project Development 18th April | Intelligence and Sentience 25th April | Tutorials 2nd May | Technical Review 9th May | No formal session 16th May | Final Review

KEY Tutor Led

Workshops Student Led

GRAHAM GRANT | Senior Transport Planner at Tyne and Wear Integrated Transport Authority

RECAP | The Tree of Interaction Design

CHARLES BABBAGE 1800’s Difference Engine

TOMMY FLOWERS 1940’s Colossus

ECKERT-MAUCHLY 1950’s UINVAC

XEROX 1980’s STAR

MARK WEISER 1980-90’s The most profound technologies are those that disappear.

UBIQITOUS COMPUTING 90’s – Networks, Miniature Low Powered Processors

ARDUINO 2000s Home Brew Microprocessor

Mathematics + Mechanical Engineering

Logic + Electrical Engineering

Psychology

Sociology + Anthropology

Art, Architecture, Media Design…..

ENGINEERING DESIGN

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION

INTERACTION DESIGN

PROVOCATION | Ambient Computing?

HOMEWORK | BEYOND AMBIENT COMPUTING

1| Read Matt Jones article Journeying Toward Extravagant, Expressive, Place-based Computing in Interactions Magazine (on Blackboard). 2| Have a look at the Architecture and Situated Computing Pamphlet Series and any other sources (online or otherwise that you find interesting) 3| Find an example or examples of interaction design projects which go beyond ambient computing and change the architectural spaces in more subtle or profound ways. Blog about them before next week.

GRAHAM GRANT | Senior Transport Planner at Tyne and Wear Integrated Transport Authority

THE END martyn.dade-robertson@ncl.ac.uk