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Questions anytime

Calm computing: A challenge forthe 21 centurystst

What‘scalmcomputing?

Art center college of design

Wow, in 40 minutes?

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• information underload and the subconsious

• three distinctions that change the game

• role of borders as social resources

• why I love motorcycles

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A PARADOX OF THE DIGITAL WORLD

INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION PRESENTEDmay DECREASE THE FEELING OF INFORMATION OVERLOADAND CREATE A STATE OF FLOW AND CALMNESS.

BUT

FIRST, ONE MUST LEVERAGE THE subCONSCIOUS.

IS THIS GUYCRAZY ?

SO, MORECAN BELESS ? ?

And honor both physical and social resources

TAPPING THE subCONSCIOUS

3 CRITICAL DISTINCTIONS

1. CENTER - PERIPHERY

2. EXPLICIT - IMPLICIT

3. ATTENDING - ATTUNING

PLEASE, MR. JSBBE CONCRETE.

HMmM, beyondJust the physical?

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The toilet tube phenomenonThe toilet tube phenomenon

Hyperbolic treeHyperbolic tree

Designed by ramana rao -chief technologist, inxight - a parc spinoff.

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The button that is changing the web

Where art-math-sci-business met

Where virtual meets physical--Honoring the periphery/context

A magic lens on a time wallCell phones next?

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Remote/virtual studio critiques

parcmit

Much info liesin the Periphery,context matters

an experiment between parc & mit

But whatAbout the Social periphery

Learning to use technologyFrom and with others…

Learning and helping while waiting

WHERE A CONSTRAINT BECOMES A RESOURCE

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Learning

Extensive• exposure to multiple communities of practice/scholars

• experiencing:What constitutes an explanationWhat is elegant or interesting, etc

Intensive• enculturating into a particular practice:

learning to read, write, select problems, etc• picking up the aesthetics of the practice• learning to be (not just learning about) - cognitive

apprenticeship

on campus

Key: rubbing shoulders with multiple sensibilities

Ruth simmons - campus life: intellectually quarrelsome

Lineage - constructivist ecologies

3 million players in korea, 26k networked game parlors

Porous membrane between the physical and virtual

Towards immersive mediaPersistent, accretive, multi authored narrative

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TAPPING THE subCONSCIOUS

3 CRITICAL DISTINCTIONS

1. CENTER - PERIPHERY2. EXPLICIT - IMPLICIT3. ATTENDING - ATTUNING

Audio icons

Ahhh -- iconswith aleitmotif !

Thanksbillgaver.

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Which one do you trust more?Which one do you trust more?

Largedictionary

Pocketdictionary

Oh! But which onedoes word use?

I don’t know!

What is weird HERE?‘‘

MEMO, EMAIL, IM, SMS, PHONE CALL -EACH SUPPORTS DIFFERENT GENRES.

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GenreTapping the resources created by

Social practices - a kind of negotiationIn practice between two communities of

Practice - writers and readers

Aren’t these alsoSocial affordances ?

TAPPING THE subCONSCIOUS

3 CRITICAL DISTINCTIONS

1. CENTER - PERIPHERY2. EXPLICIT - IMPLICIT3. ATTENDING - ATTUNING

What is attuning?

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The danglingstring

(indicator of ether traffic)

The waterfountain

(indicator of stock prices)

Thanksnatalie

Things thatthink likeTo link !

Steps toward attunement

Ambient devices

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TODAY’S digital STUDENTMultiprocessing galore

Email, instant messaging,Chat room, cell phone, rip musicAnd maybe watch mtv - all at once?

Chat room, im, im

Ahh, THE DIGITAL WORLDBECOMES THE OxygenTHAT STUDENT’S BREATH. THINK ‘STUDENT LIFE’, NOT CLASSES.

A possible mind bug

All this multiprocessing means theyDon’t pay much attention to any oneThing..

Not so quick! Perhaps rememberThe distinction betweenAttending and attuning

(continuous partial attention ?)

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EXPLICITCENTERATTENDING

IMPLICITPERIPHERYATTUNING

COOL, BUT HOW?

CALM COMPUTING: REBALANCing --

CONSIDERBORDERS ANDSOCIAL PRACTICES

Borders as safe spaces--doorways afford conversations

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porches for supporting community

What’s theEquivalentIn the e-world

Physical

Virtual

PUBLIC

PRIVATE

A rich set of opportunities

A new world! fundamentally newWays to create meaning from bits.

production

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A two wheeled computational platformA two wheeled computational platform

Where driverand platformmerge

Ah, andEnables aState of flow

Where calm = boring

Tunnel visionCommunication , Communities & context

Informationindividuals

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Thank you.

And thanks to mark weiserfor

Ubiquitous computing, etc