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15 May 2007
Ubiquitous Web: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Posted by Rob Styles at May 15, 2007 04:19 PM
Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino of designswarm is presenting Ceci n'est pas seulement une pipe: semantic meaning of everyday objects in a connected world.
Objects have everyday meaning. The ubiquitous web can add a layer of complexity to those objects. Are we ready to deal with that? As a consumer of everyday life?
Stuff and Things + Technology
Otoizm: MP3 players that are also Yo-yos
Chairs that control the liggting as you sit on them
Stuff and Things + the internet
Webkinz
SecondLife
Mythings.com
Thinglink.org
Moodstats
Objects that help visualise
Stint
Nike + iPod
The trend for everyday objects to becme more aware of the online world and as we start to develop objects that represent the state of online things in the real world we blur the boundaries.
Right now we have the ability to tag objects, using barcodes and phones. There will come a time when the object simply radiates the information. Reference the physical indications of on and off as described in Adam Greenfields book Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing.
Wonderful examples of what next:
Who sat on this chair before?
For how long?
Is someone else sitting on a chair on the other side of the world?
How much do I weigh?
Product Design is going through a crisis as a result of many factors such as 'fabbing', the ability to home-fabricate; obviously the challenges brought by the ubiquitous web are seen both as threat and opportunity.
In an echo of Imity, Alexandra references a design project which resulted in bluetooth enabled fish, to allow Christians to find fellow believers.
In short she's advocating a multi-disciplinary approach to the development of the integration points between physical and virtual worlds. I whole-heartedly agree. That's why we're hiring for an Interaction Designer.
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