Download - Visualising Social Space
• minute (around 1 mm3) semiconductor grains• sense and compute locally and communicate wirelessly• autonomous, with its own captive, renewable energy
source• programmable computational networks
http://www.specknet.org/
backgroundenabling technology
• “workmanship….takes over where design stops”
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David Pye (1968) The Nature and Art of Workmanship, The Herbert Press, p62
craft as design methodology
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• two brooches and one pendant, each with– ProSpeckzII prototype Speck– 8 LEDs– two 3V coin cell batteries
• pendant also has touch sensor
basic specification
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• three social distances– intimate
• below 30cm
– social• between 30 and 1 meter
– distant• over 1 meter
proxemics
• visual output– reflects identity of other
individuals met
– indicates proximity of the encounter
– lingers after the encounter, leaving a trace
backgroundthe interaction algorithm
• emerges from a set of relations– corresponding to social and productive
arrangements
• geometric and affective aspects– geographical distance– frequency of interactions
• the urban personality– management of personal space
backgrounddefining social space
backgroundmaking visible social space
Regular 1: “Where’s meat and two veg, then?”
Publican: “Dunno, mate – should be here by now”
Regular 2: “Must be doing a Harry!”
(-all laugh-)
Regular 1: “Put one in the wood for him, then – and yourself?”
Publican: “I’ll have one for Ron, thanks.”
Fox, K. (2004) Watching the English, Hodder & Stoughton, p.100
• new forms of behaviour– changing roles– caring, bullying, supporting etc.– self determination vs. group affiliation
• new social shapes– changing social relations
• within the group• as a group in larger situations
backgroundmaking visible social space
• to re-examine the pre-determined user group– in light of current issues in market research
• to map any impact of the jewellery on the social space– using social network analysis
aimsin designing the research
• grounded theory– Strauss, A. & Corbin, J. Grounded Theory
Methodology. In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y. (1994) Handbook of Qualitative Research. London: Sage
• social network analysis– Kilduff, M. & Tsai, W. (2003) Social Networks and
Organizations. London: Sage
methodologiesin designing the
research
• grounded theory– media of interaction
• literal media, eg the telephone• veiled media, eg consumption patterns
– types of interaction• “conflict, reciprocity and interaction”
– frequencies of interaction
– underlying attitudes
methodologiesdata collection & analysis
• social network analysis– ucinet
methodologiesvisualisation of
results
Borgatti, S.P., Everett, M.G. and Freeman, L.C. 2002. Ucinet for Windows: Software for Social Network Analysis. Harvard, MA: Analytic Technologies.
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research clusters
PLAN - pervasive, locative arts network
Steve Benford, Bill Gaver, Matthew Chalmers, Ben Russell, Drew Hemment
INTERROGATING FASHION –
emerging digital design & manufacture paradigms
Sandy Black, London College of Fashion
http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~cs179
