The following video has been informed by our research and writing about new information environments. The class themes of embodiment, networking technology, and systems theory informed the idea for our proposed “History Happens Here” event. Our event will pull visitors out of the...
Seamless Integration
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ESSAY Increasing in capabilities, digital technology is integrating into our lives at an extraordinary pace. We notice digital technology incorporated into our environments, affecting our experiences, and even shaping our decisions. The theories of new information environments can...
Enjoyably Engaging
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The relationship and interaction between the mind and body begins to describe the theory of embodiment. Understanding the relationship the mind plays on the behaviors or actions of the body, and vice versa, can influence designing experiences on a visceral, behavioral, and reflective...
History Happens Here, by DL...
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The following video has been informed by our research and writing about new information environments. The class themes of embodiment, networking technology, and systems theory informed the idea for our proposed “History Happens Here” event. Our event will pull visitors out of the museum...
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J IS FOR JAY’s NEW INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT Welcome to my attempt at a new information environment. Using a Seasame St. method of teaching, I am using the letters of J’s New Info Environment to reveal 20 different things that I have come across related to this class. I hope you...
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‘S IS FOR SPACE TIME WORM Deb Roy discusses how he documented the speech of his child in his house for one year. Using a relatively low-fi method of collecting data (multiple fish eye’d video cameras), his team recreated a 3D model of his home that can be navigated during the...
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N IS FOR NGRAM Google has been unable to reveal all of its scanned books to the public due to publishers suing them for copyright infringement. Google Preview allows some pages to be exposed to the public, however Google’s ability to ‘scan the worlds books’ has the...
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E IS FOR EXPLORING DATA Analyzing data is an important part of uncovering meaning or significance with that data. Google Labs allows anyone to explore public data through different visualization templates. The data explorer also allows a user to upload their own data and insert it into an...
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W IS FOR WTF IS TGR TXTING? Working in student housing at the university level and being on call (via a pager) for countless weekends I always wondered why a pager? Then, the other day I was listening to NPR and they talked about a similar situation with doctors being on call and why they have...
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I IS FOR I WONDER HOW THEY MADE THAT CONNECTION? How do you make the connection between spiders and goats to make a spider silk? Not exactly sure… but its happening in Wyoming (of course). The goats are injected with the spider protein and when the goats reproduce, the next generation...
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N IS FOR NEW KINECT EXPLORATIONS The Microsoft Kinect has been getting some traction in people exploring its possible applications. Medical applications, educational applications, and even more serious applications. One I thought many may like is the storytelling application using the...
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F IS FOR FUTURE CASTING Thinking about the future of mobile devices, I wondered how mobile devices are thought to advance in the future. I wrote an essay last semester on gaming on mobile devices and came across this Ted Talk in some of my research for the paper: Fabian Hemmert: The...
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O IS FOR OOOOPS, I BROKE THE NEIGHBORS WINDOW WITH MY CURVEBALL As touchscreens continue to become more popular so is the use of glass. Glass is normally thought of as a volatile material subject to shattering due to any high impact situation (dropping, crashing, etc). Glass has...
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E IS FOR EMOTIONS REVEALED No, this is not about Activia, though yogurt is tasty. Affectiva is a company that creates sensors that captures a person’s behaviors, emotions, and other bodily levels during activities. In the NPR broadcast, Dr. Picard discusses how they are testing the...
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N IS FOR NICE SHOT Augmented reality apps are becoming more prevalent however few enrich the user’s experience. Yelp, for instance, shows you restaurants based on distance and reviews overlying your device’s view...
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V IS FOR VIRTUAL EXHIBITION Here is a great article explaining a case study for museum exhibitions using augmented reality (AR). The article describes the project done by the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Similar to the MOMA exhibit space Santiago discussed in class, using AR allows...
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I IS FOR INTERNET CHAT ROULETTE Ben folds, artist + musician + male model, has performed a couple of concerts integrating chat roulette. Chat roulette is a network of people video chatting at random. It’s like a series of random blind dates with the ability to skip to another random...
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R IS FOR RETHINK YOUR SENSES Imaging how old technologies will be reinterpreted in new technology is fun and definitely limitless. In this TED TALK, Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo the sixth sense which reinterprets some technologies, such as the watch and phone, in new ways through...
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O IS FOR ONLINE GAMING IN THE CLASSROOM There has been a lot of success circulating around the game MindCraft, however some educators have decided to experiement on that success and bring MindCraft into the classroom. Teaching class through an online environment is a progressive idea. Some...