After the first workshop we got together and discussed 3 different papers.Now after it had already been a very long day and the fact we are all DAT students the discussions on the papers can sometimes go a little bit farfectched. This is only due to our creative minds and maybe the lack of coffee. All kidding aside lets take a look at these papers, i have already briefly mentioned one of the papers but lets try and go into a bit more depth.
Paper 1 : BEHAVIOURABLES AND FUTURIBLES Ascott, Roy.
As i have already stated i did find this paper very hard to read.Even now i still struggle to understand the way in which this paper has been written. Due to this im not going to say much on this paper, however i do think from what i can understand that this paper is very much ahead of its time. In my own opinion is sounds like some technology itself is becoming seamless into our everyday lives that we don't even think about it we should do it like tieing our shoes.
Paper 2 : Designing the connected everyday Giaccardi, E
Personally i found this paper very interesting in the ideas and topics that was mentioned. He talks about how in allot of societies we are always connected at the dinner table whether it be throw a text message a phone call , tweet or on Facebook. He then talks about some places where everyone has to put there phones into the center of the table and no one is allowed to touch them for the duration of the meal. This sparked a conversation during the seminar, I believe it was phill who mentioned that he knows some people who do that , but the temptation of checking that notification is very strong. So they have a pentally system to stop people from checking , the first person who checks there phone buys the round of beer or the meal. This went on for a while talking about different ways of trying to prevent people from using there phone's at the table.table. Until we came up with a table with a built in phone jamer. That is slightly ironic though how the answer of how to stop using technology at the dinner table is to make the table itself a piece of technology.
Next he talks about the everyday objects being connected to the internet, this is where i think the main link comes into with this module the connect everyday and the Internet of Things comes into play. Giaccardi "So what will we do when our shoes won’t stop chatting with each other, or talking back to us about getting some exercise? (I can’t even imagine how gossipy shoes will be!) What will be the solution then? Piling them outside the door before entering a restaurant or going to the movies?" I find this statement very intriguing as a few years ago we only had phones that could connect now we have cars, watches wristbands and many more everyday objects that connect to the net or communicate between each other. Try and imagine have to take you shoes off in order to watch a movie in case for instance your shoes suddenly say "You have been in active for more than a hour get up and move." It sounds mad that a shoe could say that but why not? Samsung gear and the Apple watch both already have a similar feature why couldn't a pair of shoes.
http://www.samsung.com/uk/discover/mobile/get-in-shape-with-galaxy-s5-and-gear-range/
http://www.apple.com/uk/watch/health-and-fitness/
That idea of the connect everyday could one day mean that everything we interact with would be connected not only to you but to other systems and then from those systems to global networks.? This could be the start of one great big constellation of systems with us being at center or would we be at the center or would we ourselfs simply just be another device ?
Paper 3: The Computer for the 21st Century Weiser, M
This paper is around the idea of Ubiquitous Computing , which from what i can understand is where we don't know the technology is even there its hidden into the background of everyday life (ubiq.com, ). My interpretation of this paper is the idea the by having Ubiquitous Computing people wont be stuck in front of a screen isolated as the technology could be anywhere just maybe not in the shape of a screen. We all know the term think outside the box , i think from what Wiser is saying we need to think outside the screen.
ubiq.com. ( ) Ubiquitous Computing. [Online] Available from: http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html [accessed 7 October 2015]
Paper 1 : BEHAVIOURABLES AND FUTURIBLES Ascott, Roy.
As i have already stated i did find this paper very hard to read.Even now i still struggle to understand the way in which this paper has been written. Due to this im not going to say much on this paper, however i do think from what i can understand that this paper is very much ahead of its time. In my own opinion is sounds like some technology itself is becoming seamless into our everyday lives that we don't even think about it we should do it like tieing our shoes.
Paper 2 : Designing the connected everyday Giaccardi, E
Personally i found this paper very interesting in the ideas and topics that was mentioned. He talks about how in allot of societies we are always connected at the dinner table whether it be throw a text message a phone call , tweet or on Facebook. He then talks about some places where everyone has to put there phones into the center of the table and no one is allowed to touch them for the duration of the meal. This sparked a conversation during the seminar, I believe it was phill who mentioned that he knows some people who do that , but the temptation of checking that notification is very strong. So they have a pentally system to stop people from checking , the first person who checks there phone buys the round of beer or the meal. This went on for a while talking about different ways of trying to prevent people from using there phone's at the table.table. Until we came up with a table with a built in phone jamer. That is slightly ironic though how the answer of how to stop using technology at the dinner table is to make the table itself a piece of technology.
Next he talks about the everyday objects being connected to the internet, this is where i think the main link comes into with this module the connect everyday and the Internet of Things comes into play. Giaccardi "So what will we do when our shoes won’t stop chatting with each other, or talking back to us about getting some exercise? (I can’t even imagine how gossipy shoes will be!) What will be the solution then? Piling them outside the door before entering a restaurant or going to the movies?" I find this statement very intriguing as a few years ago we only had phones that could connect now we have cars, watches wristbands and many more everyday objects that connect to the net or communicate between each other. Try and imagine have to take you shoes off in order to watch a movie in case for instance your shoes suddenly say "You have been in active for more than a hour get up and move." It sounds mad that a shoe could say that but why not? Samsung gear and the Apple watch both already have a similar feature why couldn't a pair of shoes.
http://www.samsung.com/uk/discover/mobile/get-in-shape-with-galaxy-s5-and-gear-range/
http://www.apple.com/uk/watch/health-and-fitness/
That idea of the connect everyday could one day mean that everything we interact with would be connected not only to you but to other systems and then from those systems to global networks.? This could be the start of one great big constellation of systems with us being at center or would we be at the center or would we ourselfs simply just be another device ?
Paper 3: The Computer for the 21st Century Weiser, M
This paper is around the idea of Ubiquitous Computing , which from what i can understand is where we don't know the technology is even there its hidden into the background of everyday life (ubiq.com, ). My interpretation of this paper is the idea the by having Ubiquitous Computing people wont be stuck in front of a screen isolated as the technology could be anywhere just maybe not in the shape of a screen. We all know the term think outside the box , i think from what Wiser is saying we need to think outside the screen.
ubiq.com. ( ) Ubiquitous Computing. [Online] Available from: http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html [accessed 7 October 2015]