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Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Tuesday's Meeting:

--------LINDA MEETING - new plans -----------

TO DO:

1. pilot test of current system : feb 05. deadline for feb. 06 workshop 2pm
2. text language analysis - find out / analyse text message language and common words - jokes, - this can be comprised of just the team going through information and data february 9th.
3. associate words with images - see how people assign different words to a collection of images feb 13th
4. have people pick images that correspond to a certain word feb 16th
5. from feb 16 - 23 revise prototype database
6. feb 23rd need rubric for evaluation and surveys!
7. 24th rough draft of short paper
8. 24th demo day at MLE - surveys!!! WITH rubric for evaluation
9. 25 debreif on demo -
10. 25 - 28th revise paper


age groups:
1. teenagers (computer club house - 14 + )
2. adults (our age? college?)

OR

1. tech savvy
2. non-tech

recommendations for system
1. shorten words
2. accomodate slang words
3. look for humor in juxtaposition of image and text
4. literary theory
5. being able to "bomb" the system - or erase it through detonating pictures and words.
6. deflect obscenities through humor or public service announcements

CATI - TO DO
meet with sven, coordinate getting system up and running

SVEN - TO DO
meet with cati - help to get system up and running

ALL: locate and ask people to join focus group on 06.02.2004

NEXT MEETING: 05,02.2004 - to discuss pilot discussion for next day



---------- OLD OLD NOTES - not necessarily valid anymore... ---------------
current direction and outline

1st PILOT TEST

1st SITUATED TEST - to commence immediately FEB 9th DURATION: 1 week

Monday, January 26, 2004

re: workshop ideas...

i wouldn't expect NCAD and Trinity College to have such a different sense of place - they would be two different subcategories of 'educational institution' - i see more difference in generic places - we should discuss further...

Tomorrow we will :
  • discuss Scenarios of interaction for testing during the workshop,

  • clarify our goals,

  • define the methodology used: questionnaire/interview, and

  • sketch the low file prototyping of the board.

  • look at the software, and see how much we can use it for the workshop. We could have it running and ask impressions of the participants while playing with it.
    Material needed for running the software: a mac (cati's mac), the Trinity Server, and maybe a PC.

  • Workshop ideas:

    Goal of the workshop:
  • get an idea of how the users would use their cell phone to interact with a picture-message board depending on the place. (e.g. TexTales)

  • Get to know what could make the interface a mediator among users? Would the interface had to confront media messages? To superpose them? To mix them?
    (e.g. mixer-subverter for kids)


  • Media left: e.g. Secret message, provocative message, art work, sounds?
    Do they act on the others message?

    Example of a place depended media:
    - NCAD, users would leave art work, and maybe more provocative message.
    - Trinity College, maybe more informative

    What do we want the board to do? The board could engage the user in manipulating other’s media. The other could see a personal message, and wanting to give his personal response by the mean of a piece (picture, work, poem), provocative answer (own pictures, own tag).



    RE: cati's post:
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    espace publicitaire means: space to advertise
    espace public means: public space
    --------------------------------------------------------------

    i was just thinking about this image... it is soooo perfect. it is a great example of what we are interested - the transformation of meaning over time with the manipulation and input of a variety of individuals over time. ideally a passing glances participant will come to the project and possibly leave something like the advertiser who put this item on the wall - however, as others come and augment image and text the raw material left will change in meaning - creating an emergent narrative... image and word-play that becomes a playful practice... more on this later...

    Friday, January 23, 2004

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    Protected: meeting with cati 11.26.2003 by kaki (kaki), in research: meetings


    project: Texting Glances

    End Goal: at least 3 prototypes (tests) before committing to final design specifications

    Katherine quoting Csiksemihaly: Objects represent “continuity of self over time”

    look at constraints, social, emotional, physical:
    1) Texting language
    2) System/Network behavior

    need to determine 1) audience 2) scope

    PLAN:

    1.a. survey of notice boards
    b. select specific boards for monitoring

    make not of:

    amt of institutional or designed signage
    public input/modification to singage
    “secret” or subversive signage
    observe:
    2.a. waiting spaces
    b. passing spaces

    select waiting spaces and passing spaces to observe

    3. Cross reference first two items for patterns

    LITERATURE SURVEY

    Texting languages
    Public Signage
    DECEMBER 11, 2003 - 1pm first survey


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    Texting Glances meeting with Kaki 11.26.03

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    Kaki references: social meaning of objects (Michael Csiksemihaly).

    Cati’s : pictures from ur computer directly accessible from a cell phone as
    a command device to navigate directly onto ur computer from ur cell phone

    Kaki’s: look at a map to divide the parts of where to look: café shops
    veruss trinity. we should look at the issues of a board in a public space
    and make a low fi prototype to see the similarites and assumptions.

    planning:
    1-
    Take pictures every week. Survey of notice boards in the city
    2-
    Notice the modifications every week, the kind of sign, and subversive
    response (personal, general…)

    3- look at secret signage (hearts, etc…) and different kind of support for
    vandalism (rock, paper, trees…)

    Literature survey of existing public signage projects. Document and observe
    the differences between a waiting space (bus stop) and a walking by. Where
    peopl act on their space.
    –> to monitor passing space
    Then, we do cross references between boards and waiting space

    Literature survey also on secret signage, code messages
    Texting language
    Public message board digital
    Content of sms in categories (emotional content)
    Blog online verus context public message board

    Compare this with shared and open system

    Then, maybe focus on personal messages (sense of exitment of
    unpredictability, a way of living a surprise) Leave something that noone
    would understand expect the person concerned. The idea of public space to
    display personal and “secrets” messages./ We could have different types of
    boardsa and see how they function: political, concerts, and personal…

    The 12th: first survey and look at commercial areas veruss parks. O connell
    street, tmeple bart, stephen’s green and the liberties (next time).

    ———– ************* ———-
    New ideas by cati like that on the fly
    ———– ************* ———-

    - where could be text from? In front of the board or from anywhere. If in
    front of the board, we could imagine a system that would detect the phone
    like with blootooth… Infrared…
    Then the board could have an application made to browse inside of ur
    computer that u could load onto ur phone. (some applications exists already
    to do that, maybe people could see the link on the board to download the
    soft).

    Big question: do we need to pass in front of the kiosk to leave some data?

    - we could do a first rapid test with the icom at media lab europe. By
    having the possibility to send sms to the icom, we could see how people use
    it and leave message to a digital public board.




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    Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 16:51:50 +0000
    Subject: Re: meeting notes
    From: Cati
    To: Katherine Moriwaki
    Cc: sven anderson
    X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Dec 2003 16:58:54.0682 (UTC) FILETIME=[91A9ABA0:01C3B8F5]
    X-RCPT-TO:

    On 12/2/03 15:34, “Katherine Moriwaki” wrote:

    > At 16:22 02/12/2003 +0000, Cati wrote:
    >
    >> ———– ************* ———-
    >> New ideas by cati like that on the fly
    >> ———– ************* ———-
    >>
    >> - where could be text from? In front of the board or from anywhere. If in
    >> front of the board, we could imagine a system that would detect the phone
    >> like with blootooth… Infrared…
    >> Then the board could have an application made to browse inside of ur
    >> computer that u could load onto ur phone. (some applications exists already
    >> to do that, maybe people could see the link on the board to download the
    >> soft).
    >>
    >> Big question: do we need to pass in front of the kiosk to leave some data?
    >
    > good questions interesting ideas. personally i like the assertion of
    > physical presence as integral to use. - let’s discuss.
    >

    Cool! me too We should discuss about the add-on by constraining our
    system to a necessary physical presence of the user in the area of the
    Public Board… Should be fun…

    >> - we could do a first rapid test with the icom at media lab europe. By
    >> having the possibility to send sms to the icom, we could see how people use
    >> it and leave message to a digital public board.
    >
    > the graffiti wall already does this, and i wonder how many people would
    > actually use it if installed in media lab europe. it’s such a closed and
    > inaccessible environment. we can also set up the graffiti wall here on
    > campus somewhere at trinity, and it has a larger and more diverse
    > population passing through.
    >

    Yeah, makes sense..

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    Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 17:01:21 +0000
    Subject: Re: more notes
    From: Cati
    To: Katherine Moriwaki ,
    sven anderson
    X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Dec 2003 17:08:26.0739 (UTC) FILETIME=[E6A2A430:01C3B8F6]
    X-RCPT-TO:

    I think that is fantastic !

    I am going to Paris, and center of France. I might do some as well.
    It could be interesting to look at patterns during our survey, and it works
    nicely with my personal interest on the appropriation and perspectives on
    the environment by various communities.
    Areas such as: City/versus park/ versus café…

    We should try to make a list of specific places we would like to look at
    after our mini survey on Friday, what do you both think?

    cati

    On 12/2/03 15:47, “Katherine Moriwaki” wrote:

    > what do we think about sven’s suggestions for doing some survey work in
    > other cities?
    > i will be back in los angeles for two weeks. i can do some there. sven will
    > be in three east coast cities.
    > might be a cool idea… of course we can only monitor dublin for any lenght
    > of time, but for the initial survey - might be cool
    >
    > -k
    >
    ——-sven —————
    >hi guys
    >thanks for the note katherine…i’ll be back in early-mid jan to begin
    >work with this. in the meantime, would it be interesting / helpful for me
    >to do some of the same surveying of message spaces / signage etc. in the
    >US? i’ll be in boston / new york / philly this next month. or do we feel
    >that the project should focus on dublin? god knows i haven’t been to new
    >york in so long, they probably already have things like texting glances
    >installed everywhere…
    >-sven



    Thursday, January 22, 2004

    I just love that one

    espace publicitaire means: space to advertise
    espace public means: public space

    Some Space & Place references:


    References on paper:
    (There are photocopies from these books available)


    Images from survey02: Venice Beach, CA
    December 30, 2003




    We started at North Venice Boulevard, walked up to Rose and back down again...

    Images from the survey can be accessed here


    Content uploaded




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    Next Meeting Goal: Define: Workshop on Item 2: Place/Space and its effects on the participant


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