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The longer it takes you to catch on, the more visionary I get « 場 (ba)
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Laquo; Tap tap tap – a case study for distributed collaborative creativity. The longer it takes you to catch on, the more visionary I get. With apologies to Bruce Sterling. Take a look at the wonderful Immersive Workspaces. From Linden Lab and Rivers Run Red. Wonderful because it’s a great piece of work and a real breakthrough, but also because it’s not done yet. Immersive Workspaces - avatars view slides in a virtual meeting room. Their avatars enter a virtual presentation room, with chairs oriented tow...
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A Pale Shadow of Reality: Virtuality as a Second-Best Option « 場 (ba)
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Laquo; Local knowledge. A Pale Shadow of Reality: Virtuality as a Second-Best Option. This rant kicks off with a Tech Republic article on telepresence. That was linked in the February ’08 Litmus. I’m reading Litmus because the lovely people at ACID. Have been kind enough to chip in on my research, and they went to the trouble of putting it together, so it’s clearly something I ought to be doing. Fortunately it’s an interesting read, at least to someone of my peculiar interests. Telepresence is its own th...
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Space, Place and 場. « 場 (ba)
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Blogging, context and purpose. Space, Place and 場. Let’s start with 場. If you’re seeing a little square instead of the kanji character for “ba” (as shown in the banner image up the top of this page), then Here’s a nickel, kid, go buy yourself a real computer. The true meaning of 場 is a little richer than that. It’s a dynamic, inhabited place; a place for doing something. Somewhere to hold a festival, or work on a project together. A collaborative place. My colleague at CCS. At the same time there is a fl...
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Reclaiming Affordances « 場 (ba)
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Laquo; Creativity and Cognition 2009. The next time you are about to use the word “affordance”, please stop and check if the word “cue” would work instead. Because if it would, then:. 1 you are using an obscure technical term for something that already has a perfectly good plain English word, and. 2 you are using that technical term incorrectly. As a reason to abandon the term to its abusers. Yes, words can change their meanings. Generally, I celebrate this fact. But not this time. Affordances are not th...
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Ad-hoc workspace sharing prototype « 場 (ba)
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Laquo; Dear Alain de Botton, here’s why we don’t tweet about Descartes’ Second Treatise:. Ad-hoc workspace sharing prototype. I’ve been IKEA-hacking. There’s a great community. For real – do you think mine counts? I’ll explain first. I recently posted an idea for ad-hoc workspace sharing for under $US 500/person. The idea is simple: get one of the new LED-based micro projectors. When figuring out how to prototype this, I then thought of the ubiquitous angle-poise task lamp. Apparently Anglepoise. Now, I&...
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No more verbal abuse | The Geekess
http://sarah.thesharps.us/2013/07/15/no-more-verbal-abuse
Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Open source developer, bicyclist, gardener, and geek. No more verbal abuse. July 15, 2013. I’m standing up against verbal abuse on LKML. I will happily stand alone, however you can also support this cause. Please speak up, either by resharing this post, or commenting on this post with words of support. If you dare, you can also reply to my LKML email. 8220;Where do I put this fire? This bright red feeling? This Tiger Lily down my mouth? 8211; Linux kern...
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» People Creativity & Cognition Studios
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Creativity and Cognition Studios. Innovation in Support of Creativity. CCS Founding Director [expand bio]. PhD (Logic), Research Professor of Computation and Creative Media. B Arts (music performance), Master of IT (computing), PhD (CCS). The International Computer Music Conferences. New Interfaces for Musical Expression. And the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology. BMus, M.Sc.(Hons), Ph.D. Alon Ilsar is an instrument designer, electronic producer, experimental percussionist and composer. He is currentl...
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Notes from a SIGGRAPH Panel on Successful Collaboration Across Time & Space « 場 (ba)
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Laquo; In case you’re new. Creativity and Cognition 2011. Notes from a SIGGRAPH Panel on Successful Collaboration Across Time & Space. Tim McLaughlin – Texas A&M University. Tommy Burnette – Lucasfilm Singapore. Tim Fields – Certain Affinity. Jonathan Gibbs – DreamWorks Animation. David Parrish – Reel FX Creative Studios. People have different communication styles: some do well face to face, others work better remotely perhaps they are better at written communication, or on webcam. There is a tension bet...
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Experience Art « 場 (ba)
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Laquo; How Creativity Works, and How the Patent System Thinks it Works. Innovation and Creative Intelligence. Back in 2008 I presented a paper at OZCHI in Cairns, and met a few of my research heroes. I documented the experience on Twitter, but despite my optimism at the time. There is no longer any trace of those tweets. So this year when I attended the workshop on Public Art, Evaluation and HCI. I left twitter behind and posted on alpha. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0.
