week 12. form study of slow technology

Slow Technology – Designing for Reflection

1. student presentation on form study of slow technology.

Slow Technology: Critical Reflection and Future Directions

http://www.coolhunting.com/design/slow-tech.php

http://prote.in/feed/2011/09/slow-tech

http://kiwiandpom.com/products/falcon-enamelware/pip-phone/pip-phone/kp-radio-slow-tech/

http://hlt.media.mit.edu/?p=2286

https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2013/10/thermobooth

Designing for solitude  

http://www.ixda.org/resources/ben-fullerton-designing-solitude

   http://www.ommwriter.com/

   

http://macfreedom.com/

http://www.mindful.org/mindfulness-practice/mindfulness-and-awareness/designing-for-solitude

Mindful design:

http://cargocollective.com/yufan/Channel-of-Mindfulness

Slow Technology DIS 2012 workshop

Reflective Design

Feature Labs:
Digital Interaction at Cultural Lab
MIT Media Lab High-Low Tech

week 11. material awareness

Material Awareness by James Pierce

1. three relations between technology and human
2. slow technology as a hermeneutic relation: How can slow tech provide material awareness?
3.What is awareness? What is to be aware?
4. readiness-to-hand v.s. presence-at-hand


Project 3
[step 3]
1. What is the material to be aware of?
2. What form could be used to provide material awareness?
     hermeneutic relation: slow technology: physical form according to time-aspect
     alterity relation: animate objects
     How about embodiment relations?
3. Propose a series of 3 tangible artifacts to provide material awareness:
     1. embodiment relation
     2. hermeneutic relation
     3. alterity relation

present "form studies" (also ref: counterfunctional things) on 5/26

TEI submission INFO:

http://www.tei-conf.org/16/

week 10. presentation and discussion

student presentation and discussion on:

Project 3. Slow technology design
[Step 2] PROBING

week 9. experiencing prototype

1. Experience making activity:
    Practice:
    (1) Choose a target user
    (2) Visit the user's microblog (FB, twitter), and select one post
    (3) Using keywords in the post to search for another new article (book intro, news title, or user's previous post)
   (4) interweave the post and the article and send to the user
   (5) interview and discuss the experience

2. Introduce examples:
   (1) Reflexive printer


Reflexive printer from Benforest on Vimeo.

   (1) CrescendoMessage
   (2) AniPrinter

  Example
   One-hour photo

3. Ideation with Interaction Tarot