week 3. ubiquitous computing and calm technology

1. Broken IT probes 
reference frames: object -> practice -> meanings
reference theory: activity theory (on interaction design org)

reference book: Understanding Media by McLuhan (麥克魯漢， 認識媒體)
1, 媒體四大律:
增強?削弱?重拾?轉化?
(參考"數位麥克魯漢")
2. hot media vs. cool media (熱媒體 vs. 冷媒體)

3. rear-view mirror (後視鏡理論現象)

4. The medium is the message (媒體即訊息)

5. Understanding media: the extension of man (媒體: 人的延伸)

Thing ethnography?

Thing Constellation?

(The co-occurrence of things) 

Elisa Giaccardi, Nazli Cila, Chris Speed, and Melissa Caldwell. 2016. Thing Ethnography: Doing Design Research with Non-Humans. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 377–387. https://doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901905

Yu-Ting Cheng, Mathias Funk, Wenn-Chieh Tsai, and Lin-Lin Chen. 2019. Peekaboo Cam: Designing an Observational Camera for Home Ecologies Concerning Privacy. In Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 823–836. https://doi.org/10.1145/3322276.3323699

Yi-Ching (Janet) Huang, Yu-Ting Cheng, Rung-Huei Liang, Jane Yung-jen Hsu, and Lin-Lin Chen. 2021. Thing Constellation Visualizer: Exploring Emergent Relationships of Everyday Objects. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 5, CSCW2, Article 479 (October 2021), 29 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3479866

2. Ubiquitous Computing / Calm Technology / Ambient Intelligence

Discussion on
Mark Weiser, Computer for the 21st Century
Mark Weiser, Designing Calm Technology

3. 

Questions:
1. How do we live with data?
2. How do we perceive (feel) the data we live with?
3. What is the form of data to live with?
4. How are the correlation of different data?

EX2: living with data

Conduct an activity to answer the above questions.
Presentation date: Oct. 3, 2022.

References:

Paul Dourish and Edgar Gómez Cruz. 2018. Datafication and data fiction: Narrating data and narrating with data. Big Data & Society 5, 2 (2018). 

Felix Heibeck, Alexis Hope, and Julie Legault. 2014. Sensory Fiction: A Design Fiction of Emotional Computation. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Immersive Media Experiences (ImmersiveMe '14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 35–40. https://doi.org/10.1145/2660579.2660585

Case study:
Objects of Research

Ambient Devices (where is ambient orb or umbrella?)


Reference:
Ambient Intelligence
connected home product
Experiencing the Affective Diary
Reflecting on the design process of the Affective Diary

Enhancing ubiquitous computing with user interpretation: field testing the home health horoscope