learning human behaviour

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2008-03-13T00:54:00.001+01:00

http://newconstruct.wordpress.com/

New blog in the making.

2008-03-10T11:12:00.004+01:00

In regards to accumulating problems with blogger,(such as now only sporadicly being able to upload pictures) I've given up; my patience has been stretched to a nausiating extent and run out. The process of creating and moving have already been established, but my main problem are right now time.
I'll let you know when the next blog will be up and running. -Hopefully within a couple of days.

Notes

2008-03-10T11:09:00.001+01:00

Electricity and Transduction:
Physical computing with Tom Igoe :: sensors by physical action.

Emitter Detector > registrating the physical shape /sensing and change in

Voltage >the electric energy
Resistance >how much room you have to come across
Current >flow

the range of possible values in analog resistors is in theory unlimited, but if a person cant recive a difference then there aren't really any..

Giving meaningful response ::
Getting response in a matter that mimics the reaction of animals or other familiar interactive objects can enable the understanding and trust of an action.

Interaction of transactions

2008-03-04T16:03:00.000+01:00

How should transactions be designed to take advantage of the change in interface?

CONSIDERATIONS FROM BRIEF:
1. The speed of transaction with the ability to simply touch a payment terminal with a mobile phone.
2. The ability to enter a pin number on one’s own device instead of using a terminal. With the ability to change the security level to suit individual requirements this should allow payment interactions to work more efficiently and to be more secure.
3. The ability to process more customers.

What kinds of interfaces would be ideal for transactions and how might they be implemented on the mobile phone? How might we add valuable new interactions, services or information into the transaction process that makes it more useful than simple payments? Might there be other significant downsides as we expose our phone for every transaction? What about keeping a phone concealed for safety or the perceived risk of disclosing personal data by touching un-trusted objects?

In collaboration with Alice Andreoli, I’ve studyed these emerging interactions, and looked upon how they can be implemented or designed around daily infrastructures, as we both want to look into how to design specific services with ideal use of “payment objects”

We want to look closer into relations between control/knowledge, visibility and trust.
We think the success of NFC depends on the usability of mobile payments and ticketing and wether or not the design of this experience is good /plesant /trustworthy.
What will provide the new payment history? How will we trust future systems? How might we as users act upon new opportunities in interactions of transactions?

I feel we need to find out more regarding trust and technological innovation and adoption. I want to look more into the intersections of technology, spaces and access / payment-culture.

ohm, sweet ohm! (project-survival-guidelines)

2008-02-13T10:51:00.012+01:00

Designing interaction in the physical world (TUI)

1. focus on experience prototypes (design delays/milliseconds/etc. or design around it.)

2. the wow-effect! evidencing the parts that will be the the front-end/users touch-points. (making them understand!)

Tools: processing and adurino. (Details and constraints, hacking and shortcuts.)

Sketching in hardware.

Svipptur

2008-02-07T20:06:00.005+01:00

Above: Kids-tickets to place on jacket/key-chain/etc. to enhance easy access.

This is some of the visual profile for the ticketing system for Ruter AS, (which is nearby all of the short-distance transport services umbrella-organisation here in Oslo.) We've called the sub-service/ticket-system "svipp" as in "svipp-tur" (Norwegian for a short, quick drop-of, in relation to transporting people.) We're basically working with a RFID travel-card you can top up as you need, designing the interaction of both normal-users and ticket-controllers.

Simple refill-rfid "flexi-card" topping up by mobile-phone: sms your code, followed by wanted amount of value to 2008, and you're ready to go!

Effekten av følelser og design :: Helge Tennø

2007-11-26T13:02:00.000+01:00

Kunden kundeopplevelsen og motivasjon.

Lite utfordringer i form av brukervennlighet og høy erskel for nyskapning.

Med bredbånd har ljslsfj okkupasjonstenking

1.førsteintrykket

2.kontakt

3.historiefortelling

4.overtale.

5.tilgjengeliggjøre

førsteintrykket fester seg og farger din oppfatning av merkevaren.

50 millisec. avgjør.

the haloeffect, man blir heletiden eksoponert for nye ting og reagerer uten å tenke.

snap desicion - argumentation. hjernen vil prøve å ignorere motbevisende elementer.

We pretend that what we do are rational and

Godt førsteintrykk:

Estetikk: clean plesant & symmetric.

Hjernen isolerer ut elementer den liker fra grensesnittet for en foretrukket opplevelse.

(god design. no design has ever been executed by a large committee.)

Til mer business til mer tekst! men tekst ser alltid likt ut.. ingen visuell diferensiering.

Folk finner frem! navigasjon styrt av persepsjon og ikke serverhastighet. Gitte Lingaard

Connect through emotions..

overføring av verdier i reklame. >emotional guidingfactors is nessesary to make desicions.

Nokia livsstil "alle de fantastiske muligheterne..!"

Trigge til å ønske å kjøpe! (Norske mobilselgere på nett selger ikke produkter!)

"Design s the only thing that differentiates one product from another."

"Love is overestimating the difference from one woman til another"

Storyteling; Creating needs from wants

(Skapt glede vs naturlig glede.)

WE SELL DREAMS -furniture at Domain. -Judy George.

...slik kunden kommer til oss og VIL tro.

"You must go beond useability. It is'nt simply removing obstacles but creating the desire that drives action."

Nettbutikk som et middel for å skaffe seg mobiltelefon?

Skaper frastjelt tid merverdi? : oppleves greit for kunden!

"How well he spoke".. vs. "Let's march!"

"Brukeren/kunden er en ape. ..du skal legge ut bananer. :the New Escalade"

"Mindre valg er bedre. for mange valg lammer brukeren og virker forvirrende."

counting souvenirs

2007-11-22T21:48:00.000+01:00

Little Poika from japanese Bandai is a little flame who wants to be a ballet-dancer.

This lamp/toy enters her candle-light stage as it gets dark (dancing around!) and goes to hide if you blow at her or it gets light enough again. (Poika is also supposed to play a tune if you tap the edge of the candle but mine does not seem to want to..)

http://rainbowspice.jp/poika/ for the whole story.

flourishing wall

2007-11-22T16:25:00.000+01:00

Throwing red balls at a blank white wall was all off a sudden a fantastic suprising and beautiful experience as it looked like the ball hitting the wall made projected flowers erupt and grow in a very neat animated manner.

(the solution for this perfect timing was not touch-sensored but a cam. that detected the red ball as it was in the air, and positioned "seeds"/ plants to be projected at that spot milliseconds after.)

hurrah! (robo 07)

2007-11-14T22:24:00.001+01:00

Ok, so these don't actually do much in comparison to industrial assembly robots, (also featured at the fair) but these toys and their stories are some of many which contribute to the way we envision "human robots" as we tend to design for known visions of the future. (More often than not it seems like we design from consciously or sub-consciously adopted ideas of the future, rather than create our own of alternative nows.. -just a stray thought.)

Hexbug

2007-11-11T22:03:00.000+01:00

One of many weird things from Tokyo: A robotic cockroach that responds to sounds and obstacles in its way. (it came with me back to Oslo and is now running around in my apartment. Luckily it does not reproduce quickly.)

Lost in translation. (and pretty much everything else.)

2007-11-07T15:57:00.000+01:00

Tokyo is sort of chaotic for someone not speaking japanese, despite all the lovely technology enabling new possibilities within interaction between humans (and nearly everything else).

That being said. Tokyo is the best city (or cities) in the world!

As I have very limited time left until I return to Norway the 9. of november, the hunt for experience and new knowledge is increasing quite intencely. -Peeking today as I hit the robo-2007 exhibition, and the Roppongi Crossing 2007. (the latest being the most impressive and hart-pumping, geeky contemporary art-exhibition I've ever been to.)

I've been peeping into some of my classmates blogs, to try and catch up in a sickening short amount of time,(thanks Knut!) and find that the only way to justify skipping school like I have these last days is the eye-opener this trip to Tokyo has been.

(Tiny hint: Anything is possible.)

Pre Tokyo :: QR

2007-10-28T18:16:00.000+01:00

Everyone seems to have these QR's (of Quick Response) on their websites..

Sort of bar-code system for accessing by mobile-phones.

You're supposed to take a picture of it (scan it) with your phone and you'll access the data stored in the tag or go to the link if it stores URL-addresses.

The system was initially used for tracking parts in vehicle manufacturing but are now all over in every visual media. The codes are also known as hardlinks and physical world hyperlinks and you can generate your own prints by visiting free QR-generating sites.

Pre Tokyo :: Tokyo Art Beat >findings

2007-10-28T15:57:00.000+01:00

Ill. by Thiago Batista, one of the people preforming at Cut and Paste, a battling-event between illustrators/visual artists/etc. for 15 minutes of fame. (forget all about DJ's and VJ's. THIS is it.. and the happening is of course sponored by Adobe.)

Pre Tokyo :: Tokyo Art Beat

2007-10-28T15:32:00.000+01:00

Sort of underskogish, but open to everyone. TAB provides a great overview of events happening in the city -within subcultures from art and design to museum-exhibitions etc.

day 4 of 8 sec. film

2007-10-25T11:31:00.000+02:00

As day 3 went into the bin due to the camera being "100 years old" according to the guy at sony-center/Oslo. (the result being all colours looked harsh and yellow and the image very "1992-home-video") Day 4 has been executed trying to benefit form the characteristics/restrictions given by the old lump/camera, and discovering how redicolous intuitive and easy imovie is..

(New challenge that worries me right now is how to go from 16 sec. to 8 without losing the essential feel of the clip.)

day 2 of producing 8 sec. for nrk.

2007-10-23T23:16:00.000+02:00

Sickest thing I ever saw. Why, oh why..

Look at how sleek and shiny and small it is. Almost invisible! Very discreet.

It is also super-fancy, with as many as overseemingly possible buttons, but still amazingly few functions. And the users-manual seems to be missing. Doh.

Luckily, I'm having less problems with what it's gonna help me produce.

NRK3 :: storytelling x2 :: Cecilie Lyng

2007-10-22T10:37:00.000+02:00

Task : Make films for NRK3

*NRKs total offer

*Perception of form and content

*What is NRK3 their wish and our impression.

*Process and guidance.

NRK=noe for alle, alltid.

3 tv-channels (4 offers)

13 radio-channel

Net nett.tv and nrk.no nett-radio.

MHP multimedia platform.

Mobile-phone services.

NRK1=mangfold

NRK2= aktualitet og bakgrunn

NRK3= Entertainment

NRK super= Childrens television

-The need of the viewer change through-out the week.

-Visual identity of all the medias are all based upon the same grid.

-viewers profile "usett"&"urørt"

8 sec. film

openness and acceptance (humor, feel-good, poetic, raw, and make you think)

where I am, where I have been, where I'm going.

(Hilde Jørgenvåg -green paper-wrapping.)

Knut Sverre,+ Karl Petter Knutsen :: Viritual Garden

2007-10-15T10:31:00.000+02:00

"People dont like ads but they crave for information ."

The user create the story as hey go.. Alternative ending in movies

A love-story on swedish television. The girls point of view, and the boys point of view in channel 1* and 2*

Tools

Classic storytelling: Get people to believe in the story and get the feeling of beeing there.

Parallel storyteling (Infinite drive)

Multipath, the utopia of interactive story; you can always go everywhere and bee anyone.

(Feel the fredom but yet directed)

Multimodal:

Topographic: travelling-sites etc.

Algorythmic: self/user-generating storys.

Baard Enoksen :: notes, storytellling-intro

2007-10-15T09:21:00.000+02:00

1. Branding: storytelling as designing the impression of a service. Ex Telebutiken "klar til jobb".

2. Learnig: SILDA saami game, 2005 ; about old saami culture and history for children in norwegian elementary-school. (though never completed.)

3. Interactive "påske-krim" solving the mystery of a murder in a flash-game.

Film has become the dominant media for storytelling. (also in news) What is the emotional effect? The camera is shaking=action. Games are judged by how it looks "real".

Perception :: Character :: Story

Shotgun storytelling (from Shindlers list) telling several things in different ways, and from MI 1 : manipulating the story where we pick up on small forecasting the story.

THE MONKY IN THE BRAIN. the subconsious and our understanding of the situation.

(we do the same thing with appearences ex. sandals and long hair. and people behave diffrently according to their perception.)

Lumumum-Takete the soft vs. the hard in the drama.

ex: sadness will stand out where all the other people are happy.

Larva.

2007-10-04T00:00:00.000+02:00

Inside "Slalom". The general feel of the graphics have changed a bit.

Catch some of these fellows to gain life, if bitten by the evil tick.

Harald Sodemann :: Simulation. (notes)

2007-10-02T09:08:00.000+02:00

A modelling framework

Make predictions from data.

EX: The relation between Coke and obesity. (Sugar=fat, due to human metabolism) (Weight *liters of Coke)

Real World > process > Abstraction model > modifying parameters > Simulation > data > compare/validate with the real world.

Abstract: Hypothesize & Reduction.

Take the real world apart (to the smallest components) and rebuild it.

Implementation: Feasability & Emphesize

Descriptive / Physical model.

The application will determin the result of your prediction, safety, education, testing, and so on.

Sience > Politics > Engineering.

Conceptual Models; population growth > oil resources > social dynamics in solidarity networks (cooperative behaviour)

Interactions between different models and processes to understand the whole.

EX: boxes from wether forecast : stratosphere to deep-sea level. (compare data to simulation)

Synne Skjulstad :: Research in practice (notes)

2007-10-01T13:09:00.000+02:00

How research in practice might work. Concepts:

usability, experience, thoughtful interaction-design and communication-design.

Jacob Nielsen´s view of useability:

"The functionalists meaning of useability / "quality of use", often counts out all that is not purely functional to a product." (the artistic ideal of expressing yourself or the ability to preform tasks the most efficiently and soling a problem for the customer.) Is the highest goal of useability just to solve the consumers specific problem? Useful for whom?

What are providing experiences?

Art as experience and acting with technology. (Mc Carthy & Wright)

Lövgren og Stolterman : introduce a design perspective on the creation and shaping of digital artefacts. (Pliability.)

What is it that gives the experience? How is a digital artefact designed so as to communicate something? (relocates focus from experience to artefact)

The holistic view sees interaction as integral to designing artefacts for mediated communication.

*Communicate as a whole. **Useability is not normative.

Branding as creating a image of yourself / your client. What image do you want the user to percive?

(Where do you stand? What do you focus on?

How it works? How it communicates? What experience is given by the product?(and why?)

How was the artefact shaped to give the experience?)

::Guidelines::

Dare to disagree with influential theorists.. (use as starting-point.))

And acknowledge work others have done before you: Distinguish your own work!

Digital narratives :: Telling stories (notes)

2007-10-01T10:07:00.000+02:00

From hypertext theory to information of Kontiki-museum on cd-rom. What s the purpose of the story?

Stories that have not been told.

Who´s telling the story, from what side

Rights ; who own the story, the pictures, etc.

Kontiki; the story of the journey. The facts and the fiction, (influenced by film, etc.)

the time of the story,the space of reading, meaning-making by the users /readers.

Users commenting text. (stand alone-text.)

What motivates the user? (detektive-story)

::Scitzofrenic teacher;you need to pussle the story together. (He does not know the story.) "Gallery of guilt", links. The story bout the story..

"Narra-hand" : Collaborative narrative; produce a peoples idntity in a new place, points of intrest from charakters: me the author = me the pupeter. The storys map in the physical world.

The Game (by marrol & me)

2007-09-28T12:47:00.000+02:00

Early sketches for our computer-game Flee-Olympics.

screensaver (peder/marrol/me)

2007-09-26T10:59:00.000+02:00

The screen-saver assignment ended up in a cellular fluidly moving structure.

The cells are dragged towards the center, pushing each other around.

The backdrop of the cells function as a clock, where it graduatly fades from light blue in the mid-day, to dark blue in the night.

ABOUT:

Long, long time ago screensavers were used t prevent the so-called screen-burn-effect, -a permanent disfigurement of areas on a CRT display caused by non-moving text or graphics being displayed continuously for long periods of time. To avoid this effect, screensavers have been used to blank the screen or fill it with moving images or patterns when the screen were not in use. Today screensavers don't serve their original purpose and are primarily used for entertainment. (In fact, they arent needed at all.)

They are however used today as fancy eye-candy for our coffee-breaks and can be extremely pretty and fascinating to look at.

Touch / NFC

2007-09-23T14:36:00.000+02:00

(The pretty picture is stolen from Timo´s Flickr-account.)

Touch, a research-program by Timo Arnall at AHO , is looking into how NFC may be of future (/alternative nows) use. NFC enables connections between mobile phones and physical things, and opens up for applications and services that enable people to interact with everyday-situations through their mobile-phones/devices.

arrays+pushMatrix&popMatrix

2007-09-20T11:23:00.000+02:00

Learnings for make benefits in processing (notes)

2007-09-20T10:10:00.000+02:00

interpolation= moving from one step to another, but in steps and over time.

constructor function as setup

[] Array in memory (array is p) create space p[0] =pointing to that spesific space

() Always an object.

Underwater drawing-tool

2007-09-18T17:05:00.000+02:00

Example by bubbly octopus.

Gunnar Garfors / NRK -New Media / Lecture

2007-09-17T10:04:00.000+02:00

New Media in NRK :television & radio & internet & mobile-tv.

New use of current media, new use of current products.

Should have started in 1995 but got out rather late, and have therefore come into the shadow of VG, Dagbladet when it comes to web. -but is amongst the top 3 what wap concernes..

THE HYPE:

User experiences; youtube vs. BBC 2005 til now youtube have exploded and gone far beond

People are watching less tv, but still get the same information and vidioclips (internet+wap.)

Usergenerated content / usergatherd.. "What do you want? ASK!"

"The snowmobile-effect" one enters a snow-mob. picture and suddenly you have five more.

Hilsen Norge=uneddited clips. + the local elections in Norway 2007. Codename Hunter= the social experience. Svisj: vote on music-videos by sms. (Rubemannen with Harald Eia: videoblog on mobile phones/facebook/e-bay etc.)

Voting

Competitions

Partisipation

Marked research

Downloads, i.e. cupons, branded, ringtones, games, screensavers etc.

Henrich Steimler, flash-animated talkshow, youtube advertising.

"Easy, pretty easy". = how to get the content..

Distributing on more platforms; getting the same content from new distributors.

Branding on different platforms; creating a more whole experience; Rubemannen/Henrich allso on facebook, second life and myspace. Problematicly segmented: nonscaleable communities. ot thinking about the whole.

Material behaviour/ physical & computational simulations.

2007-09-12T17:21:00.000+02:00

Due to my background in industrial design I´m currently combining my pursuit of a master in interaction design with a course in computational analysis and simulations by Steinar Killi at AHO.

Definitions:

1. "Simulation is the process of representing the dynamic behaviour of one system by the behaviour of an other system. " The Encyclopedia of Computer Science.

2. "Simulation is an analysis and planing tool that captures real world system variability and system-event interactions through time." www.simulationdynamics.com

Variations of simulations vary by the type of question to be answered. (Ex product/arcitecture: Renderings provide information of surfaces exposed to light == amount of shadow from the structure/self-shadow/light let through/possible heat-expansion/-contraction etc. )

(Physical simulation could be just measuring how much a pice of al. can take before it deforms)

The focus of this course will mostly be directed at material technology; computer aided manufacturing, element analyses, and end in a rapid prototyping project.

notes from Underskog/lecture with Even

2007-09-08T14:35:00.001+02:00

Underskog (/the undergrowth) is a web based usermoderated callender over events and likable stuff in general. Its infamous in Norway as one of the first social networking services and only opens by personal invite from someone who already use it. It was designed by Alex, Simen and Even for about 100-300 people and was supposed to be between friends and their friends friends,but has now grown above 10 000 users, still though between friends and their friends and so on.

Underskog is great for telling/getting to know where and when anything is at. -Is anyone I know going?/What does it cost?/Who recomend the event and so on.

The fact that Underskog is built as the eternal "dugnad" with no advertising, no business model and no expectations seems to have engaged a sort of intimate scene where everyone behaves rather nice. It could also be that you´re in there with your full name and the name of whom invited you, and youre sort of responsible if you make a mess.. You tend to trust the people in there, due to the social pressure, and there´s no need for a fascist dictator/moderator.

Analog girl in digital world.

2007-09-07T00:57:00.000+02:00

yet an other drawing with self made tool.

programming drawingtools

2007-09-06T14:51:00.000+02:00

..and it works! though the white colour was an unexpected default.

(colour picker at the bottom, increase and decrease of brush size at the top.)

The biggest problem so far is that I enjoy drawing with it more than writing and editing it.

input > something something magic++ > fancy output.

2007-09-05T19:50:00.000+02:00

Software as interactive, running performance.

"Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images,animation, and interaction." .."for learning, prototyping and production".

(www.processing.org) Basically; computer programming within the context of visual arts.

Output can be classified as strong or weak generative art. Strong: The system or process as an aesthetic object. Weak: Semi-automated creation using parametric rules.(infinite variations to mass customization; family of one-off products.)

Output 1.-8. are stills from tutorials done with Watz.

How do you do? How do you feel? How do you know?

2007-09-02T01:21:00.000+02:00

"Designing the way machines give feedback, by creating maps, paths and in general understandable ways of navigating through content" seems to be the most common way of describing what interaction design is today.

Divided into macro and micro views this can be seen as everything from designing relations between systems and people, down to the beautiful details in a website or product that just makes us feel happy..

Rituals

2007-08-31T19:42:00.000+02:00

The social consequences of technology and rituals emerging from it:

Rituals as simple everyday interactions, such as shaking or holding hands, behold universal dimensions and can be applied to possibly every set of demographic culture, (though the symbolic meaning may differ.) The rituals of everyday life also define who and what we are to different people. Technology tend to act as a contributor to developing cultural languages and rituals, based upon mutual understandings of common feelings.

Paper-prototyping a coffemachine

2007-08-31T00:05:00.000+02:00

testing the concept of ordering by selecting components on a touch-screen out on Petter Moshus, instituteleader.