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Immerse yourself in the sounds of the Arctic (Wired UK)
"Adams, Plaid and Persen combined the poem with electronic music and the ambisonic field recordings to produce a piece titled Nord Rute -- the first in a four-part collection of performances about indiginous peoples titled The Compass Series, which merge poetry from Valkaeapää, music from Plaid and ambient audio from Adams. Nord Rute is a narrative account of the Sami people's annual migration.

The resulting performance is described as a "three dimensional psycho-acoustic experience" and an "ambisonic narrative evocation". During a performance the floor is covered with reindeer pelts and surrounded by speakers that create a plane of sound within which blindfolded audience members can immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the journey across the frozen wastes. To enhance the experience, there'll be absolutely no heating -- blankets will be provided and schnapps will be served instead."
ambient  surroundsound  ambisonics  rossadams  sháman  korpiklaani  music  singing  joik  yoik  nomadism  nomads  sound  sápmi  russia  finland  sweden  norway  sami  tundra  arctic  2010  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Treehouses: Online community for internet // Speaker Deck
Notes here by litherland:

“The ephemerality of speech [sic] in these tools better affords intimacy.” Revisit. /

“That speech is temporal also means someone can be absent, which makes presence meaningful.” Makes a lot of assumptions; needs to rethink (or think harder about) what speech is. Or what he means by it. /

Concept of “intransient group memory.” /

Interesting thoughts about playgrounds. /

“Conversation is an iterated game, so your pseudo can be a strong identity even if it isn’t your *public commercial web face*.” [my emph] /

“Hosts use soft power to influence. The group still governs itself.” /

“Recording is corrosive to candid sharing, so a private internet space must be transient.” /
2012  markpaschal  dannyo'brien  via:litherland  heatherchamp  self-organization  openspace  hackerspaces  autonomy  richardbartle  johanhui  johanhuizinga  play  groupmemory  availabot  ephemerality  muds  space  place  alancooper  sovereignposture  secondlife  personalization  tomarmitage  animalcrossing  ambient  presence  minimumviabletreehouses  minecraft  gaming  games  clubhouses  socialmedia  darkmatter  privacy  sharing  conversation  groups  onlinetreehouses  treehouses  organizing  activism  community 
january 2012 by robertogreco
Augmented Empathy | Institute For The Future
"How can design bring empathy back in an increasingly disconnected world?  Modern war has lost traditional connection between soldiers on the battlefield and civilians at home.  Shifting enlistment to the poorest members of the nation, increased media coverage of data, rather than individuals, and government censorship has lead to apathy.  The Beat Empathy Device records the heartbeat of an anonymous soldier, and physically taps it into the chest of a civilian.  They share excitement, fear, calm, and death.  The news becomes news about your soldier, not just some soldier.  Now, imagine if this was your drivers license or Government ID."
design  empathy  biometrics  war  soldiers  beatempathydevice  data  heartbeat  dogtags  connection  ambientintimacy  ambient  dominicmuren  rachelhatch  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
You are listening to Los Angeles
losangeles  ambient  radio  music  audio  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Romance has lived too long upon this river [via: http://magicalnihilism.com/2010/12/29/romance-has-lived-too-long-upon-this-river/]
"Romance has lived too long upon this river; a single-serving web page that tells you how high the tide is at London Bridge: explicitly close up, but also, roughly, at a glance.<br />
The scale runs from zero metres (low tide is typically around 1m deep at London Bridge) to 7.6m (this is around the peak for Spring tides, so if the water fills the screen you know it’s a big one).<br />
The Thames and its related activities are of course the Hello World of real-time data, but I also wanted this to be useful. So Romance… also serves as a weather forecast, warning you if you need to wrap up or take a brolly when you go out." [Text from: http://shorttermmemoryloss.com/portfolio/project/romance-has-lived-too-long-upon-this-river/ ]
london  visualization  river  weather  art  ambient  forecasting  tides  Thames  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Bubblino: The Twitter-watching, bubble-blowing Arduino-bot
"Bubblino is a Twitter-monitoring, bubble-blowing Arduino-bot.<br />
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He watches twitter for a chosen keyword and every time he finds a new mention then he blows bubbles."
arduino  twitter  bubblino  microcontrollers  ambient  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
The Financialization of Everyday Life | varnelis.net
"For future generations, the experience of rediscovering long-lost friends will be unfamiliar. Similarly, new friends are all too easy to make. If alienation was in part the product of feeling alone in a city or in mass society, misunderstood and unable to find others like oneself, today the Internet makes it possible for us to connect to a massive number of dispersed, networked publics brought together around particular taste cultures. Through social networking sites, we come to regard each other as intimates even before we have met. Intimacy is now a matter of keeping up the "telecocoon," the steady, ambient conversation that keeps individuals together regardless of how far apart they are."
kazysvarnelis  networks  networkedpublics  urban  urbanism  isolation  alienation  cities  mobility  connections  dispersion  ambient  ambientconversation  ambientintimacy  looseties  etiquette  internet  web  social  socialnetworking  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
MicroPublicPlaces | Situated Technologies
"In response to two strong global vectors: the rise of pervasive information technologies and the privatization of the public sphere, Marc Böhlen and Hans Frei propose hybrid architectural programs called Micro Public Places (MMPs). MPPs combine insights from ambient intelligence, human computing, architecture, social engineering and urbanism to initiate ways to re- animate public life in contemporary societies. They offer access to things that are or should be available to all: air, water, medicine, books, etc. and combine machine learning procedures with subjective human intuition to make the public realm a contested space again."
mobile  ambient  opendata  architecture  pervasive  design  informatics  urban  community  public  human  humanintuition  intuition  air  water  medicine  books  society  ubicomp  humancomputing  computing  urbaninformatics  urbanism  socialengineering  ambientintelligence  ambientawareness  technology  information  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Hemisphere Games — Osmos
"Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack.

Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax… good things come to those who wait.

Progress from serenely ambient levels into varied and challenging worlds. Confront attractors, repulsors and intelligent motes with similar abilities and goals as you."
osmos  osx  ipad  iphone  mac  macosx  flow  videogames  games  gaming  toplay  physics  ambient  windows  applications  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
3.05: Gossip is Philosophy [via: http://preoccupations.tumblr.com/post/897984340/unfinished]
"The right word is "unfinished." Think of cultural products, or art works, or the people who use them even, as being unfinished. Permanently unfinished. We come from a cultural heritage that says things have a "nature," and that this nature is fixed and describable. We find more and more that this idea is insupportable - the "nature" of something is not by any means singular, and depends on where and when you find it, and what you want it for. The functional identity of things is a product of our interaction with them. And our own identities are products of our interaction with everything else. Now a lot of cultures far more "primitive" than ours take this entirely for granted - surely it is the whole basis of animism that the universe is a living, changing, changeable place. Does this make clearer why I welcome that African thing? It's not nostalgia or admiration of the exotic - it's saying, Here is a bundle of ideas that we would do well to learn from."
1995  kevinkelly  brianeno  art  generative  hypertext  philosophy  unfinished  imperfection  culture  via:preoccupations  africa  technology  wired  society  learning  nostalgia  animism  interactivity  interaction  functionalidentity  ambient  wabi-sabi  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
A New Era of Post-Productivity Computing? - O'Reilly Radar
"In our current relationship with technology, we bring our bodies, but our minds rule. “Don’t stop now, you’re on a roll. Yes, pick up that phone call, you can still answer these six emails. Follow Twitter while working on PowerPoint, why not?” Our minds push, demand, coax, and cajole. “No break yet, we’re not done. No dinner until this draft is done.” Our tyrannical minds conspire with enabling technologies and our bodies do their best to hang on for the wild ride....
attention  body  productivity  technology  computers  computing  lindastone  distraction  2010  apnea  control  ambient 
june 2010 by robertogreco
TACTILE SOUND & THE PURSUIT OF SILENCE IN A NOISY WORLD | The New York Public Library
"Through his book, In Pursuit of Silence : Listening for Meaning in a World of Noise, George Prochnik explores the benefits of decluttering our sonic world. Speaking with doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and citizens, Prochnik examines what gets lost when we can no longer find quiet. Some of the characters he's encountered on the road include:
architecture  biology  deaf  design  ecology  audio  sound  tactile  whales  listening  elephants  ocean  ambient 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Soundtrack for a City | Quiet Babylon
"The client sits on phone, downloads soundtrack – custom for city – pulls from location API, & mixes sounds according to instructions. There’s cleverness sure, some audio gee-whizery secret sauce, all very patentable & proprietary that seamlessly pulls it together. As you make your way from uptown to downtown, tone shifts gradually, like in Mr Q’s park but moreso. Mr Q is strictly last century, he’s amateur hour hacker hobbyist. It’s laying copper when we could be putting up cell towers in Africa. Disney doesn’t know from happiest place on earth.
audio  sound  ambient  cities  texture  gps  iphone  applications  rjdj  ambientawareness  location-based  soundpainting  maps  mapping  timmaly  quietbabylon  mobile  ar 
april 2010 by robertogreco
We Can Play Our Cities Like Instruments - D.U.S. - Design Under Sky
"The city becomes a useful digital playground of information. Cities would be designed to allow for citizen environment manipulation. Controlled from your phone turned remote control, transportation, dinner reservations are queued to your exact needs, a personal ambient soundtrack is sent through airwaves as you walk through the street.
urban  ubicomp  cities  locative  location-based  location-aware  geolocation  ambient  ambientawareness  sound  audio  immersion  landscape  design  experience  vurb 
february 2010 by robertogreco
On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno | The Observer
"On the intensity of ideas: If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas. You expect to be engaged with ideas strongly whether you are for or against them. If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture." + "On the naming of things: [...] that was music designed by leaving things out – that can be a form of innovation, knowing what to leave out. All the signs were in the air all around with ambient music in the mid 1970s, and other people were doing a similar thing. I just gave it a name. Which is exactly what it needed. A name. A name. Giving something a name can be just the same as inventing it. By naming something you create a difference. You say that this is now real. Names are very important."
brianeno  cv  interview  art  technology  ambient  music  naming  names  catholicism  belief  identity  ideas  intensity 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Weblog: Ambient Recommendation
"I think the reasons these more casual recommendation and discovery methods work better for me are 3-fold: 1. They allow me to employ my fuzzy, intuitive perception of peoples’ broader personality and taste to determine how likely I am to like the things they like (I thought the person on Brightkite looked cool, so I trusted her taste; I think my Last.fm friends are cool, so I trust that new stuff I see them playing will be interesting to me). 2. They aren’t explicitly recommendation systems, but rather allow people to implicitly recommend things just by going about their normal business (someone likes a web page so they post it to Delicious to remember it later, the hipsters at Frankies like Gene Clark so they play his music while they work and I hear it incidentally). I think people are more likely to participate in this kind of system than one where they are expected to formally recommend things. 3. They don’t require me to narrow what I’m looking for by overly specific criteria"
del.icio.us  design  learning  social  recommendations  brightkite  yelp  flickr  ubicomp  iphone  community  portland  oregon  travel  taste  discovery  serendipity  seach  ambient  inspiration  perception  intuition  interest 
december 2009 by robertogreco
CitySounds.fm - The music of cities
"Hello and welcome to CitySounds.fm! Here you can listen to the latest music from your favorite cities around the world.
via:preoccupations  music  cities  international  urban  ambient  streaming  sound  sounds  audio  world  aggregation  citysounds 
august 2009 by robertogreco
WideNoise · Ever heard of sound pollution?
"WideNoise is the iPhone and iPod Touch application that samples decibel noise levels, and displays them on a worldwide interactive map" via: http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/widenoise_to_let_all_familiarize_with_the_concept_of_spimes_12460.asp see also: http://www.openspime.com/2009/01/25/widenoise-to-let-all-familiarize-with-the-concept-of-spimes/
applications  iphone  infographics  spimes  noise  monitoring  geolocation  pollution  sound  environment  mobile  ambient  tracking  audio  collaborative  sensors 
january 2009 by robertogreco
BLDGBLOG: The Year of Listening
"After all, he concludes, "2009 will be a year of listening."
bldgblog  listening  sound  audio  recording  ambient  soundscapes  observation 
january 2009 by robertogreco
Buddha Machine 2 released: Ambient device - Digital Tools
"The Buddha Machine is a small audio-gear, some kind of "multipurpose ambient device". It is a small portable device with batteries, a speaker and some build-in audioloops. You can select the soothing loops and they keep on playing. With two controllers you can select the volume and (this is the special part) the pitch of the loop. Nothing really special, compared to the things you can do with audio-software, but this device is very charming and inviting to some nice uses."
music  ambient  gadgets  gifts  sound 
november 2008 by robertogreco
YouTube - First contact with RjDj
"This video shows listeners discovering the RjDj application, and let you hear what they hear."
rjdj  iphone  music  audio  ambient 
october 2008 by robertogreco
The Long Now Blog » Blog Archive » Eno Blooms
"Brian Eno has conspired with Peter Chilvers on a recently released iPhone app called Bloom that allows you to make your own generative music. (see video above) While at best I would be labeled as “musically challenged,” I found it addictive and easy to make a soundtrack to my daily activities with this tool. Very fun, and definitely a higher brow activity than Guitar Hero."
brianeno  iphone  applications  music  generative  csiap  ambient 
october 2008 by robertogreco
RJDJ - The iPhone will addict you to music again! - Digital Tools - Homebrew, Computer Art, Tools and Game Design.
"Finally exquisite news again, where people from Cologne (and Vienna I think) were really involved in. The RJDJ is an iPhone application, that will turn your life into an interactive musicvideo. It plays music, that will be modified by sensory input. In other words you have music, that reacts to sensory and environmental input. It makes use of different sensors, like the microphone, the acceleration sensor and the touchpad. RJDJ turns your mobile phone into a very complex mixture of music playing device, music instrument or reality shaping artifact. The creators say about it, that it is "like glasses for your ears". They are right. Not only for them the RJDJ is a "digital drug"."
rjdj  music  iphone  applications  ambient  sound  csiap 
october 2008 by robertogreco
YouTube - RjDj The mind twisting hearing sensation. [recalls: http://web.media.mit.edu/~nvawter/thesis/index.html]
"RjDj is a music application for the Iphone. It uses sensory input to generate and control music you are listening to. RjDj is mainly consumed with headphones. Think of it as the next generation of walkman or mp3 player. The consumer experience of RjDj is similar to the effects of drugs. Drugs affect our sensory perception, so does RjDj. RjDj is a mind twisting hearing sensation." more: http://www.rjdj.me/
iphone  applications  environment  music  ambient  digital  sound  rjdj  csiap 
october 2008 by robertogreco
LIFT || The Luminous Bath: our new volumetric medium, Ben Cerveny
bencerveny  behavior  information  metadata  flow  ubicomp  networks  patterns  taxonomy  rss  simulations  onemachine  ai  human  complexity  swarm  flock  ambient  luminousbath 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Peripheral vision and ambient knowledge :: Blog :: Headshift
"We need to let people organise their inputs by exposing all relevant information in granular feed form and then provide smart aggregation and tagging tools to create a personal eco-system of content, cues and links."
via:preoccupations  filtering  infooverload  flow  feeds  rss  tagging  tags  content  information  management  knowledge  ambient 
july 2008 by robertogreco
The Long Now Blog » Blog Archive » Will Wright and Brian Eno - “Playing with Time” - ""Building models, said Wright, is what we do in computer games, and it’s what we do in life...
"...First it’s models of how the world works, then it’s models of how other humans work....[with games] You get to explore other paths to take in the same situation. Eno: “That’s what we do with everything I call culture"
willwright  brianeno  games  play  life  ambient  generative  spore  longnow  stewartbrand  creativity  gamedesign  process 
july 2008 by robertogreco
disambiguity - » Some unformed thoughts on Ambient Intimacy for the next generation
"The ability to stay in touch with people that we have stronger or weaker ties with in this light weight way will be something available to them from a very young age and...throughout their entire lives. What do you imagine the repercussions will be?"
ambientintimacy  children  future  relationships  socialnetworks  socialsoftware  privacy  ambient  identity  intimacy  contacts 
july 2008 by robertogreco
f r e e g o r i f e r o | weblog - Finding beauty in the everyday. - "Mike Bukhin interviewed on Nokia's N-Series blog"
"With the applications I build, you don't have to step out of your life to get an alternative perspective on your everyday. It is either presented to you automatically or is alongside you, available whenever you are interested in something new."
mobile  applications  design  life  simplicity  beauty  perspective  enhancement  focus  ambient 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Twitter / andy_house
"Inventor Andy Stanford-Clark has set up a twitter account for his house. This allows his home automation system to keep him updated about lighting, security, energy usage, etc. while he is away. Check out this great example of the potential for ambient i

[via: http://archinect.com/news/article.php?id=74475_0_24_0_C]
automation  control  environment  information  ambient  spimes  housing  messaging  remote  twitter  sensors  architecture  power  monitoring  ubicomp  sustainability  transparency  green  energy  consumption 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Archinect : News : the talking house
"Inventor Andy Stanford-Clark has set up a twitter account for his house. This allows his home automation system to keep him updated about lighting, security, energy usage, etc. while he is away. Check out this great example of the potential for ambient i
twitter  architecture  homes  automation  ambient  web  online  internet  spimes 
april 2008 by robertogreco
OpenSpime - project of WideTag Inc, technology infrastructure company providing hardware & software solutions for open Internet of Things
"Our technology enables individuals and corporations to better understand their environment, through the use of a series of GPS-enabled sensors. We provide a set of open APIs and communication protocols to manage the data collected."
geolocation  gps  spimes  rfid  sensors  climatechange  internet  network  hardware  brucesterling  ambient  location  locative  location-based  monitoring  everyware  future  ubicomp  ubiquitous  visualization  mobile  carbon  via:timo 
april 2008 by robertogreco
disambiguity - » Ambient Exposure
"Education is probably the best way to help people manage exposure via content, but one of the key challenges for designers in social spaces is to design tools that support awareness and management of this exposure through unruly contact lists."
socialsoftware  socialnetworks  twitter  exposure  ambientintimacy  ambientexposure  privacy  relationships  online  web  internet  facebook  ambient  microblogging  socialnetworking  media  mobile  network  surveillance  friendship  sociality  intimacy  community 
april 2008 by robertogreco
MOBIlearn Project - Home
"MOBIlearn is a worldwide European-led research and development project exploring context-sensitive approaches to informal, problem-based and workplace learning by using key advances in mobile technologies."
informallearning  learning  personallearning  mobile  phones  location-based  locative  location  ambient  pervasive  ubicomp  everyware  presentations  mikesharples  games  wireless 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Mike Sharples
"Professor of Learning Sciences & Director of Learning Sciences Research Institute at University of Nottingham. The focus of the LSRI is to explore theories and practices of learning and to design and evaluate novel learning technologies and environments.
informallearning  learning  personallearning  mobile  phones  location-based  locative  location  ambient  pervasive  ubicomp  everyware  presentations  mikesharples  e-learning 
april 2008 by robertogreco
SlideShare » Mike Sharple: Disruptive Mobile Learning, Evaluation Methods for Mobile Learning, Ambient Learning
"Professor of Learning Sciences & Director of Learning Sciences Research Institute at University of Nottingham. The focus of the LSRI is to explore theories and practices of learning and to design and evaluate novel learning technologies and environments.
informallearning  learning  personallearning  mobile  phones  location-based  locative  location  ambient  pervasive  ubicomp  everyware  presentations  mikesharples 
april 2008 by robertogreco
Blackhole Media - Noise
"pink noise masks background noise to help you concentrate. Now with source code and white noise, for those less colorful. Drown out annoying roommates and co-workers today!"
attention  productivity  focus  work  software  osx  sound  audio  noise  freeware  headphones  ambient  adhd  distraction 
april 2008 by robertogreco
DIY KYOTO
"DIY KYOTO value simple things, and seek to produce products of perfect convenience and utility, elegant in their conception and efficient in their operation"
sustainability  environment  electronics  climatechange  conservation  electricity  energy  ambient  wattson  power  globalwarming  visualization  sensors  gadgets 
march 2008 by robertogreco
russell davies: rung tones
"as technology learns to be social it's also got to learn to be polite. And the best way for a sound to be polite is for you to be able to hear it, but no-one else. And you can't do that with volume, you have to create something that's personal and releva
sound  phones  ringtones  russelldavies  technology  etiquette  attention  ambient 
january 2008 by robertogreco
framework
"phonography/field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity"
ambient  audio  field  sound  recording  sounds  streaming  radio  podcast  music 
november 2007 by robertogreco
What Google has planned for Jaiku? « Jonathan Mulholland
"Jaiku potentially gives Google Holy Grail - time relevant, location based targeting of info, personalised to very high degree...not a million miles away from being able to push appropriate advertising to individuals based on profile, location & availabil
jaiku  google  microblogging  mobile  mobility  ambientintimacy  ambient  locative  location-based  awareness  future  innovation  internet  location  technology  trends  web  online 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Orange Cone: ThingM makes a smart object
"fundamental change that information processing goes through when it becomes ubiquitous. One of the ways I've been discussing this transformation in the last couple of years is by talking about information as a material"
ubicomp  everyware  ambient  design  slides  information  smart-objects  technology  objects  research 
november 2007 by robertogreco
chris hand
"I'm particularly interested in physical/tangible computing, fiction in design, expressive/performance interfaces, social aspects of hardware and software, open source tools, music technology, and lots of other things."
art  artist  design  interaction  interactive  interface  london  gamechanging  usability  performance  social  location-based  gps  music  opensource  ambient  children  society 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » An intriguing location-based service and the importance of "measurement"
"a portable/wearable device aimed at “dwellers of small towns who yearn for edginess of living in a big city: “enables users to designate any arbitrary space in their town, no matter how dull or empty, as one of their “Thrill Zones”, simply by dra
gps  maps  technology  location-based  fauxurban  urban  sensing  cities  urbanism  rural  ambient  location  locative 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Flux » Articles » Innovation in m-learning
"Where are the exciting new practices that make real use of the unique affordances of mobile devices going to come from? Apart from government or LA sponsored projects where is the diversity of potential practice going to come from?"
mobile  phones  learning  education  schools  teaching  students  gamechanging  iphone  vles  diversity  innovation  lcproject  alternative  change  reform  experiments  experience  ambient 
october 2007 by robertogreco
syntonic: Definition and Much More from Answers.com
"Psychology. Characterized by a high degree of emotional responsiveness to the environment."
words  psychology  mood  emotions  environment  ambient 
october 2007 by robertogreco
cityofsound: Honda Puyo
"The Puyo's visual approach may be quieter and no more discreet, but I do like the idea of the car communicating its state and behaviour with subtlety."
honda  cars  future  ambient  expression  japan  puyo  hondapuyo  transportation  personality 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Early look: Honda PUYO Concept
"Designed as a 'Seamless Soft Box,' the PUYO uses a gel body to help protect pedestrians in case of an accident..."PUYO is a Japanese onomatopoeia that expresses the sensation of touching the vehicle's soft body."...glows, aiding in nighttime visibility"
cars  future  honda  puyo  safety  transportation  hondapuyo  personality  ambient  expression 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Social value of location-based content collection
"alternative approach for location-based technologies“...collecting & keeping of content can have important social values over & above simply consuming the content in situ"
location  location-based  ambient  ambientintimacy  memory  content  locative 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Design for the Location Revolution?
"Although things have been achieved in the academia, it’s as if we had troubles going beyond the current state in gaming, social computing or navigation. My point here is not to criticize this blogpost but rather to show that LBS innovation is VERY slow
gps  future  location  location-based  ambientintimacy  ambient  mobile  phones  locative 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Dopplr Blog » In rainbows
"As you add trips to different destinations, Dopplr’s logo becomes your logo, reflecting what you’re doing - right the way through to the ‘favicon‘ that shows up in the address field of most browsers."
algorithms  color  design  graphics  infographics  logos  programming  dynamic  dopplr  sparklines  evolution  sparklogo  favicons  place  ambient  location-based  locative  location  glancing  evolvinglogos 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Joho the Blog: From data to presence
"as we access net through a computer, it's a place we visit. As...something we carry with us everywhere, it swallows us whole. Our presence...becomes constant, intertwingled w/ real world, connected in ways that will emerge from constancy/intertwingling."
via:preoccupations  net  wen  online  presence  ambient  ambientintimacy  jaiku  google  mobile  phones  convergence  location-based 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Nebula - Royal Philips
"Nebula is an interactive projection system designed to enrich the experience of going to bed, sleeping and waking up. It provides intuitive and natural ways of physically participating in a virtual experience, through simple body movements and gestures."
sleep  research  design  homes  play  messaging  drawing  projectors  ambient  movement  interactive  interaction  interface  furniture 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Biko Games - Royal Philips
"The Navigator Game uses communication technology to link children together, allowing them to play simple games such as hide-and-seek and follow-the-leader."
children  games  play  locative  location  location-based  gps  ambient  technology  geography  mapping  maps 
october 2007 by robertogreco
New Nomads - Royal Philips
"New Nomads illustrates the research that Philips Design, together with Philips Research, has carried out on wearable electronics.
neo-nomads  nomads  clothing  wearable  electronics  research  ambient  ambientintimacy  sensory  embedded 
october 2007 by robertogreco
No kidding - Royal Philips
"This garments uses mobile phone and camera technology to help parents pin point their kids' position, but also fabric antennas, radio tagging and miniature remote cameras to allow children to play exciting games outdoors."
children  clothing  neo-nomads  nomads  play  annotation  kids  location  location-based  ambient  ambientintimacy  gps 
october 2007 by robertogreco
YouTube - Handheld Projector Demo
"Imagine having a projector inside your cell phone or PDA, what can you do with it? Researchers from University of Toronto made a cool demo."
interaction  interactive  interface  mobile  physical  ambient  annotation  location-based 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Soundwalk - Audio Tours for People Who Don't Normally Take Audio Tours.
"An innovative product appropriate to this new millennium, Soundwalk is a new form of media, whereas one virtually interacts with his or her surroundings. How is it done? Easy, you purchase the walk, go to the starting point, put your headphones on, press
annotation  walking  urban  technology  tourism  running  podcasts  audio  geotagging  geography  travel  local  locative  location-based  location  ambient  everyware  ubicomp  ubiquitous  gps 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Semapedia.org: index
"Our goal is to connect the virtual and physical world by bringing the right information from the internet to the relevant place in physical space."
aggregator  location-based  ambient  annotation  taxonomy  folksonomy  semantic  semantics  semanticweb  mobile  phones  locative  location  maps  mapping  local  learning  information  geotagging  interactive  hyperlinks  qrcodes  socialnetworks  socialsoftware  semacode  tagging  geocoding  geography  everyware  ubicomp  ubiquitous 
october 2007 by robertogreco
disambiguity - » Ambient Intimacy
"Ambient intimacy is about being able to keep in touch with people with a level of regularity and intimacy that you wouldn’t usually have access to, because time and space conspire to make it impossible."
ambientintimacy  awareness  behavior  communication  community  human  friendship  socialsoftware  socialnetworks  networking  networks  newmedia  interaction  jaiku  twitter  trends  technology  sociology  ui  ubicomp  culture  design  identity  im  connections  emotions  language  presence  flickr  psychology  relationships  ambient 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Neuroeconomics, Neuroaesthetics, and Communications Industry Development
"3 models for communication: information transfer, storytelling, and presence. While analysis of communication has tended to employ first 2, the 3rd provides a better orientation for recognizing & organizing useful knowledge about sensuous choices in comm
ambientintimacy  ambient  presence  storytelling  communication  games  social  mobile  phones  nokia  information  data 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Putting people first » The fifth screen of tomorrow
"...is already on the horizon. A screen perhaps without a screen, without contact even, or on the contrary connected through a multitude of extensions....that will highlight the evolution towards more autonomy and more mobility"
interactiondesign  socialsoftware  mobile  phones  future  participatory  social  socialnetworks  presence  autonomy  place  ambientfindability  everyware  ubicomp  ubiquitous  ambient  ambientintimacy  networks  fifthscreen  gps  cities  flux  annotation  nearfield  ux  media  research  networking  mobility  access  information  locative  location-based  location  awareness  flow  gamechanging  sousveillance  online  internet  web  embedded 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Putting people first » Communication is king and presence is a prince
"3 basic modes of communication: presence (sensuous sense of the other person being with you, social bonding); storytelling (narrative of a game, lyrics/emotions of song, scenes of movie); pure information transfer (want a taxi! tomorrow’s weather?)"
ambientintimacy  ambient  presence  storytelling  communication  games  social  mobile  phones  nokia  information  data 
october 2007 by robertogreco
zengestrom.com: Tim O'Reilly on what's missing from the iPhone
"As he abandoned his Nokia S60 phone for an iPhone, he found himself missing the presence-enabled phonebook we created for the Nokia handsets."
jaiku  iphone  mobile  presence  ambient  ambientintimacy  social  web2.0 
october 2007 by robertogreco
disambiguity - » Ambient Intimacy at the Future of Web Apps
"I was very happy to have the opportunity to hop up and share my thoughts on Ambient Intimacy at the Future of Web Apps conference in London yesterday. The slides are above."
ambient  net  internet  social  networks  socialnetworking  gamechanging  networking  socialnetworks  intimacy  human  connections  web  online  ambientintimacy  continuouspartialfriendship 
october 2007 by robertogreco
FOWA07b: Leisa Reichelt. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos
"we're expending almost no energy at all on getting to grips with this info, it's just there to take it all in if we want. These are the kind of things that represent ambient intimacy that are really lightweight powerful ways to communicate: twitter, flic
ambient  net  internet  social  networks  socialnetworking  networking  socialnetworks  intimacy  human  connections  web  online  ambientintimacy  continuouspartialfriendship 
october 2007 by robertogreco
ongoing · The Intimate Internet
"won’t have to rely on professional noticers to tell you [what the next big thing is] because it’ll touch your life directly. Probably by opening another conduit for the flow of ambient intimacy...sinking ever more deeply into the ambient Internet hum
ambient  net  internet  social  networks  socialnetworking  networking  socialnetworks  intimacy  human  connections  web  online  ambientintimacy  continuouspartialfriendship 
october 2007 by robertogreco
Real Time Rome
"The project aggregated data from cell phones (obtained using Telecom Italia's innovative Lochness platform), buses and taxis in Rome to better understand urban dynamics in real time."
rome  italy  mapping  maps  mobile  phones  visualization  analysis  architecture  ambient  surveillance  technology  cartography  cities  culture  movement  society  social  urbanism  urban  travel  tracking  traffic  networks  data  flow  infographics  interaction  location  locative 
september 2007 by robertogreco
SCR | KAZE TO DESKTOP
""Kaze to Desktop" is a screensaver which moves according to the current wind (=kaze) conditions of your city."
ambient  screensaver  software  interface  weather  wind  fun  awareness  freeware  windows  desktop  ubiquitous  japan 
september 2007 by robertogreco
zengestrom.com: Opening up the social graph
"People look for two qualities in this type of infrastructure provider: 1) critical mass and 2) ethics. It should appear stable enough that it's reasonable to expect it to stick around...and since we trust it with our data its intentions have to come acro
socialgraph  api  applications  code  collaboration  communication  community  development  information  networking  networks  open  openid  people  portability  privacy  profile  socialnetworking  social  socialsoftware  socialnetworks  relationships  reputation  facebook  jaiku  identity  standards  distributed  google  ambientintimacy  ambient  jyriengestrom 
september 2007 by robertogreco
Pulse Laser » Blog Archive » BBC Olinda digital radio: Social hardware
"What Olinda isn’t is a far-future concept piece or a smoke-and-mirrors prototype. There’s no hidden Mac Mini–it’s a standalone, fully operational, social, digital radio."
ambient  creativecommons  design  devices  radio  bbc  socialsoftware  social  prototype  technology  usability  ux  mattwebb  opensource  programming  hardware  future  experience  digital  jackschulze  interface  api  schulzeandwebb  berg  berglondon 
august 2007 by robertogreco
Ambient Findability and The Future of Search
"At the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet, the user experience is out of ... all » control, and findability is the real story. Access changes the game. We can select our sources and choose our news. We can find who and what we need, whe
ambient  video  petermorville  technology  search  information  findability  google  trends  ubiquitous  ubicomp  computing  mobile 
august 2007 by robertogreco
Clive Thompson Thinks: Desktop Orb Could Reform Energy Hogs
"So here's the radical idea: Maybe the real killer app for ambient information isn't alleviating data overload or tracking investments. Maybe it's taming global warming. To improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions, we first need to make omnipresent
ambient  conservation  devices  energy  green  sustainability  visualization  electricity  economics  environment  gadgets  technology 
july 2007 by robertogreco
pasta and vinegar » “Offline gaming” opportunities in mobile gaming
Strictly speaking “offline gaming” should only refer to game played out of the network but we started using it for the square “no network/no display” (maybe because “off-the-screen-offline” is not really nice to pronounce)
games  gestures  offline  online  networks  play  locative  location  location-based  movement  motion  physical  gps  ambient  touch 
march 2007 by robertogreco
Near Future Laboratory » Game Week Musings — Offline Gaming? A Near Future for Electronic Play?
games  location  locative  location-based  play  physical  environment  online  offline  wii  motion  movement  gps  ambient  touch  julianbleecker  lifeasgame  gaming 
march 2007 by robertogreco
BLDGBLOG: Cover Bands of Space
"I recorded a period of whatever sound was there: cars going by, dogs, people. I thought nothing much of it... I suddenly had this idea. What about if I take a section of this – a 3-1/2 minute section, the length of single – and I tried to learn it?"
brianeno  ambient  brain  design  music  psychology  memory  landscape  time  cities  location  environment 
march 2007 by robertogreco
ID @ NUS : NUS Design Incubation Centre (DIC) won Gold Prize from International Design Competition Osaka 2006.
"Dandella is a hand-held GPS tracking device designed to help and guide the lost by always physically pointing towards the destination."
ambient  gadgets  gps  children  design  locative 
february 2007 by robertogreco
http://web.media.mit.edu/~nvawter/thesis/index.html
"Ambient Addition is a Walkman with binaural microphones. A tiny Digital Signal Processing (DSP) chip analyzes the microphone's sound and superimposes a layer of harmony and rhythm on top of the listener's world. In the new context, some surprising behavi
ambient  audio  cities  electronics  music  sound  space  interaction  place  play  architecture  psychogeography  soundscapes  sounds  mit  art  walking  wearable  installation  headphones  medialab  ipod  future  interface  noise  processing  portable  multimedia  monitoring  mobile  environment  dynamic  newmedia 
december 2006 by robertogreco
Ambient Signifiers - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
"How I Learned to Stop Getting Lost and Love Tokyo Rail"
ambient  design  development  sound  flow  transportation  usability  color  css  audio  webdesign  japan  tools  tokyo  web 
september 2006 by robertogreco
Chumby Industries
"Introducing chumby, a compact device that can act like a clock radio, but is way more flexible and fun. It uses the wireless internet connection you already have to fetch cool stuff from the web: music, the latest news, box scores, animations, celebrity
media  web  flash  fun  future  technology  toys  ubicomp  ambient  devices  electronics  wireless  wifi  radio  hardware  internet  life  rss  consumer  news  plush  networks  crafts  widgets 
august 2006 by robertogreco
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