Place Richard Harper Microsoft Research Cambridge

Place

Richard HarperMicrosoft Research Cambridge

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Overview

• What has been the problem– Offices

• A new way of thinking• Types of places

– Bodies– Homes– 3rd Places

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Offices

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Digital stuff…..

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Why go to work?

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Dionysian tribalism…

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Surfaces in places

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Being there lets you do things

Put up data

Carving the screen

Parcelling stuff

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Bodies….

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Gifting

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Intimate

Private

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Messaging to a body

Whisperings

Glancings

Touches

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Homes

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Messages that matter

In the kitchen

For those there

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3rd Places

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Stuff for that place

Bluejacking

Adverts for that place

TV for that place

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Navigation for all this

Ease of use

EG’s become ‘clippers’

Human Factors in Place