ARC8027 | Ambience and Atmospheres Newcastle University 02//2011
UPDATE | HOUSEKEEPING
BLOG
GROUPS OF THREE
UPDATE | TIMETABLE
1st Feb | Introduction 8th Feb | Architecture and Interaction Design 15th Feb | Ambience and Atmospheres + Newcastle Council Visit 22nd Feb | Workshop 1: Active Forms – Northumbria University? 29th Feb | Workshop 2 7th March | Proximity, Fields and Thresholds 14th March | Proposal Reviews EASETER VACATION: Project Development 18th April | Intelligence and Sentience 25th April | Tutorials 2nd May | Technical Review 9th May | No formal session 16th May | Final Review
KEY Tutor Led
Workshops Student Led
GRAHAM GRANT | Senior Transport Planner at Tyne and Wear Integrated Transport Authority
RECAP | The Tree of Interaction Design
CHARLES BABBAGE 1800’s Difference Engine
TOMMY FLOWERS 1940’s Colossus
ECKERT-MAUCHLY 1950’s UINVAC
XEROX 1980’s STAR
MARK WEISER 1980-90’s The most profound technologies are those that disappear.
UBIQITOUS COMPUTING 90’s – Networks, Miniature Low Powered Processors
ARDUINO 2000s Home Brew Microprocessor
Mathematics + Mechanical Engineering
Logic + Electrical Engineering
Psychology
Sociology + Anthropology
Art, Architecture, Media Design…..
ENGINEERING DESIGN
HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION
INTERACTION DESIGN
PROVOCATION | Ambient Computing?
HOMEWORK | BEYOND AMBIENT COMPUTING
1| Read Matt Jones article Journeying Toward Extravagant, Expressive, Place-based Computing in Interactions Magazine (on Blackboard). 2| Have a look at the Architecture and Situated Computing Pamphlet Series and any other sources (online or otherwise that you find interesting) 3| Find an example or examples of interaction design projects which go beyond ambient computing and change the architectural spaces in more subtle or profound ways. Blog about them before next week.
GRAHAM GRANT | Senior Transport Planner at Tyne and Wear Integrated Transport Authority
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