Designing Technology Fueled Social Objects
Ellen Dudley, Co-Founder, CrowdScanner
They have, over history, influenced our interactions, as their
abundance increases the social potential of a space, triggering
curiosity and questions and conversations; and their scarcity brings
anonymity, and dead space.
By creating technology fueled social objects, we can tap into the
wealth of social objects online that fuel online conversations, and
control and decorate the spaces around us, in order to better
demonstrate to each other, our personalities, and therefore have more
information fed to us in our physical world.
An example is a visual graph we created during an Ignite event in
September, and projected onto the walls to interfere with human
interactions: http://www.crowdscanner.com/graph/ And we will be using
again next week in an updated form. It's based on a lot of empirical
research we've been doing in our startup, http://crowdscanner.com,
over the past 2 years, watching and influencing how people interact,
converse and connect in real physical spaces.
For the audience at eComm, for people who are on the cutting edge of
communications, technology, and augmented reality, I want to inspire,
to bring about a change in our perception of what is even possible, to
reach a new understanding of the impact that our design and
application of physical social objects have on the richness of our
lives. It is rethinking the manner in which we approach bringing
technological tools to people.
We can fill our physical spaces with more rich contextual social
objects, using tools like tablets and smart phones, but also with
more creative solutions like picoprojectors and electronics. We can
tap into our personalities online, and bring them into our public
spaces, where they can be a source for more relevant human-to-human
interactions, based on the mutual interests that we choose to divulge
to the people around us.
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