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Protected: Course on design fiction 2014, general feedback

maxmollon — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 17:03:04 +0000

Protected: Course on design fiction 2014, how to mediate?

maxmollon — Fri, 30 May 2014 11:37:03 +0000

Protected: Course on design fiction 2014, how to balance?

maxmollon — Fri, 23 May 2014 17:45:01 +0000

Protected: Course on design fiction 2014, how to provoke reactions?

maxmollon — Sat, 17 May 2014 13:36:01 +0000

Protected: Course on design fiction 2014, how to switch to fiction?

maxmollon — Sun, 11 May 2014 15:28:15 +0000

Concept presentation – Ringdog, The Affective Phone

maxmollon — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:36:38 +0000

UK:
The Ringdog project is nothing more than a critic of mobile phone device of communication. My whole masters final project is a critic of nowadays tools of interpersonal communication.
I start from the statement that mobile phone is not sensible to our emotions and have been created for productive aims. It forces ourselves to concentrate our intentions of communication into voice intonation – to have the best quality of signal as said by Roseanne Allequere Stone in her Thesis – and it ignores any other source of communication other than voice – as an example this article on non-verbal language over the mobile phone.

Throughout the mobile we whisper to our loved one, the chick against a piece of plastic, we argue yelling against a piece of plastic, etc. On one side we have got a sensory frustration (tactile and proprioceptive) and a physical isolation towards the receiver.
On the other let’s take the human/dog relationship: affective, sincere, tactile.
Let’s mix the two provoque unexpected situations, new experiences of communication, new usages and try to change users habits on a longer period of time.

FR :
Je travail sur une critique de nos moyens de communication interpersonnelle et en particulier le téléphone mobile d’un point de vue affectif et émotionnel.
Je part du constat selon lequel le téléphone est insensible à nos émotions et à été inventé à des fins utilitaires. Il nous force à concentrer nos intentions de communications dans l’intonation de la voix – comme Roseanne Allequere Stone en parle dans son Doctorat – et il ignore tout indice de communication autre que la voix – pour exemple cet article sur le langage non-verbal délaissé en téléphonie mobile.

Au travers du mobile on susurre à sa bien aimée la joue contre un bout de plastique, on se dispute en criant contre un bout de plastique, etc.
D’un côté nous avons une frustration sensorielle (tactile et proprioceptive) et un isolement physique envers notre interlocuteur.
De l’autre prenons la relation homme/chien : affective, sincère, tactile.
Mixons les deux pour provoquer de nouvelles situations, de nouvelles expériences de communication, de nouveaux usages et tenter de changer les habitudes utilisateurs sur une longue periode.

CONCEPT:
How can we explore human/dog relationship to emotionally enhance our telecommunications?

TECHNOLOGY:
STRONG AND BEAUTIFUL MATERIAL (LEATHER, RESIN)

BI-DIRECTIONAL CALIBRATED MICROPHONE, HI-DEFINITION SPEAKERS

SIMPLE BLUETOOTH™ PHONE PAIRING
ULTRA LOW RADIO WAVES, NO HEALTH DANGER FOR THE ANIMAL
EASY PICK-UP BUTTON

USE CASES
Lovers, your most faithful friend is with you when loved ones are far away
BRING BACK THE AFFECTION YOU WOULD LIKE TO GIVE ON A PHONE
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuEy014n4vk]

Argument, he understands you and reacts to the conversation (Barking forces you to calm down)
BRING ALIVE FEEDBACK AS A MIRROR OF THE CONVERSATION MOOD
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9LBx99CK2k]

Playful, don’t forget it’s your dog!
BRING BACK LIFE, FUN AND SURPRISE TO YOUR COMMUNICATIONS!

BRINGs BACK EMOTION TO YOUR CONVERSATIONS
BE CLOSER TO YOUR DOG THAN EVER
NO MORE TACTILE FRUSTRATIONS WHEN TALKING ON THE PHONE

CONCEPT: REAL VS DIGITAL WORLD
CONNECTED VIRTUAL WORLD GENERATED A LACK OF PHYSICAL IMPLICATION
TECHNOLOGY GAVE US THE FRUSTRATING EMPOWERMENT OF UBIQUITY
ANIMALS CAN BE A TANGIBLE AND ALIVE LINK WITH THE NON-PHYSICAL WORLD

REJOIN COMMUNICATION AND EMOTIONS IN AN AFFECTIVE INTERFACE
ALIVE, CAPRICIOUS, MOVING, EMOTIONAL, RESPONDING…
BRING BACK LIFE IN OUR COMMUNICATIONS

NEXT :

First tester! Eliot.

Relative communication aid (2010)

maxmollon — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:12:11 +0000

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Title: Relative communication aid (2010)
By: Gerard Rallo
Link: http://www.ideesabsurdes.net/wordpress/?p=367
Keywords: device, socialInteraction, research, speculativeDesign, criticalDesign, communication
On my Flickr: xxx

Concept:
Replace your “routine” conversation by an automatic digitally displayed one to save your time : mindless communication
Description:
Most of the conversations we have through our life are redundant. This fact clashes with modern praise of time efficiency and real time data consumption.
This device tracks conversations you have throughout your entire life, analysing your patterns of communication. Eventually, when a repeated pattern is detected, the device is able to replace you in that conversation, allowing you a freedom to explore anything and everything else.

Be sure to check his other projects here: http://www.ideesabsurdes.net/

Opinion:
That project of critical design is nearly a dystopia for communication as it kills our richer channel of social interaction: live communication (even if it’s only for “routine” dialogues). I find it interesting as it emphases a real problem of nowaday: the omnipresent use of computers for our work gives ourselves habits, in our work being more efficient means spending less time to do things as well as fore communication which is often part of our work (e-mail, phone, chat’, etc), having the habits to save time on communications is something that brings terchnology because it facilitate social interaction, but therefore it turns the communication into a task where an economy of time can be made.

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