Concepts
From MediaFranca
The state of nature is about simplicity. The state of human thought has become progressively complex because we seek sophistication over simplicity. The most wonderful things in the world are also the simplest. Simplicity delayers confusion. When confusion evaporates, attraction begins. What is complex about a child's toothless smile? It does not lend itself to multiplicity of interpretation. Response to it is not regionally varied or culturally dependent.
Mahatma Gandhi
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cameraphone with metadata
The mobile device has a camera embedded with a big screen. When you see the world through your camera (preferably landscape-oriented) it will display icons over certain objects. If you select an icon, you can access further content as a post referred or related with the object/place attached to it.
- Do you think you would be likely to access these posts if they where available in your surroundings?
- What content would make sense in such a context?
- Define a scenario
seeding the space
You can capture moments with your cellphone (photos, audio & video). Your friend is making a sarcastic and very funny parody of a monument. You decide to shot a video of him with your cameraphone. With a simple hand gesture over the phone, you plant the post in the same site you took the picture, so others passing through can access the content and elaborate/comment it.
- Would you make your pictures or videos available to general public?
- Or would you prefer to make them available just to your closest friends?
- It this trend get popular, how do you think the ecology of posting should overcome the pollution of excessive posts in our surroundings?
- Who do you think should have the right to post?
inflating posts
You are making a queue for checking your account at the bank. You decide to check your phone for surrounding posts. You discover a recent post from a stranger regarding a complain about poor service at the bank. You realize that the person received an unfair treatment and you support his complain. When you approve/support the post it gets bigger (you inflate the complain) so more people are likely to see it and read it.
- What do you think it should happen when posts get really' big?
- Do you think the problem can actually be solved?
- Would you do something else besides just supporting it?
malleable ontologies
You buy a hot dog at Joe's and you realize that the vending cart has a defined ontology available to see and operate over it.
Semantic web applications take advantage of such descriptions in order to make inferences and provide with more accurate and useful answers after you realize a query, for example. These representations look like simple graphs and have a standardized framework for being described RDF
You realize that the currently defined ontology is incomplete because it fails to point out that you are allowed to get a free dog when you get the stamps. You quickly modify it buy adding another bubble with the concept 'free dog' after 'stamp collection' after 'buy'. You make this action with your mobile device in site, while you wait in the queue.
- Do you find interesting to be able to modify the descriptions of the objects and resources that you interact with on a daily basis?
- Do you think people would engage in this quest?
- Do you imagine that problems may rise when people disagree and modify each other's descriptions?
- Do you think this should be like a Wiki or should be controlled by the owner of the artifact?
reversible posts
The idea of post is something you leave for others to access/read. But what if you --as poster-- could be notified when someone is actually reading your post and then you could engage in direct conversation with him? If the strategy of posting could be understood as a starter of face-toface engagements and debate?
Punctual Findings
cameraphone with metadata
- could be a way of recording spaces (a 360' turn for capturing the immediate surroundings)
- it makes sense as a way of personal diary as well
seeding the space
- filtering should be customizable
- I think this is fun
- can you post anonymously? I think this is dangerous
- what about surveillance?
- can I have private stuff as well?
inflating posts
- democracy? this device seems to be very expensive...
- I can see lots of ads everywhere
- how can we filter the crap we are not interested in?
- hey, but if we filter too much then we migh miss something really important!
malleable ontologies
- doesn't seem to be relevant
- I appears to me as an extra task to do, I don't want more work.
- The benefit is not evident.
- too nerdy
