Archive for December, 2006
The Shared Design Space
by admin on December 18th, 2006
A novel interface for enhancing face-to-face collaboration using multiple displays and input surfaces. The system supports natural gestures and paper-pen input and overcomes the limitations of using traditional technology in co-located meetings and brainstorming activities.
The primary goal is to use new technology to seamlessly support
enhanced face-to-face collaboration and develop a new (non 2D-based)
interface for designers, storyboard experts, and creative people. To
achieve this, the project focuses on several subgoals:
- Uunderstanding how technology can affect co-located collaboration
- Developing technology for capturing and responding to gesture input
- Developing a software architecture for seamlessly moving digital content between computers and display surfaces
- Developing several interaction metaphors for end-users
This interface allows users to easily explore design options in a
creative context through an intuitive interface of real and virtual
artist and designer tools. Using computers in a face-to-face meeting
can disrupt the creative process because communication cues can not be
shared as easily as in natural face-to-face conversation. The Shared
Design Space allows people to communicate as they normally would around
a table and enhances this communication with intuitive collaborative
tools. This work points to a future where computers will be able to
naturally support face-to-face meetings and creative design sessions.
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The Mobile Studios - a European project by Public Art Lab
by admin on December 6th, 2006
From April until the end of May 2006, the Mobile Studios will travel as
a nomadic multimedia platform from Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade to
Sofia, and will temporarily possess the urban spaces in these cities.
The Mobile Studios
are an internationally networked pilot project of a mobile, autonomous
production laboratory for young artists, musicians, performers and
cultural programmers. In a subsequent program, artists and cultural
producers will be invited to recreate the studio as directors. Mobile
Studios are consisting of three corresponding units: the Editorial-, the Talk- and the Live Studio.
The installations and urban interventions that take place in the Live Studio, as well as the conversations and discussions of the Talk Studios, will be transformed and broadcast in the Editorial Studio in various formats. The production and broadcast processes will be made visible at the same time.
With its 12 square meters, the Editorial Studio is the largest exhibition module: Here, daily reports from the Talk and Live Studios
will be editorially processed, archived and published in various
multimedia formats. Via an XML interface, comprehensive content will be
transmitted to editors and cooperative partners for further use in
online editorial, web, TV and radio, press, magazines, etc. In this
context, we are most interested in medial reach that can be achieved
with this exhibition format.
The Editorial Studio is
equipped with a four-meter long work surface and four workstations with
live Internet connections, scanners and streaming servers. As in the
remaining Mobile Studios, the work process in Editorial will be visible from the outside through a large glass window.
link: http://www.mobile-studios.org/