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Implicit Shared Presence – a research effort
This is the initial post of a series of articles that describe a work in progress on implicit shared presence. It is a collaboration between Till Bovermann (Medialab, Department of Media, Media Aalto...
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We thought of several applications for the introduced shared presence scenario. In this post we want briefly describe two of them. For now, we decided to concentrate on upstairs and implement it as a...
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Shared Presence – first investigations
To initially investigate the idea detailed earlier and more specifically the Upstairs project, we did a couple of things. The first thing we tried was attaching a contact microphone to the floor of...
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Shared Presence – Upstairs
Think of your neighbours in the upper floor. Sometimes, you hear them walking around, rearranging chairs, or moving plates in their kitchen. Upstairs is based on the considerations made for implicit...
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upstairs – Technical background
For an audio-based connection between spaces, obviously sound has to be transferred from one place to another. This post describes the technical details. Hardware setup We picked up the vibrations with...
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On symbolic representations in the upstairs scenario
This is a post that reflects my ambiguous thoughts on direct and symbolic information representation. Conceptualizing upstairs and discussing its possible types of representation with both my...
View ArticleShared Presence – further considerations
Two people sit in the same room, yet doing different things on their own. Both are fully immersed in their particular task, however, when one decides to seek to communicate with the other, he or she...
View ArticleUpstairs – Software install log
install jack for os x download, build, and install lame download darkice configure darkice with ./configure --with-jack-prefix=/usr/local/lib --with-lame --with-lame-prefix=/usr/local/lib/ make and...
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Iconic representation contd. – towards turning theory into practice (1)
Yesterday, I started to look again into the upstairs work. The first thing I did was to recap what we did so far. Today, I settled on concentrate designing a box for symbolic representation as I...
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Upstairs – Supporting Peripheral Awareness between Non-Colocated Spaces
We presented the paper Upstairs – Supporting Peripheral Awareness between Non-Colocated Spaces at Pervasive 2012. The paper can be downloaded here. Media spaces have been trying to create spaces over...
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