[chisigmail] IDG seminar: Christine Satchell - Retrofitting Urban Residential Spaces with a Sense of Suburban Nostalgia

[Imalka Nilma Perera]

(apologies for cross posting)

You are cordially invited to the IDG Seminar ...


PRESENTER:  Christine Satchell

TITLE: Retrofitting Urban Residential Spaces with a Sense of Suburban
Nostalgia: The Community Building Potential of Urban Screens


VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA LAB, level 4, 111 Barry Street,
Carlton

DATE and TIME: Friday 05th September  2008, 3-4 pm
 

ABSTRACT:
Urbanely nomadic residents are increasingly forgoing the randomness of
locale-based relationships in favour of digitally mediated interactions
occurring within the walled garden of their pre-existing social networks.
This enhances a sense of community with members of established friendship
groups, but what of the interactions with those outside of these networks,
such as the inhabitants of residential spaces? The mass adoption of mobile
phones and Internet based social networking applications has not, as critics
feared, brought about 'the death of the city'. Yet within HCI, the focus on
meeting the needs of the digitally connected, but geographically dispersed
user has eclipsed the design of technologies for centralized users. In order
to address this gap we conducted a user study that informed a series of
design implications for the collective enhancement of residential
environments. A lens of suburban nostalgia was employed to see what types of
neighbourhood interactions might be retrofitted in new ways through the use
of technology to provide some social glue.

BIO:
Dr Christine Satchell is a Senior Research Fellow at Creative Industries,
Queensland University of Technology and an Honorary Research Fellow at the
Interaction Design Group at The University of Melbourne.

Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome.
http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.htm
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 Nilma Perera
 PhD Candidate 
 Interaction Design Group
 Department of Information Systems
 The University of Melbourne
 VIC 3010

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