[chisigmail] IDG Seminar: Transmesh: Creating Mobile Technological Urban Spaces

[Daryl Ku]

(Apologies for cross posting)

You are cordially invited to an Interaction Design Group seminar.


PRESENTER:
Margaret Hamilton, School of Computer Science and Information
Technology, RMIT University

TITLE:
Transmesh: Creating Mobile Technological Urban Spaces

VENUE:
University of Melbourne, IDEA Lab, Level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton

DATE and TIME:
Friday 18 June 2010, 3.00 - 4.00 pm

ABSTRACT:
While architects design physical spaces which people inhabit, we are
interested in designing a mobile technological urban space where people,
space, information, technology and services can freely interact. In such
a space, the boundaries between public and private are fuzzy and mobile
and only temporarily defined. In this talk, we explain how and why we
created such a space, with a small, portable, solar-powered Bluetooth
server. Since user acceptance of technologies is important to the
success of such installations, we conducted a survey ascertaining
perceptions about Bluetooth as a means of sharing media. Our work
demonstrates the technosocial possibilities which result from
establishing localized mediated spaces or meshworks, using Bluetooth
which will be discussed in this talk. However, Bluetooth technology is a
double-edged sword. It is a meshwork for sharing media freely between
mobile device users in public places such as shopping centres and
private spaces such as the home and workplace. It presents opportunities
for the design of innovative creative projects, however technical
issues, user acceptance and competition for the user's attention provide
continuing challenges.

BIO:
Dr Margaret Hamilton is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer
Science and Information Technology at RMIT University. She is primarily
interested in research in mobile human and technological interaction,
engagement and computer science education. Her mobile computing group
Transmesh has undertaken studies with Tablet PCs, PDAs, mobile phones
and the 'solar-blue' bluetooth server.
 
Please forward to others if interested. All are Welcome.
http://disweb.dis.unimelb.edu.au/Research/InteractionDesign/seminars.htm
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Mitchell Harrop 
Interaction Design Group Seminar Coordinator

Interaction Design Group
Department of Information Systems
The University of Melbourne

(Sent by Daryl Ku on behalf of Mitchell Harrop)