aachen keynote 6 dec 2013
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Keynote at Tag der Informatik, Aachen, Germany, 6th December 2013. http://www.hcibook.com/alan/talks/Aachen-2013/ From buying plane tickets to eGovernment, participation in consumer and civic society is predicated on continuous connectivity and copious computation . And yet for many at the edges of society, the elderly, the poor, the disabled, and those in rural areas, poor access to digital technology makes them more marginalised, potentially cut off from modern citizenship. I spent three and half months last summer walking 1700 kilometres around the margins of Wales in order to experience more directly some of the issues facing those on the physical edges of a modern nation, who are often also at the social and economic margins. I will talk about some of the theoretical and practical issues raised; how designing software with constrained resources is more challenging but potentially more rewarding than assuming everyone lives with Silicon Valley levels of connectivity. I will also talk about some of the more personal challenges of a major expedition and the lessons from this for those starting out on their careers.TRANSCRIPT
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At the Edge
Alan DixTalis & University of Birmingham
http://alandix.com/alanwalkswales/
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about meand what I do
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University ofBirmingham
Tiree
Tiree Tech Wave20-24 Mar’14
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About Tiree
poor mobilephonecoverage
750 residents20,000 summer visitors
traditional agriculturecommon grazing
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today I am not talking about …• intelligent internet interfaces• visualisation and sampling• situated displays, eCampus,
small device – large display interactions• fun and games, virtual crackers,
artistic performance, slow time• creativity and Bad Ideas• modelling dreams and regret• Tiree: mobile heritage
& youth communication
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let’s start with ...
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graduating ... my first job
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low tech / high tech?
right tech
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Christmas lights
http:/www.hcibook.com/alan/projects/firefly/
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I am really talking about ...
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a walk
1058 miles (1700 km) around around the margins of Wales
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Welsh Coast Path
opened May 2012linking existing pathsa single way marked routewith Offa’s Dyke encircles Walesthree full traversals in 2012 (one running)
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walking for war
Napoleon in Russia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia
The Long March
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_March
Roman Legions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_legion
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walking as political activism
Salt March (India) Jarrow March (UK)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_March http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257003/Last-Jarrow-Marchers-walked-300-miles-London-poverty-protest-dies-aged-96.html
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walking as pilgrimage
Caminohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_St._James
Char Dhamhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage
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walking in the humanities
poetry & Romanticism(19th century)
psychogeographyall method?
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/b/british-watercolours-developing-landscape-subjects/ http://en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/Psychogeography
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walking Wales
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vision
personalencircling, encompassing, pilgrimage, homecoming,
practicalIT for the walker & IT for local communities
philosophicalreflections on walking and space, locality and identity
researchpersonal agenda and living lab
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no hard boundaries
research – practicepersonal – philosophical
19th century science or Mediaeval?
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walking as research
slow! ... and hurts :-/
imposed time frame ... for good & ill
waving banners
using technologyQ. “what technology do you use?”A. “a map”
keeping moving, in the wet, ..
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the best technology!
voice recorder
real buttons!!
use it while moving
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data
locationGPX ... batteries ... sporadic signals ....
bio-sensingECG (heart), EDA (skin) and accelerometers
audio and imagesin the moment
textafter the event
implicit
explicit
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at the margins
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at the margins
social marginality:poor, old, rural
information marginality:poor connectivity, old
devices
IT deepens the divide... but can IT help in the
margins?
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IT in the margins
lessons from each otherHarris Tweedhole in the wallsimple SMS
an old dream ... the electronic village shop
what now?
www.hole-in-the-wall.com
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community and identity
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community and cohesion
abandonment and dissolution:Rhyl – dustbin of LiverpoolDee estuary – even the pubs closed
internal strengthPenmaenmawr – in the face of adversitycommunity enterprise: shops, pubs, arts
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language and culture
intimately linkedeven for the non-Welsh speaker!
changed in my lifetimebut under threat again
technological implicationsnot just translations ... media choice etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn
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mapsreclaiming the local map within technological space
mapping never easier ... so long as it is ‘standard’
“Post-Renaissance maps cover the surface of the world with an homogeneous Cartesian grip”
Barbara Bender
local maps – local concerns
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connectivity
I expected it to be bad ...
but it was worse
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... not a recent issue ...
1994 maybe first
HCI & mobile
journal paper
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always connected?
mobile signalabsent or weak
broadband ...not so broad
masts point to seanot land ...yachts = money
https://explore.ee.co.uk/coverage-checker
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infrastructure or privilege?
what is the greatestBritish invention?
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infrastructure or privilege?
19th century – Penny Postthe amazing inventionrevolutionised communication
Today – Internet50% of Welsh schools say
poor connectivity hampers education
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/pennypos.html
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software makes it worse ...
Twitter 140 chars ... but unusable with poor signalheavy XML API
email slow but works – 1970s technology
Flickr uploader freezes on poor connections... even in Paris!
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‘localisation’
not just language and culture
software embodies context:technological and economic assumptions
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health and well being
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walking and health
logistics and transport:constant stress!! ... and I was just visiting
from mountain goat to geriatric and back
health and wealth
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1058 miles done what next ...
more:w: alandix.com/alanwalkswalest: @alanwalkswalesf: facebook.com/alanwalkswales
the kind of
person ?
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thanks to ...
... and to everyone who helped, walked and supported one of the charities:
http://alandix.com/alanwalkswales/participate/giving/
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