apchi 2013-the-walk
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The Walkexploring the technical and social margins APCHI 2013 / India HCI 2013 Keynote, 27th September 2013TRANSCRIPT
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The Walkexploring the technical
and social margins
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
TalisTiree Tech Wave24-28 Oct’13
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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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… or even lots of lights
http:/www.hcibook.com/alan/projects/firefly/
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… let alone
http://hcicourse.com/
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except ...
version soon to be launched on interaction-design.org
use it in your own teaching
do you want to share too?
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I am 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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an interstitial community
caravan site (nearly) in centre of townbut behind, in the gapssemi-permanent residents
locality? parallel communities in same place
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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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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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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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not just jerky movies ...
Software Update 2.3Gbsecurity patch
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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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making a difference?
public policy – improving infrastructure
design – connectivity-aware softwaree.g. mobile apps
distributed system not thin client
OS – APIs to reveal connectivity
local webs
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research looking out
living lab
others outcomes
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others
data curationplease use it :-(
exhibition at Lampeter
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take aways and you ...
HCIcourse materials – talk/email me!
methodological boundaries of academia ... ?
design for low connectivity
dimensions of connectivity?
sharing research data
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1058 miles done what next ...
more:w: alandix.com/alanwalkswalest: @alanwalkswalesf: facebook.com/alanwalkswales
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