How to Build your first

SpimeManageme

ntSystem

Dan Willis, SapientIxDA Interaction ’09

A spime is an object that exists in space and time

aspimeis the

answer to

“WHAT’S NEXT?”

artifacts

Pre-history 1500s 1914 1989 2030

machines

Pre-history 1500s 1914 1989 2030

products

Pre-history 1500s 1914 1989 2030

gizmos

Pre-history 1500s 1914 1989 2030

spimes

OpenSpime prototype CO2 sensor

Pre-history 1500s 1914 1989 2030

“Hey, a museum exhibit could be a spime.”

Wayfinding

Wayfinding location

Tour building

Content updates

Exhibit history

Product development

RFID

Complex data interaction

Liquid content

From The Spime Arrives by Bruce Sterling and students from the Cranbrook Academy of Art.

• Data rich

• Innovation-tolerant

• Location-centric

• Broken, or almost broken

A spime friendly environment will be:

“What the HELLare you talking

about?”

“Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future?

Because there is nowhere else to look. ”

James Burke, Connections

• An innovation occurs as the result of deliberate attempts to develop it.

• The attempt to find one thing leads to the discovery of another.

• Unrelated developments have a decisive effect on the main event.

How things changeFrom Connections by James Burke

Questions?

http://www.dswillis.com/ixda/spimes.pdf