inventing the medium ninch building blocks workshop october 2000 janet murray information design and...
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Inventing the MediumNINCH Building Blocks Workshop
October 2000
Janet Murray
Information Design and Technology Program
Georgia Tech
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Information Design and Technology at Georgia Tech
Professor Janet H. MurrayDirector of Graduate StudiesInformation Design and Technology ProgramGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta Georgia
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/idt
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/[email protected]
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Pattern
Whenever I design a chip the first thing I want to do is look at it under a microscope -- not because I think I can learn something new by looking at it but because I am always fascinated by how a pattern can create reality.
Danny Hillis The Pattern in the Stone
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New Media
QuickTime™ and aVideo decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
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Soliloquy as Technology of Representation
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Properties of the Medium
• Procedural• Participatory• Encyclopedic• Spatial
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Legacy Design Paradigms
• Graphic Design: Poster• Human Computer Interaction: Appliance• Television Producers: “Enhanced” TV• Instructional Design: Distant Classroom• Communication: Broadband Telephone
• Library Science: Card Catalog
• Literary/Cultural Studies: Potato Root System
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A Medium of Representation
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Script the interactor
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Design Issues
• Is it a “show”?• Is there a “movie
underneath”?• Segmentation and
juxtaposition• Standardized labels• Encyclopedic
expectation
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Cross-Media Structures
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Granularity, Juxtaposition
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Textbook to Archive
Virtual Screening Room
Henry Jenkins, MIT
CD-ROM/DVD Project
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A New Medium
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Medium of Representation
allows us to:
– Inscribe perceptible signs
– Create patterns of meaning
– Preserve and transmit patterns
– Expand our understanding and our humanity
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New Media
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New Media
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New Media
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New Media
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Moments of Invention
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Patterns of Meaning
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New Forms…New Knowledge
• Digital Archive
• Simulation
• Kaleidoscopic structure
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QuickTime™ and aCinepak decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
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QuickTime™ and aCinepak decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
John Belcher, TEAL, MIT, NSF
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Reinventing Biography
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How to invent the medium
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Pick something complicated
• Think of a particular task you are obsessed by
• Do you know more about it than you can contain in books, classes, diagrams?
• Do you want to know something / explain something just beyond the reach of available means?
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• What are the core tasks?
• What other tasks are like this one?
• What would this task be like if it were doable in the most perfect way?
Think abstractly, build concretely
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Look for Harbinger Materials
Based on
The Norman Conquests,Trilogy byAlan Ayckbourn
Built with
IBM
“HotVideo”
Hot Norman:A prototype for
Digital TV
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Exploit the Medium
• Procedural: Patterns of Rule-Based Behavior• Participatory: Patterns of Participation• Encyclopedic: Patterns of Segmentation,
Categorization, and Agglomeration• Spatial: Patterns of Navigation and Boundary
Definition
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Create Authoring Tools
CharacterMaker 4J. Murray, M. Privat
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British Museum Stance
• Everything will be brought to you
• Everything has been indexed
• Every medium available
• Every artifact available
• Every part of every artifact at every level of granularity
• Every marginalized group/idea represented or addable
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Design for the Future Environment
• Standardized metadata
• Distributed annotation
• Open ended archive
• Growing ability to manipulate with kaleidoscopic power
• Growing ability to replay, readjust parameters
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Avoid Pitfalls
• Fetishism of legacy formats
• Constraints of legacy processes
• Confusing expert authority with legacy formats and processes
• “Hypertext”
• “Intuition”
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Look for the patterns
Whenever I design a chip the first thing I want to do is look at it under a microscope -- not because I think I can learn something new by looking at it but because I am always fascinated by how a pattern can create reality.
Danny Hillis The Pattern in the Stone
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Remember what is sacred
• Not the book: it’s a legacy format
• Not the process: it can be improved
• The expansion of human knowledge and human understanding
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Information Design and Technology at Georgia Tech
Professor Janet H. MurrayDirector of Graduate StudiesInformation Design and Technology ProgramGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta Georgia
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/idt
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/[email protected]
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Information Design and Technology at Georgia Tech
Professor Janet H. MurrayDirector of Graduate StudiesInformation Design and Technology ProgramGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta Georgia
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/idt
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/[email protected]
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Information Design and Technology at Georgia Tech
Professor Janet H. MurrayDirector of Graduate StudiesInformation Design and Technology ProgramGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta Georgia
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/idt
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/[email protected]
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Information Design and Technology at Georgia Tech
Professor Janet H. MurrayDirector of Graduate StudiesInformation Design and Technology ProgramGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta Georgia
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/idt
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/[email protected]
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Information Design and Technology at Georgia Tech
Professor Janet H. MurrayDirector of Graduate StudiesInformation Design and Technology ProgramGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta Georgia
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/idt
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/[email protected]