treading technology feb 2013
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Slides from talks about the research aspects of my walk around Wales given at Birmingham, Brunel, Southampton, Nottingham and Aberdeen in February 2103. For more see: http://alandix.com/alanwalkswales/TRANSCRIPT
Treading out Technology theory meets praxis during a
thousand mile walk round Wales
Alan Dix
Talis & University of Birmingham
http://alandix.com/alanwalkswales/
University ofBirmingham
Tiree
TalisTiree Tech Wave14-18 March ’13 (full!)
next Oct’13
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• physicality and product design• creativity and Bad Ideas• modelling dreams and regret
… or even lots of lights
http:/www.hcibook.com/alan/projects/firefly/
… let alone
http://hcicourse.com/
what I will talk about ...
... Alan Walks Wales ...
context
vision
inspirations
baseline
challenges
invitation
contextWales coast path
Welsh Coast Path
opened May 2012linking existing pathsa single way marked routewith Offa’s Dyke encircles Walestwo full traversals in 2012 (one running)
vision – the walkAlan Walks Waleswhy and what for
Alan Walks Wales
18th April – 28th July 2012
complete periplus
with IT focus
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
inspirationsTireethe amazing cycling programmera childhood globe
About Tiree
poor mobilephonecoverage
750 residents20,000 summer visitors
Tiree
at the edges ...750 people, 20 square miles, 4 hour ferry
Tiree Tech Wavefor the attendee and for the community
making a differenceTiree Mobile Heritage App.Tiree Connect
the amazing cycling programmer
at TTW 3 after10 months on the road
sorry no piccies
and my childhood globe
baselinepaths and patchesmarginality and the electronic village shopmobile connectivity and data synchronisation
paths and patches
links between:
• spatial cognitionand concept formation
• stories and journeys
• boundaries and thresholds
• trans-articulation
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?
IT in the margins
lessons from the developing worldhole in the wall,simple SMS
an old dream ... the electronic village shop
what now?
www.hole-in-the-wall.com
connectivity & synchronisation
challengestechnicalinteractionalsocial
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
linear maps too
linear maps too
maps – issues
coordinate transforms – rubber sheeting
transitions – morph or discontinuous
linking trails and localities
authoring and data
always connected?
mobile signalabsent or weak
broadband ...not so broad
=> offline accessand synchronisation
https://explore.ee.co.uk/coverage-checker
data synchronisation
well studied in early 1990sfor disconnected operation and synchronous editing
... but still poorly implemented e.g. Apple iOS
almost always items are:homogeneousindependent
syncing heterogeneous data
problem of lossinessone solution – create the über format :-/
exploit neo-Galois connectionsf o g o f = f g o f o g = g
f
g
data integraton
mashups, APIs, RDF,linked data, schema.org
ingest ...or
relate?... heterogeneity
https://developers.google.com/maps/visualize
ruler length (log miles)
coast length (log miles)
P.S. is Welsh coast fractal ...
oops!
P.S. is Welsh coast fractal ...
invitationcommunity connectionswalk with meliving lab