July 2011
49 posts
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Bike Bridge →
Zoom in and then keep on zooming …
What kind of collaborative task would be...
A few ideas for brainstorming cooperative tasks that require minimal effort on the part of the individual, but result in a significant (or at least conceptually significant) cumulative effect over time. So task / interaction boundaries might include …
Something that would be difficult for a computer to do … so something that humans are particularly good of doing … (image...
Crowdsourcing, Collaboration
Real-time Cooperative Games
Working together to get something done … with or without knowing who you are working with.
http://wordsquared.com/
http://swarmation.com/
http://hotornot.com/ (a terrible website, but it demonstrates a simple collaborative interactive framework based on visceral responses, requiring very little “action” on the part of the voter)
Crowdsourcing
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WatchA very simple real-time bridge traffic visualization based on the data here.
Peds and bikes above, cars and buses below. Each cyan dot is a person. Dots on thin yellow lines are bikers. Busses are red. Cars are yellow.
Limitations:
Everything goes in one direction. Half should go in the opposite direction (I’m assuming …).
Does not account for time of day. Simple takes the...
June 2011
62 posts
"Interactivity" and the "Audience"
As an interaction designer, I am thinking a lot about the kinds of interactions that this space will afford. No matter how much we try, the majority of the time, the majority of the people that inhabit this space will experience it as a thoroughfare. I don’t have the hard facts on this, but I do have a lot of experience walking and riding back and forth for the last 8 years. Based on...
Data Sources and Tech
Categories of Data
This is just a copy of my raw sensor/data brainstorming list. None are prescriptive and most would need a very strong conceptual basis before I’d be interested in implementing them in a space like this.
Mark Shepard is doing particularly interesting work/critique on this topic with interventions like his “Sentient City Survival Kit” e.g....
Tuning Surfaces
Idea
Perhaps a way for bikers (or peds if we gave them some sort of stick to drag along the bridge the railings as they walked).
While technically challenging, perhaps these surfaces could be “tuned” using the data collected at the site. This would likely be much easier for the fences, and more difficult to do in-ground for the bikes.
Sources
Tuned Fences
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WatchBob checking out the structures with SEH structural engineer Gaylen Peruhn.
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