i mentioned these merry pranksters in the smms meeting yesterday. you might also like these guys, these folks and this initiative
we settled on the following phrases as useful descriptors of ame related products and activities for use as metadata for entities uploaded to our media repository.
natural interfaces
hybrid physical-digital environments
mediated experiential learning
adaptive media
socially embedded technology
multimodal interactions
if you have any additional thoughts either for or against their inclusion, please add your comments below. we will be adding [...]
hi all, i wanted to start a discussion about generating a list of 6 – 8 key concepts that define the products, research and activities of ame. we will be using these words as an initial set of concept phrases to be used as annotation in the media repository. i’d love to hear your thoughts [...]
Here’s a link to LibraryThing, the personal book collection website I mentioned in our meeting last night:
http://www.librarything.com/
Enjoy…my username is beerland, if you care to see what I’ve got posted in there.  I think there are several attributes of the database (and functions of the interface) that we might want to heavily consider including in our [...]
minutes of the situated communication meeting
a short quicktime movie by the situated communication group about peripheral awareness, community and memory.
click here to launch!
5 proposed starting concepts for the smms table design:
birchfield
AMP Ensemble
Digital Arts Ranch (DAR)
music
ciufo
The meeting provided an overview of the sensing activities and sensing methods being applied in the following concentrations, education, Biofeedback and Rehabilitation and Interactive arts.
The current work in the education project is sensing using microphone arrays. Initially the microphone array is being designed to estimate location of the speaker. Higher level features hope to extracted [...]
Participants in the meeting: hari, aisling, anuj, adithya, shreeharsh
There are two deadlines, the first for the e-chronicle conference on dec 16 and the second for the visit on Jan 15.
for dec 16:
for dec 16 we will stick to the current visualization. the actions implemented will be “catch”, “drop” and “tag”.
by monday 12/4 the database [...]
Things that I accomplished this week:
1) My task was to bring together the flickr photos from the AME flickr pool into the current visualization. Instead of using the flickr RSS feed, I’m now using the flickr api directly — this enables me to get a lot of information directly from flickr. So far [...]
update on progress:
the interactive table can access our flickr feed and display recently added ame group photos.
the table and wall display panel can communicate basic wake/sleep behavior.
the panel can playback a slideshow of all the images touched on the table in the last most recent interaction.
the web app is ready to retrieve and display sequences [...]
AME has a new flickr “pool� where we can pool together pictures that are related to AME. The pictures will be used as data for the situated communications project.
The pool is here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/ameatasu/pool/
Please please go over your hard-drives; find out some interesting photos and add them to the pool (the more [...]