Technical, Tangible, Social
Liz Lawley
Liz is warning us that she is going to insight technolust
Today is Liz’s 6 year blogversary!!
How can libraries embrace the tangible again?
We care what things feel like and look like
Apple understands the importance of the physical and tangible
Social proprioception – mobile devices are making this easier
Ability to say where we are
People want to know where we are
Virtual isn’t enough people want to be physically present
Overwhelmed by the direct messages
Let it go into the bsckground periphery
Proprioception – General sense of ourselves in the world
Ambient devices
Chumby
Http://delicious.com/mamamusings/il08
Untether you from computer, and is a social object
Mir:ror – RFID for your personal items
Send messages and keep track of people and stuff
Object centered sociality
Botanicalls – alert you to plant status
Arduino – open source
Magazines – Make and Craft, published by OReilly
Sense of connection to real things very important
People want hand crafted goods
Handcrafted gifts very popular. People want to make stuff
Social hardware – Karen Schneider
Airpower – wiki for power outlets in airports
Bring the people in give them space to network
Libraries need to bring people together in a physical geolocal way
The term Social Hardware is not new to me, and it is quite visible on the web, via Google, but my attempt to put up a Social Hardware page on the Wikipedia is likely to fail because they consider it a neologism. It would help if someone could either provide references or argure for it on the Wikipedia talk page.
Please help!
dpw