From Martha Russell – Stanford’s Media X Summer Workshop
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If your products or services could be displaced by innovations transform users? experiences, you need to participate in Media X workshops this summer.
In three summer workshops, thought leaders of Media X explore coming innovations of user interfaces.
* SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS IN AMBIENT INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS
* SEMANTIC INTEGRATION
* REMOTE COLLABORATION IN MIXED MEDIA MIXED REALITY ENVIRONMENTS
To register for all three workshops (or register 3 people from your organization) for a significant discount, use code: GROUP2009.
Looking forward to seeing you this summer,
Martha
*SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS IN AMBIENT INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS
http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/environments.html
One-day workshop, July 20, with experts from Philips Lifestyle Research Division, Technical University of Eindhoven and Media X human-computer interface labs. The workshop will include presentations on the latest research on wireless camera networks, emotion-sensing sensors, connectedness and awareness, and transformed social interaction in ambient intelligent environments.
-Connectedness and Awareness
New communication systems are being designed to purposefully provide awareness of one’s friends, family or more generally one’s social network. Early results on creating awareness and a feeling of connectedness with people who are not physically present will be presented.
-Emotions sensing & interpretation in everyday life
Affective computing heralds the advent of empathic products: products that know how you feel and adapt to it. The components that measure and interpret emotions using psychological signals are critical to these products. Can the measurement of emotions be unobtrusive? Does the measurement reflect emotions for all individuals in the same way? Can environments and devices be made smarter by using these insights?
-Transformed Social Interaction
People are in a constant performance in front of the social audience around them ? choosing gestures, mannerisms and actions to give a desired impression to others. Research on the threshold of social influence and the use of communication technologies has produced insights on transforming social context, sensory abilities, perception of other people and perception of one self.
-Social Connectedness in Voice Interfaces
The design of voice interfaces can be informed by research insights on how people respond to automated voices in ATMs, phone messaging systems and other customer service information menus. Easy and intuitive user interfaces with human voice components relay on new insights from studying user emotions and personality determine the way people perceive automated and personalized voice systems.
-Mediated Social Touch
Touch is one of the most fundamental and intimate means of interaction between people. From the caring touch between parents and their newborn infant, to the immediacy and expressiveness of touch in interpersonal communication between adults, touch plays an important role in establishing social bonds, communicating emotions, and creating (sexual) arousal. People use touch when providing encouragements or emotional support, or when expressing intimacy or tenderness. By contrast, touch can also be a powerful means to gain compliance, or to persuade someone. Recent research integrating touch into communication technologies has studied the effects on users? social perceptions and emotions, including experiments on gender effects (i.e., same-sex versus different-sex touch) and persuasion (i.e., the Midas Touch).
*SEMANTIC INTEGRATION
http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/semantics.html
This one-day workshop will review technologies available for semantic integration and present important economic, social, and technical issues.
- Computer information is currently stored in isolated silos:
- Calendars and to do lists;
- Email, SMS and Twitter archives;
- Presence information (including physical, psychological and social);
- Maps (including firms, points of interest, traffic, parking, and weather);
- Events (including alerts and status);
- Documents (including presentations, spread sheets, proposals, job applications, health records, photos, videos, gift lists, memos, purchasing, contracts, articles);
- Contacts (including social graphs and reputation);
- Search results (including rankings and ratings); Data bases (including relational and geospatial); and
- Marketing and advertising relevance (influenced by all of the above)
Technology is now at hand to semantically integrate all of the above information for individuals, groups and organizations.
*REMOTE COLLABORATION IN MIXED MEDIA MIXED REALITY ENVIRONMENTS
http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/remote.html
This two-day workshop will explore and provide first-hand experiences with the frontiers of interactive work places and spaces that leverage mixed media and mixed realities in support of remote collaboration.
Workshop participants will visit Silicon Valley high-end telepresence suites and see technologies emerging from local start-ups and labs. Participants will engage in hands-on experiences with collaborative technologies and will hear from companies and researchers in the forefront of remote collaboration technologies and experiences.
Beyond high-definition video and large displays, a plethora of remote-presence and ubiquitous computing applications (increasingly valuable in creating a sense of being there and co-action) are ready to emerge into state-of-practice for business communications. This workshop will provide hands-on experience with integrated collaboration technologies that are starting to form an ecosystem that links collocated, remote, and mobile knowledge workers. The emerging ecosystem on which workshop experiences will focus include telepresence, telepresence robots and avatars, sensors and control, mobile devices, interactive rooms, physical and virtual team neighborhoods.
Optimizing the use of interactive, globally connected workplaces and the nuances of innovative technologies can improve collaboration, increase team productivity and well-being, and decrease the corporate CO2 footprint.
Martha Russell, PhD
Associate Director, Media X at Stanford University and Senior Research Scholar, HSTAR Institute
