Kalender

Introductory lecture.

Walk through in the "Presence Lab" with prototypes and examples of presence situations.

The Presence Lab is located in the Reactor Hall at Drottning Kristinas väg 51.

Presentation of the course theme this year: "Presence in extreme environments"

13-14
Lecture on "Presence Factors"
Aase Knudsen, University College of Lillehammer

14-16
Establishment of project groups.
First lab task.

16-17
Inspirational lecture
Christer Fuglesang, affiliated professor and head of KTH Space Center.

Lecture about presence related visualisation.

In the Visualisation Studio, Lindstedtsvägen 5, 4th floor.

9-12 Groups 1-3 in the Presence Lab "WebRTC"

10-12 Groups 4-5 in the Visualisation Studio

9-12 Groups 1-5 (=all) in the Presence Lab "Connecting things"

13-15 Groups 1-3 in the Visualisation Studion 

13-16 Groups 4-5 in the Presence Lab "WebRTC"

Camera and lights lab
Media Production Studio in KTH Library
Host: Joakim Nordengel

8:30-10 Groups 4-5

10:15-11:45 Groups 1-3

"Firstlab" work day in the Presence Lab.

Firstlab instructions:

The FirstLab is an initial exercise where you will get acquainted with presence thinking, focusing on how users can relate to each other in a distributed setting, an informal social space that you will create together as a group and in which participants interact with each other via an architectural interface and where a communicating element will be used to prompt a reaction from far away. After getting acquainted with different tools, such as the Arduino and some examples of its use in “presence devices” such as the Little Polyhedron, each group will design a mediated space where participants can experience ambient presence. Besides screens, speakers and image manipulation, we are going to be looking at other forms of communicating closer to the related concepts of Ambient Intelligence , Ubiquitous Computing and the Internet of Things. These often emphasise forms of communication in which information is embedded in the physical reality of environments, and it is presented in non-intrusive ways. In Mark Weiser’s words “The best user interface is the self-efacing one, the one that you don’t even notice”. While we will not necessarily follow this advice, the objective of this first lab is to think about other possible ways of communicating, of being remotely present somewhere else and complementarily making the remote to be present here and now.  We will consider in this context different amounts of information and bandwidth, from those involved real-time video communication to those of a twit, a stock market quote or a temperature sensor reading. We will thus develop different forms of engaging and interacting with this information, from actively responding to it as in an online video conversation, to perceiving it only peripherally at a lower level of awareness and engagement, as one may in the physical world be a aware of the neighbour’s presence by the light in their window. We will use for this different types of media and concepts that we have been becoming familiar with during the first lab sessions, such s webrtc or the Arduino.

Continued work with "Firstlab".

9-10 Work time
(Final preparations)

10-12 Crit
Everybody needs to be present!

9:15-10
Start for next phase with larger project.
The theme and expectations are presented more in detail.

The rest of the day is project work day.

Presentation of concepts plans.

Each group presents (individually) their initial concept plan.

Book a time slot with Leif when you feel ready!

The Reactor Hall is booked this day for SMC (Sound and Music Computing) Sweden 2014.

If you are interested, look at http://smcsweden.se/

Project work

9-12 mid crit

Presentations and discussions, with guests.

All need to be present.

13-17 Project work

Briefing of project status before holidays.

All need to be present.

Presentations and discussions, with guests.

Instructions for home assignment.

Course ending.