WEDNESDAY 2ND APRIL 2003
14.30 | RESPOND KEYNOTE
SESSION NOTES
Babbage Lecture Theatre, Cambridge
WELCOME: Francois Penz
INTRODUCTION: Ghislaine Boddington
SPEAKERS: Paul
Sermon / Christa
Sommerer / Marcos
Novak
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PAUL
SERMON
Focus: TELEMATICS
CONCEPTS
and CHARACTERISTICS
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Existing outside own space
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Means of extending consciousness
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Means of extending body beyond screen
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Extending sensory inputs of sight and touch – sight exchanged
for touch, using eyes to touch
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Telepresence state of mind -experience cognitive process in slow
motion
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Body is affected and transformed by telematic processes
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Temporal displacements
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Double consciousness – state of being accessed
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Quality and nature of the communication through no contact in
physical realm.
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The creation of a third location
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Narcissism
USER
EXPERIENCE
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You are having an out of body experience’
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Users reluctant to enter telematics environment – embarrassment
– concern with their distant body not near physical one
– issue of proximity relations
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User behaviour - lots of fun and laughter – funny? enjoyable?
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People love idea of communication at a distance
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Etiquette rules in telematic communications
FORMS
IN USE
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Installation which exists in a digital network
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Different telepresence interfaces: use of everyday objects/familiar
environments: personal spaces, domestic situations, public spaces
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‘There’s no simulation like home’
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Telematics as a debating forum
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Making the technology invisible
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Issue of screen based interfaces
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Notion of real and virtual – all realities as a construct
of language
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Sound/image interaction experimentation
TECHNOLOGIES
IN USE
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Network matrix
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Video conference technology
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Chromakeying
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Mixed image projection
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Head mounted displays
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Paul
Sermon
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