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Thursday 2nd April - Saturday 5th April 2003

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

PAUL SERMON
Focus: TELEMATICS

CONCEPTS and CHARACTERISTICS

  • Existing outside own space
  • Means of extending consciousness
  • Means of extending body beyond screen
  • Extending sensory inputs of sight and touch – sight exchanged for touch, using eyes to touch
  • Telepresence state of mind -experience cognitive process in slow motion
  • Body is affected and transformed by telematic processes
  • Temporal displacements
  • Double consciousness – state of being accessed
  • Quality and nature of the communication through no contact in physical realm.
  • The creation of a third location
  • Narcissism

USER EXPERIENCE

  • You are having an out of body experience’
  • Users reluctant to enter telematics environment – embarrassment – concern with their distant body not near physical one – issue of proximity relations
  • User behaviour - lots of fun and laughter – funny? enjoyable?
  • People love idea of communication at a distance
  • Etiquette rules in telematic communications

FORMS IN USE

  • Installation which exists in a digital network
  • Different telepresence interfaces: use of everyday objects/familiar environments: personal spaces, domestic situations, public spaces
  • ‘There’s no simulation like home’
  • Telematics as a debating forum
  • Making the technology invisible
  • Issue of screen based interfaces
  • Notion of real and virtual – all realities as a construct of language
  • Sound/image interaction experimentation

TECHNOLOGIES IN USE

  • Network matrix
  • Video conference technology
  • Chromakeying
  • Mixed image projection
  • Head mounted displays

 

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