RECORD

Student project: Telenor Kino

In the autumn of 2009, students at AHO conducted a 6 week task exploring new social experiences for web-based movie renting. See more student projects for RECORD here.

Telenor Kino by Christer Carlsson
Telenor Kino is a standalone desktop or web-based application, imagined as a supplement or extension of the current Online.no streaming movie rental. By using a rich media platform (such as Silverlight or Flash), Kino can provide a presentation and user experience beyond what’s possible under the usual restrictions of the typical internet browser.

The project has two central themes, the first being ways to create a more coherent movie rental experience, from order placement through closing credits. With the influx of HD flatscreen TVs, more and more users opt to connect their computers to the bigger screen. Kino has two switchable operation modes, one for pc and another for when connected to a TV.

The second theme is content filtering, through both «manual» searching and browsing as well as intelligent, automatic recommendations based on the user’s own movie preferences and those of users with similar tastes. Each user also has his own public «cinema», which acts as a temporary playlist for movies and a place to save movie titles for later viewing.

RECORD-led student projects at AHO

For the second year we have facilitated a MA interaction design course at AHO. This year the title of the course was Design for Interactive and Social Media, and was held in collaboration with Mosse Sjaastad and Anthony Rowe at AHO.
The course took the students through several different task including prototyping methods for screen-based design, information architecture, interactive design for museums, situated software and ended
with a RECORD-led a six weeks module with task based around our case partners Telenor and VIF.
Throughout the module we facilitated two touchpoints with our living lab. Through an online environment the students communicated with potential users, by posting idea-cards and videos of their concepts.

The course provides a platform for us to gain experiences of performing experience-based interactive design for social media, and to test theories, tools and methods in a wider context.

You can see more at the course website or on the students’ blogs: Natasha, Ane, Synne, Fanny, Svein Inge, Ivan, Theo, Martin.

Personvern i sosiale medier

Data fra RECORD-prosjektet har gått inn i en helt fersk rapport om personvern i sosiale medier.  Nyttig både for utviklere og brukere av sosiale medietjenester. Rapporten er skrevet av Petter Bae Brandtzæg og Marika Lüders, på oppdrag fra Forbrukerrådet. Den kan lastes ned her.

Les også Aftenposten-oppslaget om rapporten. Du kan kanskje også være interessert i å følge den relaterte diskusjonen om personvern på Origo.

Student Workshop with Russell Davies

Here at AHO we are running a masters course: Design for Interactive and Social Media. Last week we had a 1.5 half day workshop with Russell Davies. Russell has a brilliant writeup of the workshop, but I wanted to mention some of the outcome here as well.

The students were given a task to design small pocket-sized real-world representations of some sort of virtual data.

In a really short time the students came of with some brilliant ideas. This shows how a compressed and condensed conceptual phase can yield good results. Obviously these ideas needs better presentation and communication, however they all have a strong ground idea.

Soft Medals – Theo Tveterås

In a closed context of a football cup the soft medals represent victorious matches. You strap the medals to your shoelaces. Through an online interface you can enter the code from your medal to retrieve videos and statistics from the match.

ReadMe – Natasha Ruivo and Synne Frydenberg

ReadMe generates physical jewelry based on the content in your sent SMS’. So if you use a lot cheerful and happy words you will get a piece of jewelry with colours and shapes representing this mood.

Mechanical Facebook – Martin Spencer

Mechanical Facebook is a novelty paper badge enabling you to physically to change your Facebook status and photo. As Russell says: “It was a very silly and perfectly appropriate physicalisation of the character of a social network.” I think this could work very well in a closed context such as a conference where you could get your latest Facebook statuses handed out to when you arrive.

Wooden bricks of time – Svein Inge Bjørkhaug

These wooden bricks represent your usage of different applications on your computer. A veritable punch in the face for us internet procrastinators.

Fagseminar: Sosiale medier i nye sammenhenger

God stemning og dyktige foredragsholdere under RECORD fagseminar om sosiale medier i dag.  Drøyt 100 deltagere – på AHO fra tidlig morgen til lunch.

Keynote var Russel Davies, som tok for seg hva som skjer når innhold på internett materialiseres i den fysiske verden.  Eirik Solheim, Yngvar Kjus og Jørn Knutsen snakket om sosiale medier i underholdningsøyemed. Bente Kalsnes, Sunneva Kilsti og Stine Sem, og Petter Bae Brandtzæg snakket om nytteaspekter ved sosiale medier.

Presentasjonene legges ut på programsiden fortløpende. Eirik Solheim har lagt ut bilder.

How can dynamic interfaces enhance social media?

A few days ago I presented my paper Social Navimation: engaging interfaces in social media, at the NORDES design research conference Engaging Artifacts in Oslo. In the presentation I analysed a set of design experiments that show how specific features of navimation can be used in social media applications. I got a lot of positive feedback after the presentation, which was made using the online presentation tool Prezi. Read more about social navimation and see the presentation at Navimation Research.

Åpent RECORD fagseminar: Sosiale medier i nye sammenhenger

Gå ikke glipp av årets mest innholdsrike seminar om sosiale medier. Seminaret er i regi av RECORD. og har som tema “Sosiale medier i nye sammenhenger”. Engasjerende og dyktige foredragsholdere vil fortelle deg om hvordan sosiale medier endres og blir en stadig viktigere del av livene våre.

Tid: 2. oktober, 08:15-12:00 – med frokost
Sted: AHO, Maridalsveien 29, Oslo

Se program og påmelding.

Why people use social networking sites?

Petter Bae Brandtzæg of the RECORD project made a presentation on peoples’ motivations for online social networking, at HCI International in San Diego. Sounds interesting? Please find his slides below.

Workshop: Designing dynamic interfaces for mobile devices

Are you compelled by the rapid development of mobile devices and their graphically sophisticated screens?

Have you noticed the increasing employment of visual motion in screen-based interfaces?

Are you interested in the possibilities and challenges for designing such interfaces?

Jørn Knutsen and Jon Olav Eikenes will arrange a full day workshop at the NORDES conference Engaging Artifacts in Oslo, August 30 – September 1, 2009. The participants will be introduced to theoretical concepts and design techniques for prototyping screen-based interfaces that make use of visual movement. Participants will work hands-on in groups, exploring techniques for developing simple prototypes. The workshop ends with a general discussion in which we address theoretical as well as practical issues.

Download workshop description (PDF).

Conference program. NB: early registration until August 1.

To be presented: Social Navimation

I will present a full peer-reviewed paper on the Nordic Design Research conference NORDES’09: Engaging Artefacts, which will take place in Oslo in the end of August this year. The paper is called ‘Social Navimation: Engaging Interfaces in Social Media’, and explores how visually dynamic interfaces can enhance social media applications. This potential is investigated through experimental design production, followed by a textual analysis of the resulting interface prototypes. The term ’social navimation’ is introduced and applied in the analysis, in which I investigate how semiotic resources from navimation are connected to features of social media. Hopefully, the paper will be of interest for both theory and practice of interface and interaction design, and new media studies in general.

UPDATE: The conference program and all papers are now available here. Download the full paper: Social Navimation: Engaging Interfaces in Social Media (PDF).

This blogpost is also posted on the Navimation Research blog.