RECORD

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.

Student Project: Musicpartners

In the autumn of 2008, students at AHO conducted a 5 week task looking into how to move from a transaction-based music store, to a store based more on richer experiences around music. See more student projects for RECORD here.

Fan-Fan, Kjetil Austvoll-Dahlgren and Kristin Tobiassen made a cross-platform music store based around a single piece of Norwegian legislation: You are allowed to share the music you buy with five of your closest peers. This laid the foundation for a rich service based on many small groups of five people. However, this also introduced many challenges regarding group dynamics such as maintenance, joining / quitting, leadership and internal communication.

Read more about the concept in their presentation.

Student Project: Telenor mutrack

In the autumn of 2008 students at AHO conducted a 5 week investigation into different solutions for a mobile music shopping experience. See more student projects.

mutrack is group effort by Ingrid A. Clausen, Stina Wessman, Eivind Bergstøl, Lars M. Vedeler and Kristian Sporsheim. The project looks into of how to share and explore music in a physical context. Here is what they write about their it:

mutrack is a concept that act as a link between people, their music and where they like (or hate) to be.
You create a trail or track of where you’ve been by dropping off small teasers of the music you listen to as you go.
The music links to the location and can be found by others after you.
If they want they can buy it when they find it, in order to pick it up, or they can stay in that place and just listen to your song.

If places are special to you, you can add text to and tell the world WHY that song is there. In a way, you create a musical territory or turf.

Learn more about it in their project presentation.