Few thoughts and questions
Going through the discussions last week and chapters in the book , my mind was intrigued with certain questions I would like to post on the blog. We divide ubiquitous computing strategies in inch ,foot and foot depending on the size of the device . I was wondering if the distinction is clear and we can represent all devices and application models as to me , devices like digital desk technology can be somewhere between foot and yard as we use differnent application models to represent it. With Reactive rooms clearly moving out Computers from box on desk to environment and getting involved in relationships , It becomes pertinent to me to explore designs with more generic applications rather than being confined to one application itself and how designs could be extended to other settings, adapting to changes in the relationship between environment and activities in it. Are we being able to interactionally equate physical and digital media? One important question in social computing is how the different incompatible approaches with different sets of assumptions and commitments have helped us in understanding social action . Is there some underlying equalities in all of them. We all being embodied, all our social and physical actions being embodied,how the embodied interactions is meaningful. I hope to search through the answers of these questions in the coming week