8 March 2004Johan Mattsson 1/8 Continuations for The Magic Bowl Beyond a Fancy Light Switch

8 March 2004Johan Mattsson 2/8 Tangibility in Collaborative Interactive Work Spaces Physically and concretely shared presence Symbolic recreation of imperceptible couplings between applications or devices Peripheral but socially noticeable expression of considerably essential interactions Expressive physical activity, as tangible manipulation of physical artifacts enables descent predictions and an opportunity for socially performance of contra actions Reinventing a social protocol for ambient and mixed interactive computation

8 March 2004Johan Mattsson 3/8 Magic Bowl Overview Hardware interfaces

8 March 2004Johan Mattsson 4/8 Beyond a fancy light switch… Parallelism multiple phicons, combinative configurations, service composition UI, … Personalization Recording and recreating session settings Meeting Manager – FASAD… Ad-hoc, Interactive Work Spaces...? Explorative playing-around…?

8 March 2004Johan Mattsson 5/8 Parallelism Multiple Phicons Currently an technical issue, the current reader don’t manage multiple tags satisfactory Event driven: doesn’t accumulate the resulting work setting Recording the work setting Applications that utilize parallelism Isolated functions

8 March 2004Johan Mattsson 6/8 Personalization Currently easy to make an phicon open and provide access to static project settings Opening shared project folder on statically selected screens Launching used applications as well as peripheral settings Restore – conceptually a shut down and restart as default + current phicon content

8 March 2004Johan Mattsson 7/8 Recording and Recreating session settings A more dynamic way of handling project sessions and their work setup Extending the Work Space Navigator Physical UI to manage work sessions Reactive recreation of room setup Database stored ‘time slices’ of accumulated room state

- To quickly get everything started, they put the start phicon in the Magic Bowl. The light in the room goes on and the computers and public displays start. - One team members puts the Spaceman phicon in the Magic Bowl, to activate a personalized configuration of the room. The documents used during the last working session is provided and open on the preferred public displays. Other specific room setups is also automatically activated. - After a while the group needs to contact their partners at another location, they put the video conferencing phicon in the Magic Bowl to start a video conference (VC) meeting. This involves both calling the remote partner and displaying the video from the remote location on one of the large wall displays and a document shared via Messenger (Application Sharing) shows a shared agenda and support shared note taking for the video conference. - To end the VC they remove the video conference phicon from the bowl, the VC closes down - At the end of the meeting they removing the project phicon from the Magic Bowl and the configuration is saved - The team finally also removes the start phicon from the bowl, which results in shutting down the public computers, lightning and public displays. Illustrating Scenario: The spaceman project meeting