FITC 2005 Presentations - Multi-User Concepts

Multi-User Concepts & Code

Colin Moock - [www.moock.org]

FITC 2005

-> Costs to keep trash in CyberSpace

-> No trash on the Internet

-> Environment changes because of users actually using it

Such as gum on a sidewalk
Bring those kinds of environmental changes into the online world
Visualize a pattern of use

-> U CO-OP

Goal is to force users to interact
Starts with a blank page
Accounts for deviance
Provide natural feelings of togetherness online
Take ideas from gaming community
Links that have been traveled more are darker like a deeper path cut through a field from more travelers
Collective knowledge is embedded into the environment

-> Dan Albritton & Marcos Wellkamp

Social Circles
Google News Map
Great multi-user applications

-> Dentsu site

Varying modes with numbers floating across the screen
Tracking elevators live
"tracking the path in the woods through a building"
Wanted to show activity inside the agency
100 color palette
Real-Time interaction with personal data
"Dentsu is moving"
Also going to do more interaction pieces with people swiping ID cards at front gates, etc.
Why elevators?
Echo of user activity
Includes a development mode where you can send him a swf and he can put it in there to see how it works