well welcome thanks for coming so when
when Nancy asked me about about doing

the forum I thought that what we should
try and do is provide you an overview

and of what we're doing relative to
interactive products where we think it's

going and it's diversifying over the
years so but I thought it would be

really important to provide a bit of a
historic content context for you so my

presentation is kind of a background of
how we got to where we are and then I'm

going to hand it over to Noah and
Stewart and way so my background I had I

worked in industrial design consulting
for 20 years before I got started then

I've been teaching for 20 plus years my
research focuses on interactive product

design and the application of new
technologies to design education know as

a research scientist in the imagine lab
in the college he's he's been through

our program he has two degrees in
industrial design and mechanical

engineering and also a master's degree
in human-computer interaction he works

in our lab his expertise is in 3d
modeling visualization and physical

prototyping and he's going to talk about
some of the work he's been doing

Stuart's founding principle of praxis 3
just done some pretty interesting

buildings has been I want a number of
awards for the work he's done he's also

a professor of practice in
school of engine Arabic school of

architecture for the past 25 years so
Stuart has been doing some pretty

interesting work on the use of
interactive technologies and

architecture Wei Wong as a system
professor in the school of industrial

design his background in Nokia
technologies and has been doing work in

the application of interactive
technologies into automotive technology

specifically is what he's going to talk
about today and he's been a great

support in our lab and our curriculum in
terms of teaching interactive

technologies to our students so I want
to talk about sort of this notion of

technology creeping in and it's and
that's really what's happened it's sort

of crept up on us and we really haven't
sort of been necessarily aware of the

changes that have happened as we move
forward so john thakura thakura the

director of doors of perception which is
sort of a think-tank that operated for

20 years in the UK came up with this
quotient for me it was influential in my

thinking about design so he said what
happens to society when there are

hundreds of microchips for every man
woman and child on the planet what

cultural consequences follow when every
object around us is smart and connected

and what happens psychologically when
you step into the garden to look at the

flowers and the flowers look at you so
this was 20 years ago

when John said this and and it sort of
seemed pretty speculative at that point

but it's really truly a reality now and
we'll talk about that so these are some

of the factors that sort of drove all
this in 2002 we had a big shift so this

was this is all based on the fact that
the internet really sort of opened up in

the very late 90s and early 2000s but
all of a sudden there was this spike

there were 16 million camera phones in
2002 over half the data traffic on the

Internet
was for gaming so just things we

probably weren't even aware of at that
time

but this shift really sort of for us
pointed at the opportunity for designers

to begin to explore the relationship
between people and technologies and how

technologies would begun to
we begin to use technologies so this is

a bit of a history of interactive
products so Speak & Spell was probably

one of the first interactive products
that leveraged speech synthesis so it

was just a box that could talk to you
basically then you know sort of backing

you the next next sort of wave was this
interactive toy some of the first

efforts to try and build interactive
toys and there were some crude attempts

so there was this little device called
Andy was kind of a robot

there were pet stirs and teddy ruxpin
the next generation were little devices

that began to sort of focus on nurture
based interaction so Tamagotchi was a

little device that children had was a
little frightening for them because they

had to keep it alive if you didn't feed
and talk to your Tamagotchi would

literally die was stopped working so
it's pretty frightening for children and

then Furby was a scary character in and
of himself and you never knew quite what

he was going to do sorry and one of the
real sort of big steps forward was this

project at MIT called kismet
Cynthia Brazil developed this robot it

was driven by a roomful of computers
about the size of this room in order to

develop this as a as a device that could
convincingly talk to you and have a

discussion with you so it's one of the
big first steps into that level of

interaction how did the MIT work came
the programmable brick which is in fact

the Lego robotic system and so this
focus on robots started to sort of

happen and you've got things like any
C's Entertainment robot that could do

things like turn on the television for
you at a voice command and run around

the house one of the big successes with
sony's AIBO and one of the reasons why

the the sort of an animal oriented
robots were more successful so i both

sort of was modeled after a dog it
looked like a dog and it acted like a

dog and if it didn't work well you could
accept the fact that with the stubborn

dog that's okay whereas those who were
sort of designed after someone who would

be a serving robot if they didn't do
what you wanted them to do that was kind

of annoying and it was sort of a Fault
in the system so this is actually so

Sonne developed i bow and i biblia love
the robot devices on the market this is

the seventh generation robot I bow and
it had the ability to find its way back

to its charging station you could talk
to hi Bo it understood you it responded

with colour interaction on the screen
and and it could find its way around the

room it learned obstacles in the room
and could work from that front at the

other end of the spectrum we had Honda's
eyes as ammo' and as emoted the most

sophisticated robots out there it can
walk up and down stairs it can it can

retrieve devices for you and they've
been gradually moving this forward their

target is to have a team of as amost
that can compete in the World Cup

I think the target was something like
twenty fifty and they want to be able to

compete at a professional world level at
that time at the same time parallel to

this Philips design in 1995 started this
initiative called vision of the future

and they hired 300 designers from around
the world to develop interactive

products and different ideas and they
asked people to look 20 years down the

road the surprising thing was is that 95
percent or 85 to 90% of the products

that they developed and concepts were in
production within less than five years

so it's really sort of said something
about if we could think about it we

could probably make it happen so that
was an important observation to sort of

look at then Philip shifted to this
notion of not just products but the fact

that there was this notion of ambient
technology so we could embed technology

in the environment around us that would
allow us to then talk to the environment

and then there was this project joint
venture between Toyota and Sony to

create this car called a pod you see the
yellow colors on the front this car

could generate different colors to to
sort of showcase the emotional state of

the people in the vehicle so red was
kind of a warning system that you better

watch out because they're agitated but
the car then would that would take

actions to sort of try and correct this
so it would turn on the radio maybe to a

some music station that would help try
and calm people down or if you went by

Starbucks and stopped one day it would
keep track of that and the next day

would ask you whether you want it to
stop for a coffee at Starbucks so it

raised a lot of questions about what
could we do and what should we do

because obviously you don't want the car
to ask you if you want to stop for

coffee every time you go by a Starbucks
car and then so Stefano Morano who is

that who is the head of this project at
Philips suggested that you know what

happens when when you when you talk and
the walls can talk back so this whole

notion of what happens when the
environment is totally interactive and

so this notion of networked technologies
really starts to raise a lot of concerns

for us as well so the issues of privacy
security and safety all become issues

and they're obviously very current in
this day and age so our goal was to try

and find a balance between this between
the technology and the emotional events

and psychology event and so this whole
thing of trying to balance these issues

was where we started to drive forward so
the cycle back to John Thacker is quote

in 2004 one of my student teams
developed this project called plantera

and they basically stuck sensors in the
plant that could detect light and

moisture and the plant could then
respond to you using audio signals to

indicate whether or not it was feeling
well so the plant is literally talking

to you as per as per John Thacker has
comment so we get to this point where

you know the the potential of products
around us to be able to do things like

support elderly people who are living on
their own and to be able to create this

dialogue so where do we go from there
that was our question and in sort of the

early 2000s so my students started
playing around with the technology in

the lab and I started to sort of acquire
some of this technology and one of them

one of the team's designed this project
called page craft for a Microsoft

competition and I so it's a storytelling
system you build with blocks on a system

and it would record what you've done on
the screen and you could build a story

page by page and it was a concept but I
asked them well maybe we could build

this and they were sort of we could
build this yeah

we actually did so this is the working
prototype we were able to build this

company build this and it was showcased
around the world at a number of

conferences another project that sort of
scaled up from that was this project

called curio which is an autonomous
interactive museum guide so this project

was a speculative project based on the
idea that people go to a museum to share

the experience with family and what we
do is put headphones on and put PDA or a

cell phone in their hands and it breaks
up that whole visit so this was about

developing a set of interactive tools
that allowed people to sort of probe and

question what was going on in the museum
and to be able to share it with one

another and we were able to prototype
this and prove that it was actually

workable this project involved 26 people
from three different institutions to do

it over a three-year period and and we
were able to sort of develop and test it

so that leading from that when I came
here I developed the interactive product

design lab because I felt it was really
important that we embed this whole

process of understanding these
technologies into the into the school

prayer into the curriculum so the lab
was built as a way to prototype the

technologies to allow us to explore the
kinds of things that might be possible

here and one of the tools that we
developed so we developed curriculum

around this and one of the tools that we
used first off was the Lego Mindstorms

kit so there was sort of this division
between robots and interactive products

we use this all as interactive
technologies to sort of embed and sort

of hide the technology and sort of focus
on the social interaction that was

happening and we used as a driver the
notion of why do you want to design it

what kind of a product could you develop
why would it be useful to someone and

how do you go about doing it
so having said all that this technology

is all antiquated now and doesn't exist
we don't even use this anymore so that's

how fast is the field and the technology
is changing so what you're going to hear

from here is from the others here
presenting are the ideas of looking to

the future what are we looking at now
where are we going where did where do

they think this is all happening and as
I stated before our objective is to

explore the potential to produce
products and systems that are aware of

people
and can help you do the kinds of things

that you want to do in your daily life
so I'm going to hand it over so that's

sort of the history a quick overview
I've been handed over to Noah and he's

going to show us what he's been doing
and how it fits into the kind of work

that were involved in yay
hi I'm Noah Posner I'm a research

scientist here with a group called the
imagine lab but I also do a lot of work

within the interactive product design
lab sort of helping to run that space

helping students with projects I also
teach a couple courses on camera have

taught a couple courses currently I'm
teaching a physical prototyping course

for human creator interaction master's
students but what am I talking about

here is a about prototyping connection
so we have these interactive products

but how do we actually start making them
what goes into them what do we need to

consider when making them so so what is
an interactive prototype so an

interactive prototype something that
users can interact with obviously but

they're more than that they support
interaction they communicate with other

systems and they allow users to directly
interact with them they exhibit some

sort of response so not only are you
touching them or talking to them but

they're talking back and they help you
to increase your knowledge about maybe

how a system works what goes into that
system or what technology is involved

they also help you explore technology
they let you try out different pieces of

hardware different pieces of software
different methods different bits of code

but when we're talking about technology
what what is this technology and so this

technology sort of falls on a spectrum
when dealing with interactive products

at the base level this technology is
just human it's people acting things out

demonstrating and it can go all the way
up to custom circuit boards custom

written software on custom systems one
of the most simple aspects of sort of

interactive products are is the wizard
the Wizard of Oz but it ends up looking

a little more like this in reality
Wizard of Oz is a method where a person

as the computer system sort of driving
the interaction generally without

speaking or without guiding the user
just to understand how a system could

possibly operate also a great human
technique that's used for designing

interaction is body storming so the idea
of just acting out how you might

interact with a product so how might you
answer your phone with your t-shirt or

how would you greet your coffee maker in
the morning just acting these things out

can be really informative and so how to
design behaviors for these products we

can also use existing systems things
that we have on us to create really sort

of powerful interactive prototypes this
is actually a BMW Concept which utilizes

two Apple iPhones just tucked into cases
to make them look like futuristic gait

clusters we can also use these systems
with touchscreens on prototyping tools

such as envision to create interactive
prototypes that are although you know

just based around cardboard we can have
these interactive screens create really

robust interaction um there's also a lot
of technology systems that are out there

different plug-and-play
this is a product called little bits

which is really sort of basic
electronics prototyping but allow you to

create sort of interactive and
responsive systems getting a little more

complex a spark funds spectacle system
allows for a bit more programming it's

done on the on your cell phone but just
lets you plug things in with headphone

connectors systems like makey makey as a
board which allows you to turn anything

you can imagine into a controller to
drive a game or to drive an experience

and certain companies have picked up
sort of on this idea an Xbox Microsoft

has just released the Xbox adaptive
controller designed to help people with

disabilities but it also can be used for
prototyping interactions as you can

basically connect any switch or joystick
you can imagine to it to drive a

computer system um we really can't
continue talking about technology and

interactive products without addressing
the sort of small portable elephant in

the room
known as Arduino the Arduino platform is

a easy
to program relatively system that has a

real wide variety of resources available
people have done thousands of projects

with this and there are a lot of
companies that provide great learning

resources on this platform it's also
really adaptable it allows you to easily

hook up a whole variety of sensors from
sort of commercial grade to actually

like industrial level sensing to it to
create a whole variety of experiences

and it comes in a real variety of form
factors

there are tons out there this is just a
small sample of what's available that

all of these are the Arduino platforms
are all programmed the same way they all

use the basic same concepts but allow
you to fit them into different sort of

environments so you might need something
that can have a lot of inputs or

something that can be attached to fabric
and can work through conductive thread

you also then have platforms that I'm
sort of standardized in their size such

as the Adafruit feather but has a whole
bunch of different varieties of radios

and communication standards different
varieties of this one version um

what's really interesting recently is
that these systems have become smaller

but incredibly powerful these two
examples here's is the Gemma and the

trinket m0 both of these are using the
m0 trip which is an incredibly powerful

chip capable of driving say thousands of
LEDs but these are not much bigger than

a quarter and so and this is a you know
an $8 under $10 piece of hardware that

you can create really immersive and
incredible experiences with they're also

some really feature-rich boards out
there this is the circuit playground

which I use in my class to help students
sort of learn how to integrate

electronics into products which has a
whole suite of sensors both input and

output built into it so you don't have
to even learn how to solder for this you

can just plug in and start working
immediately there's a huge variety of

input devices every sensor you can
imagine can be adapted easily to work

with Arduino
and a huge variety of output devices

most of these end up being blinky lights
but Arduinos can also drive varieties of

motors vibration systems haptics audio
really anything you can come up with you

can basically prototype with an Arduino
although Arduinos are great for

prototyping they do run into some
limitations particularly when it comes

to form factor in terms of maybe getting
something that's the exact size or shape

that you need and price some of them can
get kind of expensive a lot of it comes

in terms of power usage if you're trying
to create really efficient systems

Arduino is aren't quite the way to go
and so custom boards are sort of the

next step even custom circuitry has come
down in price greatly and they're now

services that even offer fully assembled
custom boards so that all you have to do

is say I need my board to look like this
and have these parts on it and it shows

up in the mail in five days from
possibly anywhere in the world um so how

do we integrate this how do we actually
bring these things together into usable

products so one of the things is how is
this stuff made sometimes it's soft you

might want to start with something
two-dimensional like some laser-cut felt

in this case that can then create 3d
forms that are squishy and sort of fun

to interact with and also very robust
they can take kind of quite a beating we

can also integrate into textiles using
conductive threads so above LEDs and

even so Lord we know platforms and then
there's the hard objects so creating

sort of structural elements sometimes
this can be as simple as cardboard that

are just purely mechanical but allow you
asked how an interaction might work

would say a new toaster design you could
also have integrated electronics into

these cardboard structures so very rapid
laser-cut assembly very rapid robust

testable models but that can integrate
coin acceptors and RF IDs and LEDs and

screens um and then there's three
uprinting 3d printing has come down in

price and increased in quality over the
years and it will most likely continue

to do so but it's possible to utilize 3d
printing to get really custom fit around

these electronics this precise
positioning is capable being that you

can most likely either download or model
your electronics and get them to fit

incredibly compact spaces um when it
comes to fitting components um a lot of

times you might start out with something
really loose really just testable and

then as you refine your design you might
move to a much more compact package a

more refined board we can also fit
sensors custom sensor design is totally

doable and actually surprisingly easy
just utilizing some simple copper tape

on various different conductive
materials we can create pressure sensors

that can then go into our products and
allow for interaction um

sometimes with these custom sensors
these are simple copper tape capacitive

sensors but we have to be aware of the
quality of the sensor and the

characteristics of it that capacitive
sensing you can't have your wires cross

any overlapping wire triggers the sensor
so building into our design means of

routing our wires and so that we can
control how they flow through the design

how they come out how they plug in which
then provides us with this reliable

interaction and a reliable experience um
one of the things that a lot of students

run into particularly in their projects
is access we think we build something we

put in a box we close up the box and
we're done but with this prototyping

process a lot of times things go wrong
things break wires come loose so how do

we actually get into our designs after
we've made them an understanding both

from a prototyping standpoint but also
from a future possible manufacturing

kind of levels to input how might we get
into it are we just going to have a hole

in the back that we can reach in and
quickly adjust things or are we going to

have tongue and groove sliding doors
that seal with screws there's a whole

variety of options and also reuse
some of these components can be quite

expensive and so although we may be
building them into our cardboard model

for testing covering them with hot glue
may not be the appropriate method and so

a lot of the technologies we have say 3d
printing allow us to design quick easy

pin fits so that we can fit a relatively
expensive RFID reader into our

relatively cheap cardboard housing done
finally a testing becomes really

important the reason why we build these
things is to test them so sometimes this

testing takes a form of sort of this
Wizard of Oz style just bringing people

in interacting with it sometimes it's a
little more environmental installing a

system and just seeing how users behave
with it a lot of these ideas that we're

testing haven't been done before or
haven't been done very often or haven't

been done at the scale that we're
looking at and so how do we evaluate

these different things how do we test
them in ecological conditions and a

really key aspect of developing
interactive products is teamwork

most of these sort of projects these
objects are not done by a single person

or by a single skillset they're really
kind of an interdisciplinary approach

particularly the really robust projects
require knowledge of electronics

knowledge of code knowledge of design
and fabrication and so bringing together

teams with different backgrounds and
different skills can really make for

powerful projects and having spaces like
the IP DL that do bring people together

in these environments allow for quite
interesting and creative projects to

flourish
thank you it's all I got okay good

morning everyone
so just like a.j mentioned I'm assistant

professor in Swap industrial design and

so I joined Georgia Tech for like two
years ago

and before that I walking in China
and I live in London for one years and I

used walking in a Finnish company Nokia
to me the mobile phone so so first sorry

for my accent it's because finish and
some days and second sorry I have I have

to take some notes to make this
presentation so yeah so my teaching and

research experience is interested on the
user experience and interaction design

so most specifically how to use the
interactive prototyping tools message

just like a know I showed to prop user
experience issues in smart product

design so today I will talk about some
students walk in last two years in my

Georgia Tech career the topic on connect
people in driving so in last two years

most of my time is just a academic
position so not too much time to do my

personal research but I would like to
share some of my sought here so here are

two pictures so in the lab is way most
the newest UI and you will find actually

the sheer deer the real-time sensor and
the image acquired by the sensor and

radar in the car to the people in the
carbon so you may actually it's quite

interesting the human-machine
interaction relationship changed we used

to drive the car but now the car sharing
the information to us and in the in the

in the right the project made by Renault
and Ubisoft so they put a virtual

reality Hansen in the in the Renault car
and it's a fully self-driving car and

you will find actually people can play
any immersive video game during the

journey and the most interesting thing
is that we are since an interaction

would be real-time rendering by the cars
the physical reality in the real world

it's quite dynamic so you have actually
which can of virtual reality and real

reality is changed and the car wheel
drive and the car falafel user will be

like another like a gaming machine
entertainment environment in the virtual

reality so you'll find a lot of
interesting thing happens so that's why

the driving error the driving topic
thought of normal striving self-driving

cars would become like a whelp the
biggest promising area could leading

some really pro construed technology in
over interactive world and over daily

life so if we look back in the history
actually the whole driving experience is

the history of Prasad to continually
increasingly to adapt to some new

information and new interactive
technology for example in 1960s we have

over first iridium over car and in the
driving related information there have

some speed and other information showing
the dashboard and if we look at this map

you will find now we are in quite
interesting we caught tricky trigger

point because now we somehow in the 2018
so we launched some OEM the manufacture

long launched like a conditional
automated driving system which will

release over a lot of attention and
other human efforts on other non driving

related task or activity and from our
study research we predict that in future

the non driving related information will
dynamically increase but the driving

related information will decrease so how
we can provide a better user interface

or HMI we call forward future user
that's a big opportunity for our

designers and researchers so here are a
project otherwise by me it's made by

Michele Chu
who is well over I D minor but this is

the project from hers independent study
so it's called how I can share the oh

it's here sorry
it's called constellation mapper

so it's a project we want to create some
interesting interaction in the song roof

with augmented reality because when
people talk about augmented reality in

car most people focus on the windshield
because that's some drivers attention in

the front but we believe in future if
highly autonomous system adapt it had

more chance our requirements for multi
people interaction so the sunroof is the

one of the best interface for multi
people for the front row for the back

seat they can share in some information
even they can play some game together

then we made this this small project and
we made some study what kind of like a

current interactive documentary arity
like projector harder technology used in

current industry and then Michelle made
some concepts so we try to create some

new use case for this augmented reality
sunroof and so that's some process and

later we want to fix overcome tab on
some like the constellation mapper that

help multiple people could share a
stream like a constellation and share

some inner information and play some
light game based on the interface and

Michelle made the interface in the
laptop for several week every week we

will by me and we found something
different some some some points wrong

because they think probably that
interfaith would be totally different

compared with over scream interface
because Misha is

the interface on her scream so the icon
they all it's quite hung like a current

like a touchscreen my other interface
though we put some of our the interface

in this is all over HMI lab they lead by
Wendy so we put the sis rule the big

display here and Michelle made some like
a template for some usability basic

usability testing like a what the phone
side very the battle day off and we got

a lot of understanding and inside
actually we found actually there are

some limitation for the ridgepole corner
for different people in different see

and even for the same information for
different orientation we need handle

some kind of like the some kind of like
actually that's distortion about the

image and other because that distant day
is too close and how like a the front

row and back row people could share in
the same information so it's a really

funny per gag and it actually it it has
actually in future different interface

in a car would have different design
principle and these are understanding

and it need a lot of user experience
research and understanding on that so we

talked about automated driving systems
so this is a matrix we create so in the

horizontal dimension is different level
of the driving automation this is level

0 that's long automation level Y is low
automation and in this part is level 5

dots are for automation
anyway paid put like a different human

attention based on different level of
the driving features here for example

the center of attention that's for level
one because you will find actually level

one people need handle so many different
tasks

but in level 5 actually it's only
limited worry low level of human

attention and your race outside of the
attentional field or peripheral field so

a lot of big fundamental principle for
were HMI design and the tricky point is

actually here from level 2 to level 3
the conditional automation so it

required people still put some attention
on the driving task but in most case in

in the routine driving case the machine
can handle that that's quite tricky

because if happening some like hazard of
some like a participant cross the street

some some issue need people involved or
inter in the task people need to take

their attention back to the task which
we call the takeover request takeover

request the key usability of human issue
in conditional Auto normal striving so

we made this study otherwise for now
with the which is well forward our MIT

students and we try to use the the
prototypes used introduced by Noah and

made two different prototype why is
provide some alert directional

information in users central attention
for example user looked looked down

their mobile phone or any display the
error would have alert arrow or

something in his central attention
occurs in central attention another

happened in the peripheral attention
appropriate so for the proper one we

used Arduino to miss some like a dynamic
arrow so then we we tested in simulator

this is the test here you can find
actually a bar wrote when the screen in

the screen in the role have some object
need people to pay attention and aha and

we used some eye tracking and some
other Messel to analyze the data and we

find some quite interesting findings for
example for the central metal is we put

two kind of different like a immersive
task wise

30-second gave me another is too many
meanings gaming and we found actually

compared with the short immersive and
long immersive that too much different

for the central one but for the program
provides quite diverse and it's only

useful for the further shali mercy but
not for the line worship and we call

some other more details friends from the
eye tracking every time when people look

up and they always want to they always
look down and try to find some more

additional information in the screen
actually that's a very big design

implication I have to see for all kinds
of manufacture we want to provide such

kind of driving assistant in the car so
then we build this design space if we

look at the design speed we will find
actually there are different human

enrollment and now we focus on the
driving but in future we will focus on

the other users in arrows before and
after driving and different other touch

point so here is the current space in
level 0 the non automated driving and

that's a the upper space we we believe
will cover more touch phone from int

arrow X 0 to some remote remoted wave by
your phone and other different users in

arrow before and after driving that's
the future design space for or folio to

normal driving so probably sorry I
cannot show this case but I would like

to talk with you after this presentation
and enough in the fennel I will thanks

the faculty development ground
and BMW USA which sponsored my research

my studio and over H are my lab lead by
Wendy okay well yes and well thanks for

inviting me here today
again this Jim mentioned I'm on the

faculty here in architecture but what
I'm excited to talk about today is the

interdisciplinary kind of collaborations
that are going on between architecture

and industrial design we got to know
each other more with both faculty and

students and the two programs through
looking at the library project that is

going up the hill as all of you know
under construction currently and we're

also as my role in praxis 3 the
architecture design team and from the

very GetGo we were asked to be part of
the team because as an architect

I've often for many many years have been
looking into in fact this kind of

in-between zone between the physical
architecture

and digital media and that shows a
little brief history of how we and

myself working with Fred Piersall Diller
Scofidio New York praxis 3 Amy Landis

Berg have done projects that have been
looking into the future is how the role

of interactive media and that experience
is going to be transforming architecture

the physical this intersection between
the physical and the virtual and we

presented that fact the library is
really we think that it's going through

radical transformation and the books in
fact at Georgia Tech in many libraries

are diminishing and their physical
presence and electronic media is taking

their place and in fact that seems like
do we even want to call it a library

anymore but we were showing in this
history that really the media its media

we call media now electronic is what we
think of but media has been with us for

the distribution of information and
knowledge and scholarship since ancient

times and it was in stone tablet form
it's been in physical book form and now

it's taking on more ephemeral electronic
digital form and so our challenge was

with the libraries though being these
of iconic sort of signifiers of

scholarship at the center of communities
and campuses with the vast awesome

arrays of books that inspired our
students and faculty to someday

contribute to those bookshelves this was
once the historic library of the college

of architecture and college of design
and with the books as you see on the

left kind of leaving how could we as
architects still inspire scholarship

through other kinds of means of
awestruck and so we are collaborating

with in fact experienced designers I
came to know through Jim this program

here in industrial design an illustrious
graduate among many hunter Spence who

works at second story a they're called
experienced designers they're a part of

sapient razorfish advertising and media
and they are working with us to in fact

translate physical design into digital
kinds of experiences and this showed one

they showed us was a Museum in Basel
Switzerland that has started to use the

physical and the digital and integrated
ways the one on the right is an idea

that we have for the library that is
currently finishing up in design and we

hope will be implemented it's for the
bridge that you saw on that first slide

and the media bridge is now called the
kind of working name is an incredibly

potent possibility to signify
scholarship not only for the new

transform library but really at the
crossroads of our campus it's at the

apex of the campus on the top of the
hill it's at the crossroad between the

south north axis Cherry Street corridor
and the Bobby Dodd concourse and so we

looked at this as an opportunity to see
how we could again do something that

takes you know the that re inspires like
the grand halls of books had done and to

do that we were experimenting with the
media and the content which second story

has been very active on how could that
be interactive and engage students in

ways and then how could that be
physically not just a screen hung on the

wall there's this phenomena now just
screamed

line.this where we actually tune out
screams that are trying to deliver

information and shopping malls and
everywhere and especially they didn't

want it to be just another scoreboard
and stadium we talked about the fun

factor in the products that create you
know engagement through play and we take

that seriously actually serious play but
how did we make this not just equivalent

to stadium kind of media so our idea was
to see if we could in fact change the

configurations the materiality zuv glass
constructions to take these invisible

clouds of digital information and
knowledge that we're that are up there

and are going to be feeding the
libraries and the sense of content for

students and faculty to access and make
that somehow come alive and present in a

kind of prism that refracts that
invisible spectrums of information in

ways that are very mercurial and aren't
quite what you first think they are and

so it took has taken a lot of
experimentation and this is in fact an

animation that we created with them to
show a bit how some of these streams of

information would in the sense seem to
ascend and descend in a cycle from the

cloud would pool at the underside
anti-gravity like at the ceiling here as

you see this is again walking under it
and in a sense pool information into

very vivid kinds of experiences of
what's going on on campus the kinds of

current events and an environmental
dashboard that tells us how the building

which is meant to be LEED Platinum how
its performing to conserve energy and

all of these sort of information that
here at the crossroads we thought would

be very informative educational but
hopefully inspiring and the challenge

was what would happen then if you in a
sense went behind the curtain we saw The

Wizard of Oz early and see well how in
fact is some of this happening we're all

technologically inclined at this
institute of technology and how does

things work and in that regard and I
think I'll actually skip this to save

time we did start to experiment this is
in second storeys own labs with

prototyping the kinds of glass
configurations the

technologies the what you're seeing is
actually through reflection and

refractions of information that will be
concealed from the viewer they have to

be flipped and reversed because of
reflection and the main thing I also

wanted to talk about them of course is
then what is the interactivity with that

device that we're trying to invent that
we hope will incite curiosity to go and

see what's going on but can you step
inside of and step inside of a story

that second stories as you see from
their namesake actually kind of driving

mission is to step inside of stories and
engage them interactively and so we do

hope that when in fact you are curious
enough to see something mysterious

ephemeral mercurial on the outside to
come in and see how it's working things

are reversed
things are flipping in terms of their

orientation and as far as content we of
course thought the most important guides

to content are the users the students
and some faculty and we have been the

beneficiary as designers of a great user
group here not only the faculty and

library faculty but they've engaged
advisory boards and students for many

years that's three years we're going on
five years of student advisory boards

that have been telling us how would they
interact with the library would they be

browsing for books now that we've gone
way past the card catalogs and new

immersive interactive ways and they've
been incredibly you know informative and

and really good critics for what we put
out there that we think oh this is how

you'll use it know the students and the
changes here to you know how they'll use

it so it's going to be a very flexible
system but what we heard was could in

fact at this icon the new tech tower
almost of the campus still have a

personal individual interactive mode and
in fact can they in fact leave their

mark at least temporarily on the bridge
this would be for interaction engaging

scholarship and frankly for some fun too
and so in fact we're looking at using

not the devices that of course are now
ubiquitous to engage through apps and

other
connections to the information streams

and things ways for students and faculty
at certain times of day to be able to

interact with it this is a preliminary
conceptual idea for a kind of artistic

interaction it's called where in fact
students can through the engagement of

their device used through chroma key
replacement that was what you actually

if you notice quickly the thing we did
for CNN Center was using the idea of

augmented reality where chroma key
replacement and markers can let students

interact with parts of it through
certain kinds of apps and in fact relax

on a playful way but seriously look at
what how media can become a new palette

for their kinds of experimentations and
explorations and the second one I want

to bring it again knowing that we're
almost out of time is the culture

creator this will be implemented first
it's going to remind people of the

Clough buildings tiered seating that
students love to socialize on and study

on and what's going to be activated
through streams again and content of

media that will engage them in a forum
like setting for political views social

kinds of interactions that get expressed
in various ways and these are some of

the experimentations polling as you
might imagine is very popular the

students said of just seeing what other
people on campus think about things and

how could that be displayed and engaging
ways and invite responses that will

actually have sensors in the ceiling
that can heat map until we're bodies are

and move the content around between
bodies at bodies and things like that

and I'll just finish by saying this is
an active kind of example that's showing

how that's going to possibly work really
media for architects now still images

and renderings just won't work in these
situations to communicate in fact the

kind of kinetic time factor of how
things move over time this is going to

be other you saw from the outside the
beacon of the new library before the

bridge gets built that'll be another
year and a half off but this is going to

open up we hope within the next few
months and so you see kind of how the

can reactivate a very similar good
experience that Clough pioneered and

have students interact again through
their devices so just that's actually

turns out to be coincidentally an image
that I think Noah you kind of left with

to the sense of it so I think all of us
are really to take questions now

right after we haven't

so when I think about what was the role
of library I think of a place where I

can actually go and sleep and fall can
track and study and not really socialize

or get distracted or overwhelm with with
information so how do you see this

future Georgia Tech library accommodates
that need and also focus on how we can

actually isolate and give a space and

non-distracting condition for students
there's a very very good question and

actually what we heard from peers like
yourself from students is that actually

for as immersed in media as they are all
the time the library could be the one

kind of refuge from all of that
bombardment and we're very aware of that

that's why in fact when what you were
seeing the role of media is going to be

as I said kind of mercurial and not
overwhelmingly just kind of an assault

but even that is going to be limited in
certain areas and the library from the

day one I'll brief to say that the
section of the library from the lowest

floors to the top floors was the driving
force on the programming of what spaces

would be where is that the socially
interactive spaces for collaboration

which is the other purpose of the
library to be a kind of neutral space

outside of the individual school silos
for people to come together and

collaborate will be on the lower floors
but as you ascend through the library

less and less of this and media and more
and more quiet and refuge in places to

cocoon and nicely to get because they
said the one of their most important

values the library is a place to you
know be contemplative and get away from

it all
yeah so

interact in future reality glasses or as
fun

actually that's a very good question
safety the biggest concern our biggest

fundamental principle for all
interaction design in the car so all

things wait so it's just a based on the
foliage safety conditions and actually

that's why we studied like this kind of
take over request how faster people can

receive like a difference if t so for
the virtuality and occupational reality

in the sunroof that's just a some
explorative perry jack is very very far

so if we you put it up in the skill we
made it's in the level five you know far

futures corner so it's not something
will happen in next 3-5 years

I came out a bit late but if you guys
could

individually go through and you guys
there's a limit you know Steve Jobs said

no or I think we're pending reports and
it had ax people what they wanted to do

it for me a pastor how do you guys
decide when not to start this name to

input from customers or what have you
how do you internally modulate

that level of
of success because for example how the

visit agree that a series of reports on
surveys and how many marketing plates

are packed and acts very specific
questions and each time the products

failed so how do you guys internally
deal with

and to dissolve be included at your own
of creativity to get shore

for your time

because I can I can try that one um so I
think there's a difference between

asking people what they want and then
giving them exactly what they asked for

so predict predict in the Henry Ford
example that like you know we ask people

what they want they want a faster horse
because they only know horses and

they've never seen cars etc but part of
that is interpreting also the data that

you're receiving so it's not just you're
taking in data and then spitting it back

out so if I ask the room you know what
color do you want your iPhone and all of

you give me 30 colors and I say ok we're
gonna make those 30 colors that's

probably not the best idea from a
manufacturing standpoint a cost

standpoint but to take the Henry Ford
example if you ask people you know what

do they want they want a faster way of
moving around not necessarily that that

is a horse or that is a car or train but
trying to interpret interpret your data

and also making sure that you're asking
good questions it's really easy to ask

bias questions or questions that just
give you the data that you want to hear

particularly in user testing
particularly with devices it's very easy

to bias users particularly but what
prompts you give them at the beginning

if you say hey this is a touchscreen
people are going to interact with it as

a touchscreen versus just saying
interact with this device and do they

touch the screen or do they bat the
sides of it do they turn knobs etc so I

think part of that is designing good
studies making sure that you know the

questions you're asking or good that
you're trying to avoid bias in your

question but I think you should always
be talking to your users I think a lot

of the reason why projects products fail
is that people don't talk to their users

that they're so confident in their idea
for a home juicer that squeezes packets

of juice you know for you instead of
just you know using a regular juicer

that you know they think this is the
best idea and they just do it I think a

little different
a nation for that it's a good question

and it's really relevant I in in that
context as these issues have begun to

arise in the design field we've
developed a lot of different

methodologies for trying to understand
how to develop products so there are new

techniques designed ethnography is one
where you spend time watching and

observing people we've learned long ago
that what people say they want isn't

necessarily what they want and
observation is an important

characteristic of that so as so we've
built a whole structure of user

investigation and methodologies for
understanding those into the design

curriculum and you've probably heard the
term Design Thinking

but because it's become very popular in
a number of other areas and they're

trying to adopt it and it's sort of it's
it's a way of adopting these techniques

were actually understanding what people
are doing what they need and what they

want and what's useful and meaningful
and as a result designs becoming a lot

more popular and our students are
finding opportunities to work in fields

very diverse from what would have been
considered traditional design fields

because design has become an effective
problem-solving technique

if anyone's interested in sort of
learning more our lab down the hall on

the interactive product sign lab is room
265 we'd be happy to sort of show you

through and and talk about things if at
any time that's maybe convenient for you

that we don't have to have a class going
on in the space we also have general lab

meetings on Thursdays at 6:00 and say
you're all of them so yes I mean big

part of this is the opportunities for
collaborative research so if you have

work that overlaps with this that you
think might benefit from our engagement

we'd be happy to work with you on all
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