One of my goals for the Educational Technology program is to learn how to develop a humanistic element to technology when the virtual environment can sometimes feel cold and impersonal. In keeping with this line of thinking, I have elected to investigate sociable media.

Saturday, October 16, 2004

The Sociable Media Group (MIT)

The Sociable Media Group investigates issues concerning identity and society in the networked world. They asks questions such as "what does a virtual crowd look like" and they build experimental interfaces and installations that explore new forms of social interaction.

Take a look at what they are exploring:

posted by Cheryl at 8:42 PM

2 Comments:

Blogger psparks said...

This is great .. A few thoughts. Several yers ago working with a masters student we identified several group or community emotes (vs personal) that would be handy in a more visual Virtual Learning Environment...

group hug
group high five
general disinterest
move onto next topic for sake of class
group looking at the clock
idividual shun, etc.

Would be great to play with these to see how they could best be implemented
in a shared virtual space...

October 17, 2004 at 10:40 AM

 
Blogger Cheryl said...

Nick & Paul,
Thanks for your comments!
I have more to share about web identity (Nick) and would like to know more about your "group emote" project (Paul).
I plan to be better about posting to my blog, ('cause I have good info to share!)

Cheryl

November 7, 2004 at 11:12 PM

 

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