Digital Yet Invisible: Making Ambient Informatics More Explicit to People

Posted: July 1st, 2008 | 6 Comments »

In Torino today for the Frontiers of Interaction conference where I’ve just given a talk entitled “Digital Yet Invisible: Making Ambient Informatics More Explicit to People”. Slides can be found here. The talk was about the paradoxical relationship between visibility and ubiquitous computing, a topic I already tackled in Paris few months ago:

“To some extent, the “disappearing computing” paradigm that Mark Weiser described has been some taken to the letter that digitality services are invisible. There is a very intriguing and recursive tension here that can be summarized by this dilemma: “how to make visible invisible techniques that aim at making visible the invisible“. And what often happens is that this lead to a situation where people think technology works like magic.“

Thanks Leandro for the invitation! The video is available here.

6 Comments on “Digital Yet Invisible: Making Ambient Informatics More Explicit to People”

  1. 1 Putting people first » Frontiers of Interaction said at 12:50 am on July 2nd, 2008:

    [...] of some key presentations — Ashley Benigno, Nicolas Nova (presentation) and Bruce Sterling — are now available online. [...]

  2. 2 Blackbeltjones/Work » Polite, pertinent and pretty: a talk at Web2.0expo SF, April 2008 said at 1:44 am on July 2nd, 2008:

    [...] this, Nicholas Nova’s posted his slides from what sounds like a fascinating talk today: “Digital Yet Invisible: Making Ambient Informatics More Explicit to People”. Looking forward to a summer of more digital/physical [...]

  3. 3 Kars said at 8:32 pm on July 2nd, 2008:

    This looks really interesting Nicolas. Is there a transcript or audio/video recording to accompany this somewhere?

  4. 4 links for 2008-07-03 (Leapfroglog) said at 8:32 am on July 3rd, 2008:

    [...] Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Digital Yet Invisible: Making Ambient Informatics More Explici… Nova has posted his slides for a presentation on ambient informatics. Where he tangles with the issue of “how to make visible invisible techniques that aim at making visible the invisible“… (tags: presentations slides ambientinformatics dataviz nicolasnova) [...]

  5. 5 Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Expliciting the invisible: magnetic movie and pollstream said at 1:46 pm on July 11th, 2008:

    [...] that I’ve found intriguing recently, when looking for documentation before preparing the talk I gave last week in Torino. Can this be part of the “4D urbanism” described by Dan [...]

  6. 6 Yves Grassioulet said at 2:46 pm on July 11th, 2008:

    interesting talk, dude! with a mindful touch of humour :)

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