January 12, 2006
Space, Spatiality and Technologies
Managing Multiple Spaces
A. Dix, A. Friday, B. Koleva, T. Rodden, H. Muller, C. Randell, A. Steed, Managing Multiple Spaces. In P. Turner, E. Davenport (eds.) Space, Spatiality and Technologies, Kluwer, 2005.
The authors’ aim is analyse the way in which multiple spaces, both virtual and physical, can co-exist. By this we mean that people and objects may have locations in and relationships to both physical space and one or more virtual spaces, and that these different spaces together interact to give an overall system behaviour and user experience.
They use 4 cases (City, CityWide, the Drift Table and Ambient Wood) to see how multiple physical and virtual spaces interact. The choice of the different environment is pretty pertinent since there are mobile applications and an interactive table. They then discriminate 3 types of space: real space– the locations and activities of actual objects and people in physical space
measured space – the representation of that space in the computer and the representation of locations of objects and people from sensor data, etc.
virtual space – electronic spaces created to be portrayed to users, but not necessarily representing explicitly the real world. [...] [blogged by nicolas on pasta and vinegar]
Posted by jo at January 12, 2006 03:22 PM
