Connect or Not: Exploring Seamless Infrastructures through Out-Bodied Interaction

City | Data | Future SymposiumSelena Savic, selena.savic@epfl.ch IST/EPFL

demystificationforegroundingagency

catches our attention only when it fails the expectations of availability or speed

AWARENESS

what kind of changes will the satisfaction of forecast needs for wireless communication bandwidth bring?

FUTURE

Wireless Infrastructure

medium = message = infrastructure

wirelessness

inv isible , immater ial , seamless, digital. . .

Out-bodied Interaction

definitioninteraction between the body and a system through an external object or device; a kind of embodied interaction emphasizing the role of the device

example

Iterative process of design prototypes which act as playful interfaces for interaction with wireless network infrastructure

APPROACH

Connect or Not

a series of experiments at the interface between wireless communication , people and space

General interaction diagram:

Input: user data on network traffic

Output: movement, light, sound.....

Connect or Not Android app

Connect Or Connect Or NotNot

Live mode

RKNFG, Expand, Explore, ExposeAtelierhaus Salzamt, Linz 2012

Stage Digital I, A Scenographic ExpeditionBühne A, Zurich, November 2012

Quadricone, Les UrbainesLausanne, November 2012

Stage Digital II, The Making of AtmosphereBühne A, Zurich, November 2013

Ljubljana, MMC Zavod K6/4February 2014

Connect or Not – Ljubljana: Interaction Diagram

Lisbon, Instituto Superior TecnicoSeptember 2014

Connect or Not - LisbonInteraction Diagram

Thank you.Selena Savicselena.savic@epfl.ch@jazoza