March 2008 Archives
His, Her, His, Her
Mar 31, 2008
Regular shoes and more traditional zouri.
Local Heroes
Mar 31, 2008
A reflection of popular culture seen in the sale of lollies in Izu Koogen above, or in children's face masks for sale in Cairo below.
Urban Annotation
Mar 31, 2008
Texture, Feeling, Technology
Mar 31, 2008
In an otherwise minimalist ryokan, the TV remote stands out both for its complexity, that by default that complexity is not hidden or disguised. It is an accepted and acceptable piece of high technology. Below, a fixed line telephone from the same hotel covered by a cloth, hiding both the object and perhaps lending some of the cloth's textural properties to the object itself.
Diametrically related - the elevation of the telephone in this Delhi home.
Sakura Cam
Mar 31, 2008
Printed web page showing the current state of the soon-to-be-flowering cherry blossom. Whether its surf cams showing the current state of the ocean, to sakura cams making it easier to time your sakura watching. For every culture/sub-culture the range of status information that is tracked.
Household Norms
Mar 30, 2008
The yukakiboo - hot water stirring stick commonly found in Japanese domestic bathrooms.
In a culture where you scrub down before climbing in the bath and one tub of bathwater is good for a whole familiy's worth of sequential bathing, the water re-heating process can result in an uneven temperature - hence the need to stir. Whether you live in a culture with wet rooms - where the whole bathroom is designed to cope with being splashed, dry rooms or indeed you have no-room or water to splash around in.
The psychology of stepping into a bath and feeling the water overflow versus cultures where the aim is to keep the water in the bath. Same question for kids other age groups. And given the intensity and ritualistic nature of the bathing experience on the senses whether and how this affects how we perceive the world?
Open Platforms
Mar 30, 2008
These screens located at the entrance Izu Koogen station show a close circuit TV picture of the train departure times as seen from the station platform, plus ambient data of the platform itself.
For every closed system the interface to something, more, open. The loss of data granularity and for the consumer of that data whether it makes a difference?
Sufficiently Noise Cancelling Headphones
Mar 28, 2008
They don't need charging, require a carrying case, or leave your ear's hot after a long haul. They do cut out most of the ambient flight noise. Yeah they're not perfect - the cable is prone to being snagged on zips and from ears-on experience the more expensive pairs aren't worth the money or last any longer. But they pretty much do the do, and have been part of my hand-luggage only trips for a while now. A more rigarous review here. Product page for the ER6i's here.
Problems of accessories and accessory design in relation to Mobile TV discussed here and nice to see a built-in kick stand on the N96, photos here.
Nobody asked the right question...
Gestures of Silence
Mar 28, 2008
From a Bangkok library above and Darjeeling below. Assumptions about whether the noise comes from humans or technology.
Assumptions from Tokyo Midtown that a dog is both carryable and cageable.
20 x 20, In Print
Mar 27, 2008
Fans of Pecha Kucha will want to sneak a peek at 20 Images x 20 Seconds published by KDa and edited by Tokyo's own Uleshka Asher. For all the digital I still get a buzz from having research material appear in the physical - the book includes a number of photos from the presentation on Cultures of Repair, Innovation (PowerPoint, 2MB).
And if that doesn't grab you, these two Pecha Kucha presentations won't either: The Promise: Lessons For Service Design from the Packaging of Libido Enhancers in China (PowerPoint 3MB) or Exploratory User Research (PowerPoint 3MB).
And on the topic Future Perfect in print Harvard Business Review published a short piece titled Happy MetaData Trails as part of their series of 100 break through ideas for 2008. It's subscription only (what a breakthrough idea), here.
A Shoko, Bathed
Mar 26, 2008
Shoko being the former Aum Supreme Truth Cult leader, Shoko Asahara combined with the very here yet very tired A Bathing Ape logo. For those wanting a some more depth on the latter, Clast has an sorted write up of the evolution of the BAPE brand here.
Mobile Identities
Mar 25, 2008
My colleague and Tokyo design studio neighbour Younghee Jung wrote about the South Korean practice of sticking a mobile phone number to car windshields in the event the car is an obstruction and the owner needs to be contacted. These are not one-off hand-written notes but formal stickers. More on Younghee's site here.
It's an interesting and common example of the trade-off between convenience in this instance mostly for the benefit of others and giving up information that some people consider to be private. But are users really forgoing privacy? To what extent are South Korean consumers likely to own multiple devices, are mobile phone numbers already 'public knowledge' or are they likely to channel more private communication through other means?
The practice points to a newish kind of service - where an identity is specifically set up for communication relating to a particular task or purpose in some cases filtered by intermediaries before being forwarded to you. It's a common enough practice with email accounts but, largely because of one to one relationship between phone and phone number, its less common for mobile phones.
In a future perfect world of ubiquitous location awareness, how likely is it that the future social norm will include revealing some level of the owners current proximity, me here now, writ large on your windshield? And of course in what contexts, with what level of granularity? How does this scenario play out with vehicles with a degree of autonomous mobility - for starters cars that are capable of parking themselves? And given the communication that can happen between vehicles, their owners, their proxies and the urban environment who will offer the future service of calculating your route from A to B and i.e. getting other vehicles to move out the way, all happening prior to you stepping into the car?
Transactions and intermediaries, so yeah what kind of new hustles does it enable?
Sort of related: mobile identities from Ho Chi Minh City, Uganda and beyond and specifically dual SIM card supporting phones and hacks.
Both photos byYounghee.
Behaviours Reflected
Mar 24, 2008
This Akasaka coffee shop includes a row of accessible power sockets (running a long the edge of the window) primarily to support laptop use - though over the course of an hour a number of people charged their phones (yes people here sometimes carry petite phone chargers). Recharging mobile devices in coffee shops is nothing new - but to what extent does the explicit nature of the infrastructure lead to new behaviours? Like? Well, maybe plugging in a printer? Or setting up a server. Or, or...
In some ways customers that don't use the power socket are subsidising those that do - after all they pay a the same for a cup of coffee. Or do power using power-users spend more money either on more items or on items that will last longer? What if the electricity socket was a stand-alone working micro market? As you plug into the socket your devices authenticates itself to the system, negotiates how much power (or fuel-cell fuel) it needs and charges away. As with the explicit presence of the socket to what extent does the explicit presence of a micro-market for power this extend existing behaviours? And given the relaxed ambiance that this coffee shop is trying to create is it desirable to create a market in this context?
Now read the above paragraph replacing the word power socket with bathroom or, or...
Thoughts for today: the extent that transparency of action changes how things are consumed, which in turn speeds up or slows down the consumption process. Like? Sitting in a cafe with a regular ceramic cup versus a take-out paper cup with lid.
This harks back to a piece of research conducted with colleagues Jan Blom, Rosalinde Belzer and Intel's Wendy March, Ken Anderson and Dawn Nafus amongst others, where we considered how public use of technologies such as say laptops or mobile phones change if everyone knows exactly what you're doing. That guy in the corner with the laptop: is he IMing with a loved one? Surfing porn? Or perhaps a bit of both? Does it matter that he plans to leave in five minutes, or that he's going to sit there for hours? And how does transparency (of what aspects) of his use change his relationship with the cafe, the cafe owners, other patrons, you? And in turn how does this affect his patterns of use?
The psychology of the empty coffee cup, indeed.
Redefining Manufacturing
Mar 24, 2008
Wander around a Tokyo neighbourhood and you'll soon come across a small engineering workshop - part of the urban infrastructure and a skill base that enables small scale repair and manufacturing and is very much part of the flavour of living here (and lies in stark contrast to growing up in a we-do-services-not-objects London). But what of manufacturing in the age of cheap electronics, mass personalisation and a shared knowledge? The re-definition of manufacturing discussed in this essay by Julian Bleeker & Nicholas Nova titled What Is Manufacturing in the Era of Design-Art-Technology? including slides here.
Photos: small scale manufacturing in Chongqing China (above) and a reverse engineered mobile phone repair manual - with the latest versions updated over the internet from Accra, Ghana (below).
UI Choices
Mar 24, 2008
On last week's return flight on United - an almost bewildering array of seat adjustment options, though reasonably well clustered.
Super Sex on Pista
Mar 23, 2008
Visitors to Tokyo looking something a little more, shall we say fixed should point their headset in in the direction of Sexon Super Peace a mere 5 minutes grind from Shibuya with a small but Tokyo-tuned line of handmade skull caps, chain protectors and this being Japan, Louis Vuitton handle bars.
And if any of you are in tha' biz, Shingo*420 is on the lookout for foreign distributors, apparently.
A Gulf, Streamed
Mar 22, 2008
A heads-up for readers based in the United Arab Emirates I'll be giving a talk titled Future Connected at the World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship on April 3rd. From the speaker list it looks like a horizon-broadening kind of event. And a full weekend to get sand under finger nails before heading to the Global Philanthropy Forum from April 9 to 11th in Redwood City.
Photo: Air Neon from a hazy late night in Tehran.
Beer Emotions
Mar 20, 2008
Cherry blossom season is almost upon us and with it, an abundance of beer advertising. Poster showing a full range of emotion of an archetypal salariman beer consumer - featuring the actor Nishida Toshiyuki.
For every culture - the body language that passes for full-on satisfaction.
For every product, service, experience - the emotions that define an optimal experience.
Textures of a Era Onsen Hotel
Mar 20, 2008
Bank holiday here in Japan - a good enough reason to escape into the mountains and overnight in an remote town. Wake up in the clouds, the only person in the onsen, spend half an hour listening to rain falling on water steam rising all around.
And the hotels includes layers of history wrapped up in objects.
(New) Ways of Seeing,
Mar 20, 2008
The extent that real time visual information speeds up our ability to appreciate the consequences of actions and bodily re-actions - in this case a stomach's reaction to choking on a tube shoved down a throat. The positive and negative ripple effects.
SuiPo: Proximity Interaction
Mar 20, 2008
The eagle eyed amongst you will have no doubt spotted the SuiPo (Suica Poster) touch point situated to the left and right of this Tokyo Station beer commercial. More here (Japanese only) or ACM members can pull up the CHI'07 paper here.
How does it work? Register your phone/pre-paid travel card with the SuiPo service and win gifts or have vouchers or campaign information sent to your mobile phone. As with all of these services: how do you know what kind of service/reward/... this poster represents? Is it enough to induce interaction the first time? Subsequent times? (And not a million miles from waiting for a car to reboot and wondering what not to touch).
This space becomes far more interesting when the first street hacks appear.
Localisation, Norms
Mar 20, 2008
Localisation is a matter of degrees. But at what point does localisation change the very DNA of the company? And is this a good or a bad thing? And for whom? (think internal resistance to a change in design direction within the company more than anything else).
In Japan this equates to the incumbent - Yahoo and the laggard Google, with the latter now adopting a just launched slightly more portalesque home page here and its equivalent from Korea.
Expectations
Mar 20, 2008
The difference in textures between clean and dirty spaces.
Money, Not a Bank In Sight
Mar 19, 2008
Imagine a world without access to banks and the services they provide - baseline services such as credit, money transfers, savings. For many of the world’s poor this is the everyday reality and it's a space where in part due to the spread of mobile telephony there are disruptions and innovations.
Readers wanting to get up to speed with the current state of mobile payment systems should read Bill Maurer’s summary paper titled Retail Electronic Payments Systems for Value Transfers in the Developing World. Yeah the title's a bit of a mouthful but the paper is concise and dare I say it, entertaining. Download the paper here [PDF, 0.2MB].
I was also recently pointed to a paper titled Payment and Social Ties by Viviana A. Zelizer that gave a lovely account of the use of dance tickets as a form of currency in the 1920’s and 30's dance taxi ballrooms. Women made a living by dancing with paying customers - with one ticket buying one minute or one song of dance floor action - think head-on-shoulder gently-rocking-side-to-side rather than You Got Served. The dance as a unit of currency reminds me of an ad-hoc interview a few months back with an erotic dancer in Uzbekistan - who after trying to unsuccessfully trying to sell a lap dance plonked herself in the seat beside me and over a slow drink, and numerous business related interruptions proceeded to patiently explain the business side of a lap dancing joint - some of which is outlined in this article. To take but one snippet - in the same way that restaurants offer standardised portion sizes lap dancing songs are typically cut to a specific length using WinAmp no less. A memorable evening all in all, not least because of the articulate interviewee and perhaps a topic for another day. But I digress.
The same paper cites Robert Coles discussion with a 17 year old prostitute in The Moral Life of Children talking about how what might appear on the surface to be a single unit of currency can be treated by its owner as 'good or bad depending on how it was earned “I put it in a separate place in my wallet. I don’t let the money touch some of the other money I make”. There’s a tendency for many of today's service designers to treat digital stuff as equal - with systems often making little distinction between say, one photo/contact/message/... and the next. As more of your digital self is carried it's a distinction that will increasingly be drawn into sharp focus.
Photos from our recent field study in Mumbai, the above photo showing a cash register highlights how faith can make its way into everyday processes - the religious icons are touched as part of the flow of every transaction.
Cultural Arbitrage
Mar 18, 2008
Pattern recognition with a given format - URL, phone number, address, QR bar code...; the speed at which domain squatters squat; cultural nuances within a given format e.g. with numbers - the meaning of 666 in western culture or the number 4 in China; the opportunities for cultural arbitrage.
Related: the projection of status through phone numbers in Iran, Mongolia and China.
Groped
Mar 18, 2008
Sexual harassment in public spaces in a sensor rich environment?
Form & Flexibility
Mar 18, 2008
Sports,Tracked by Phone
Mar 17, 2008
Japanese mobile operator KDDI/AU gently stretches, jogs and cycles its way further into the service space with its Smart Sports service - use your mobile phone to track your exercise route, sync your music etc. For most people I'd anticipate it being an aspirational purchase and ends up being used by commuters to count walking-from-the-station-to-the-office calories - not that there's anything wrong with that, eh, Hayashi san.
Punters with an N-Series phone can download the Sports Tracker beta which is well regarded, not that I've personally made the time to use it in anger.
Update: and reader Tom points to the alpha of Zyked (video but not much yet in the way of content).
Photos from Shibuya station - the chap running above no-doubt overwhelmed with his new mobile and taking the posters all to heart.
Form Enablers
Mar 17, 2008
How to avoid drowning the tea-bag, from a back-of Shibuya cafe.
Unintentional Happiness
Mar 16, 2008
Shoe horn hook.
Form, Balance
Mar 16, 2008
Artistic license for the text to run left to right, right to left, top to bottom.
Textures of a Rooftop Batting Range
Mar 16, 2008
From a petite, how-can-they-possibly-stay-in-business batting range on the roof of a Sangenjaya pharmacy.
Local Delivery for Global Organisations
Mar 16, 2008
Second Life
Mar 16, 2008
Worn out baseballs for additional grip.
See also: the second life of tennis balls.
A Nod and a Wink
Mar 15, 2008
After a week of shuttling to meetings in and around Seattle not one taxi receipt signed by a driver. It is in part, an implicit assumption between driver and passenger that you can tip well without incurring a personal cost, and inflate the expense claim later. The less obvious victim in this equation is a passenger that submits an accurate expense claim - knowing that the finance department knows how easy it is to fiddle this kind of expense, and feeling guilty by association.
The practice of giving blank receipts, widespread enabler of everyday corruption.
Flavours Enhanced
Mar 15, 2008
The extent that consumption of media, food, ... tastes better the closer it's perceived to be to the original source.
The potential disruption to this equation from increasingly being able to trace objects to their source; whether and how this affects the production process; and the tricks adopted by producers to skew location information. For news aggregation sites - the degree to which the sort order of headlines is affected by the proximity of the news gathering source to a news.
Punctuation by Infrastructure
Mar 15, 2008
Similar to this.
A Wet Awakening
Mar 14, 2008
A communal umbrella (below) to shelter pedestrians needing to make the short walk between a parking lot and Microsoft‘s Building 99 (left and right in the photo above). The odds are stacked against a system of shared umbrellas working: as an object of value the umbrella is likely to be stolen; the general direction of morning and evening pedestrian traffic the umbrellas are quickly likely to end up on the ‘wrong’ side of the walkway; people forget to place the umbrella in the opposing bin - particularly in heavy rain; and not least visitors to Microsoft want a memento to take home.
Assuming that supplying umbrellas is necessary, one simple solution is to adapt the umbrellas in such as way as to make them less desirable to steal - for example attaching a noticeable weight to the handle - a practice commonly adopted by hotels to remind guests to drop the key at reception on the way out; another partial solution is to turn it into an advertising opportunity to sell umbrellas out of a vending machine in lobby of Building 99 - visitors want souvenirs. Or they could head down to SeaTac lost and found and offer to take bundles of umbrellas off their hands. Personally, I'd just stick a massive 'RECYCLE YOUR UMBRELLAS' sticker on each of the bins and see what happens. Research lite.
It's a similar problem is the Japanese practice of using yellow flags to wave school children across the road.
For attendees of last week’s Microsoft presentation the slides can be found here [PowerPoint, 4MB] and thanks to Kentaro Toyama of Microsoft Research's Technology for Emerging Markets group for hosting. Related research as always here.
Goes to Stream
Mar 14, 2008
Payments Outside the (Regulated) Norm
Mar 14, 2008
Taxi fuel surcharge tacked to the visor of this Seattle taxi - adding a $1 to the price of every journey.
The authority that regulates taxi fares; the speed at which that authority can adjust prices, and the likelihood of the need to adjust prices; the cultural and contextual differences in price volatility; the medium through which the fare adjustment is communicated to the passenger, including the authority by which those changes are made.
And in a world of truly ubiquitous personal communication devices, the ability of both passenger and driver to draw on real time price information. The ways in which forced price transparency of fuel and other raw materials encourages and discourages use of a service. Advantages and disadvantages of say, the cost of a taxi fare priced at oil prices at the start of the journey, or when the petrol tank was last filled. And to flip it: how to identify customers in real time that are willing to pay more.
Medium, Messages
Mar 13, 2008
Conscious, Explicit
Mar 13, 2008
The Seattle Metro signage nudging passengers to cover drinks and wear headphones, the latter presumably to counter the practice of mobile boom boxing.
Related: golf swings in a Daikanyama park.
Ring Cycle
Mar 13, 2008
There's a point in the permaphuck cycle of waking up at midnight (hola two hours sleep), by 6am being on the tail end of chirpy and knowing the working day proper is about to begin. Upside? There isn't one.
A Sticker Escapes
Mar 13, 2008
Visual Resistance
Mar 13, 2008
Unusual (by international norms) line weight for pedestrian crossings in downtown Seattle. The affect (or otherwise) of having relatively thin lines on the speed of vehicles, pedestrians.
As a comparison from Chengdu, Tokyo, below.
Digital > Tangible
Mar 13, 2008
Poster from the window of Walgreen's pharmacy.
Monday Commute
Mar 10, 2008
Heading to the Evergreen State today - a chance to put names to faces and research at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. See you on the other side.
Hearts, Minds, Wallets
Mar 09, 2008
In the battle for a presence in your wallet this prepaid card does well by maintaining an ultra-slimmed down credit card form factor. 4,000 Yen (about 25 Euro) buys you 10+1 entries into the Daikanyama pool with the amount of credit remaining is printed on the front on the card after each transaction. Japanese swimming pools have their own unique culture ranging from walking lanes to everyone-out-of-the-pool for whilst we check for floating bodies and submerged body parts, to the changing-of-the-(life)-guard. Visitors to Tokyo with a desire to shake off a bad dose of long-haul should head over to Daikanyama Pool - a mere five minutes walk from the eponymous station, fifteen minutes walk from Shibuya. Map here. It's less tourist destination than sento but a subtly nuanced slice of everyday Tokyo life.
Zero Dead / Two Twenty One Injured
Mar 09, 2008
The number of deaths and injuries today/yesterday on Tokyo's roads - commonly found posted outside koban - the community police boxes.
The Business of Convenience
Mar 09, 2008
Continuing along the lines of the infrastructure and services you can take for granted - this AM/PM convenience stores has started offering regular clothes washing services. Not high value dry cleaning but washing.
I have no idea whether as a service it is profitable. Given that most Tokyo homes have a washing machine - what makes a clothes washing service (potentially) viable in the context of urban Tokyo?: the frequency and urgency and lack of desire to do the laundry; the prevalence of sole occupancy apartments, a distinct lack of servants, family members who the task can be delegated to; the likelihood of having a clothes dryer in the home; the time it takes to wash and hang clothes; the space to hang clothes - clothes horses are an almost permanent feature of apartments and there's often not enough room to swing a 9 iron; that items left on the balcony may be dirtied by pollution - Tokyo has major motorways running through the city; the proximity of and already frequent visits to the convenience store itself.
And on the downside: a person's willingness to carry laundry to a nearby store; cost; the social interaction of handing such a personal item to the store clerk yeah, they're likely to be not out back sorting the whites clothes from the coloured laughing at the stains on your smalls, but trust is an issue; not being able to retrieve items from the laundry bin to wear one more time.
Return to Sender / Guaranteed
Mar 09, 2008
A single glove bagged and posted to this Shimo Kitazawa wall. As with bags used to advertise the availability of labour and skills in Urumqi how to know whether an object is deliberately discarded, placed or accidentally lost?
An object + a recognised owner + the ability of that object to negotiate its way home = objects that come with with 'return to sender' guarantee.
Yeah, how to know whether an object is deliberately discarded or accidentally lost?
Note, Not Bikes
Mar 09, 2008
I *Heart* Abstractions
Mar 09, 2008
Personal Chaperone
Mar 09, 2008
The positioning of an open clamshell phone to support the status-checking of incoming communication and (more for women then for men) sending a social signal of: being engaged to remote others; wanting to be less engaged with people in close proximity.
From an Akasaka cafe.
Personal Supply Chains / Trust
Mar 08, 2008
The black cat logo of the Kuro Neko Yamato delivery company. A compelling feature of their service is the ability to drop off and pick up packages from your local convenience store and change the delivery destination through your mobile, conveniences indeed. The service is popular amongst snowboarders and golfers - 3,780 Yen (24 Euro) to have your gear magically appear in the hotel boot room as your arrive and re-appear on your doorstep the day after you return.
As the relationship between people & people & things becomes more transparent, and the tools to maintain location awareness more prevalent - is there more or less scope for a social delivery service? The neighbourly equivalent to the Japanese convenience store? And in what contexts? Do you want your neighbours handling your parcel before you do?
Sus.ta.in.able
Mar 07, 2008
A paper by Elaine Huang of Motorola Labs and Khai N. Truong of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto on Breaking the Disposable Technology Paradigm: Opportunities for Sustainable Interaction Design for Mobile Phones probes people's replacement and disposal strategies. It's geared towards an academic audience, download here [1MB, PDF].
Photo above of the Remade concept nicked from Raphael here - posted here because most of previous photos or the movie of the concept didn't show it working. No there was no network coverage when the photo was taken. Yeah, it works.
Bits, Bytes, Teeth
Mar 07, 2008
Local Sangenjaya dentist chair now includes a retrofitted flat screen TV (below) used for showing DVDs to fearful punters (Wallace & Gromit on heavy rotation since you ask) and is used to display x-rays shortly after they are taken. How long before visual dental record data such as x-rays can be digitally picked up by customers on the way out? Or simply forwarded to your secure home account? Along the lines of the near field communications.
And given our very-human penchant for losing things how long before data ends up in the 'wrong' hands.
Wrappers, Containers, Rituals
Mar 07, 2008
Tape, extolling the value of fresh vegetables wrapped around a bunch of bananas.
Whilst the tape does an admirable job of keeping the bananas bunched how likely are they to unbunch on their own accord? What does it say about how fruit is presented and sold - in bundles rather than by weight? In a culture with a higher risk of theft the reinforced bunching might make them harder to steal - but its a low likelihood here.
From a consumer perspective the tape introduces scissors into the unpack-everything-in-the-kitchen ritual, something that is mentally at odds with nature's bounty.
Related: packaging norms from around the world.
Sten.ci.l
Mar 07, 2008
Public, Private, Personal
Mar 06, 2008
The practice of wandering through a neighbourhood - in this case Tokyo's Shimo Kitazawa en mass and picking up litter. Common enough in Japan, sometimes spotted as part of sponsor-a-highway campaigns in the US.
Of note in this context: it's a Sunday and the neighbourhood is roughly equivalent to the Camden Town, Williamsburg or Prenzlaurberg - studenty-trendy give or take; the group are in their early 20's - at an age when peer group affiliation and appearance is at the fore; they are wearing uniforms; the task they are engaged is non-glamorous and benefits the community. Welcome to the social.
A Light Extinguished
Mar 06, 2008
Ta UB & RB.
Lead Use Case
Mar 06, 2008
A Body of Language
Mar 05, 2008
A Japanese phone user (in the shadows, center) conducts a call facing the wall - the body language of making a phone call.
Service Pollination Opportunities
Mar 05, 2008
Shoe formation from a classroom's worth of pupils taking off their slippers at the entrance to the room. The importance, or otherwise of wearing the 'right' slippers on the way out - slippers are numbered but are otherwise identical. In a sensor-rich-everything-tracked world the opportunities for service discovery or service pollination by wearing someone else's footwear. From the Niseko Park Hotel, Hokkaido.
Related: behaviours related to clean and dirty spaces, shoes.
Elevated, Abstracted UI
Mar 05, 2008
Size, Colour, Density
Mar 04, 2008
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