Sharespace and Triptotem: an innovative media sharing system

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Sharespace and Triptoteman innovative media
sharing system

• July 30, 2003

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Project background

• Team of 6 graduate students
• Given the theme of sharing personal media
• 14-week timeframe
• Visionary design project 5-7 years in the future
• Grounded in current technology research trends
• User-centered design process

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What is media?

• Media is a marriage of content and container

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Personal media

• Content and container united in a form that
  carries meaning

Impersonal container, unrelated to content
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Sharing media

• Sharing media is a social act that builds
  connections between people

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Audience group travel
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Problem 1

• Souvenirs on shelves, media in closets

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Problem 2

• Clunky and antisocial methods for sharing travel
  media

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Project Vision

• A system that brings media into the social space
  of group travel and the personal environment of
  the home

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Group travel media cycle proposed system
during trip
post-trip
capture
share
store
remember
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Focus on two products
share
store
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Triptotem

• A small digital storage device with a distinctive
  shape
• Combines physical souvenir with digital media

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Sharespace

• A portable, flexible, touch-screen display
• Allows travelers to organize and share their
  media while traveling

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Sharespace

• Large (30 in / 76 cm) circular format allows
  multiple people to sit around the device

Personal areas
Public area
Group area
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Sharespace personal areas

• Travelers use personal areas to view and organize
  the media in their Triptotem

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Sharespace public area

• Travelers use the central public area to exchange
  media with others and to build collective groups
  of media

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Sharespace group area

• At the center of Sharespace, travelers can place
  media into a group area where its viewable by
  everyone, even passers-by

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Concept scenario

• This scenario follows three scuba divers on a
  trip to Micronesia
• Download the scenario from my website

PC http//www.mildabandon.com/microsoft/scenari
o/Scenario.exe Mac http//www.mildabandon.com/mic
rosoft/scenario/Scenario.zip
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Sharespace and Triptotem

• A system that brings media into the social space
  of group travel and the personal environment of
  the home.

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thank you
http//www.mildabandon.com/work/sharespace.html