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February 08, 2005

Reading Response 2

With the exception of the caffeine projects, boundaries were crossed. In the BBC project, users were able to interact from the street, through the window, and with the BBC. With Alzado, blinkenlights, and SimpleTEXT audience members were allowed to participate in a performance. The line between performer and audience was breached with technology.

The caffeine projects were more about distributing information. They differed from traditional internet applications in that they required physical computing to gather data. The information needed was held in the physical world, e.g. how much coffee was available was indicated by the amount of coffee in the pot. Physical computing devices, a video camera for example, were needed to translate this information into electronic form. The internet could then distribute the information.

Posted by rus200 at February 8, 2005 12:50 PM