Designing Technologies that Mediate Human Social Interaction: Strategies for Effective Cooperation and Collaboration
From The Theme KNOWLEDGE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IF What if we could develop a theory of “social affordances” (properties of technologies that shape online social interaction, personal judgment, and social decision-making) to better understand and even predict the effects of media design choices on behavior? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to […]
Finding Behavioral and Neural Signatures for Collective Creativity in Groups
From The Theme KNOWLEDGE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IF What if we could identify and measure the brain basis of creativity, and use those insights to foster creativity and productivity in teams, groups and organizations? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to assess the behavioral and neural signatures of creativity. We aimed to […]
Creativity and Culture: Understanding Team Creativity and What Fosters It
From The Theme KNOWLEDGE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY WHAT IF What if we could examine the effect of national culture on creativity? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO Our study was designed to deepen our understanding of the factors that stimulate creativity in different cultures, as well as in cross-cultural teams. Our project explored the relationship between […]
Gestures, Speech and Vision—Towards a Multi-Modal Augmented Reality Human-Robot Interface
From The Theme HUMAN MACHINE INTERACTION AND SENSING WHAT IF? What if humans could communicate with robots through visual and speech interfaces that would produce more natural interactions? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to develop tools that would improve human-robot communication, collaboration and team-work. Specifically, we aimed to augment the STanford […]
Virtual Jurisdictions
From The Theme ADVANCED HUMAN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES WHAT IF? What if we could learn how the use of virtual world technology influences individual communication and interaction, and explore the development of legal regimes to govern virtual communities? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to explore how the physics and community of virtual […]
SPEEDLimits
From The Theme ADVANCED HUMAN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES WHAT IF? What if we could develop new technological solutions for virtual 3D worlds and apply these for high-level cultural programming and education? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to experiment with a new “mixed” reality model of curatorial practice, meshing physical and virtual worlds […]
ShowMeTellMe: Multimodal Learning Experience Mediated by the Future Interactive Paper TextBook
From The Theme ADVANCED HUMAN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES WHAT IF? What if learning materials could support input, feedback and interaction between users – learners, instructors, authors, mentors etc? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO Input, feedback, and interaction among learners, instructors, mentors and authors are key to facilitating questioning and thinking. Using a scenario-based approach, this […]
Interaction Archetypes in Global Teamwork (Arche)
From The Theme CONTEXTUAL FUTURES FOR SMART PERSONAL DEVICES WHAT IF? What if ubiquitous wearable sensors and smart devices could be leveraged to augment global team interaction, improve team dynamics, and unlock new team potential? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We proposed Arche, a concept-proving project aimed at uncovering interaction archetypes in global teamwork […]
Enabling Impromptu Interaction Through a Robotic Water Cooler
From The Theme CONTEXTUAL FUTURES FOR SMART PERSONAL DEVICES WHAT IF? What if we could leverage smart personal devices, and their communicative abilities, to encourage coworkers to interact with each other? WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO We set out to develop a personal, robot interaction platform that, through its movement and behavior, triggers individuals […]