Kasia Witek

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Interaction Over Distance First Iteration

Arduino + 2 lonely chickens = Feeling Presence with light and sound  

Project 2 Social Media project re-visit

My social interaction is about Space and its totality. What makes a space total? When is a space an empty space, non-total? Is there such thing as an empty space?  Is the empty window on a desktop a space or an object? Do objects make the space TOTAL? When does a space become too total… …

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From Nathan ( for Anthony )

Nate asked me to share this with you  

Interaction over distance Pt2 FEELING presence

  We can experience distance through touching, feeling, remembering. We affiliate ppl with certain colors, smells, objects. The future of communication will need to include elements of real personalized touch and feel.

Interaction over distance PT 1 / SEEING PRESENCE ( Feeling Presence is Pt 2 );

Ask anyone, like your parents or maybe your grandparents if your parents happen to be of the “progressive type”  and they will tell you that communication / interaction over distance has gotten wayyyyy much easier. My parents use Skype to talk to their friends in distant lands….My parents don’t really speak English…but they can speak …

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Social Media Project

I changed my project idea. I though further after the “Why the Future doesn’t need us” reading about uncontrolled self-replication and that Self replication equalling total destruction. That brought me to the word TOTAL. The quality or state of being total. Complete, utter, absolute…however, total can also stand for wrecking completely, demolishing. In visual sense, I am …

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forgot the link

Jonah, Here’s that link to the phonebooth project i referred to in the previous post:

Void interaction = if interaction + = media…then ++ ?w!t?f

Been keeping on  wrapping my thoughts around the next assignent.  Im not in the complete clear. I get the social / object component of it… but am not sure about the media component. In the midst of processing it al, I figured I would linke/add a project I made last semester…  I wonder if you …

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Interaction definition

World dictionary defines Interactivity as a “two-way transfer of information between a user and the central point of a communication system, such as a computer or television.” In a nutshell, this “transfer of information” is perceived as a form of a dialogue between a human and a machine. When I think of dialogue, i think …

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