Bill Gaver
is a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, London. He gained his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology for work on everyday listening, which he applied in the form of auditory icons for Apple and Xerox EuroPARC. He later became interested in broader issues concerning mediated social behavior, helping develop EuroPARC's Mediaspace, an audio/video communications network, and developing experimental systems that support social activities over a distance. For the last 5 years, he has pursued research as a designer at the RCA, exploring the use of technologies to make aesthetic, social, and cultural interventions. http://www-crd.rca.ac.uk/~bill Ludic Design Possibilities Digital technologies have commonly been applied to work or entertainment. Such uses imply that we either strive to be organized and productive or to turn off our minds with enjoyable, insignificant experiences. Another possibility is captured by the notion of "homo ludens": people defined as playful, curious, and creative. It leads to new views and means of interaction, from the aesthetic to the conceptual. I will give two examples of these new possibilities. The first is from the Presence Project, a 2-year EU-sponsored collaboration to increase the presence of the elderly in their communities. One result was the Projected Reality system, deployed in a housing community in the Netherlands. It allowed people to participate in a network of exaboution that expanded from the private to the public. A second example consists of several concept designs for information appliances-digital devices that elegantly support an integrated cluster of functions, which are not the functions of office or domestic work. Instead, they center on values such as incidental communication, new awareness of oneself and one's environment, love, and spirituality. The values supported by my examples may be unusual, but they have real meaning for many people. Through them, I hope to open a new space for thinking online the roles digital technologies can play in supporting our everyday lives. See schedule.	program BILL BUXTON ANDY CAMERON MATTHEW CHALMERS DANIEL DÖGL BILL GAVER NEIL GERSHENFELD ANDREW GLASSNER PAUL HAEBERLI TOM HEWETT BREWSTER KAHLE PANU KORHONEN DOUG LENAT JO LERNOUT RALPH MERKLE THEODOR H. NELSON CELIA PEARCE MARK PESCE HANI RASHID BILL SCHILIT DAVID SMALL MARCO SUSANI JOHN THACKARA MICHAEL FREEDMAN TURNER WHITTED ANTON ZEILINGER
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