Transcript Diapositiva 1

Three thoughts on FI:
1- Embodied social media
2- Ideology of present: is there the past in FI?
3- UCM for Health and for Cultural Heritage
Antonio Camurri (^)
Casa Paganini – InfoMus, DIST, University of Genoa
[email protected]
www.casapaganini.org
www.sameproject.eu
Brussels, 19 January 2010
(^) Thanks to my collegues Donald Glowinski, Alberto Massari and Gualtiero
Volpe for precious discussions.
1. Interaction with content in FI
• Intuitive and natural, deeply integrated with
everyday physical activity: embodied interaction.
• Users interact with content by means of
disappearing systems supporting natural humanto-human communication mechanisms (e.g.,
natural language, gesture), including the subtlest
expressive, emotional, sympathetic aspects of
human physical interaction.
• Non-verbal, including full-body, communication
channels play a paramount role.
Interaction with content in FI:
research challenges
• gaining a deeper understanding and exploitation of
human non-verbal expressive communication
channels,
• developing techniques for analysis and recognition of a
broad range of spontaneous expressive gestures,
nouances, etc.
• developing techniques for analysing the subtlest and
more significant human emotional expressions,
• supporting social interaction: entrainment, empathy,
co-creation, contagion, emotional engagement.
Embodied social media: the social
dimension of interaction (1/2)
• Social networks are mainly based on sharing of static textual
and audiovisual content,
• whereas real-time interaction between users,
immersiveness, and sense of presence and embodiment are
far to be fully reached.
• Mobiles embed growing numbers of sensors and contextaware devices enabling to support full-body physicality and
social interaction. Games follow a similar trend (eg Nintendo
WII, MS Natal project)
• The rapid grow and diffusion of social networks and internet
games bear witness of the importance of the social
dimension of interaction for the future internet and UCM
and, in particular, of the relevance of the emotional and
embodied component of social interaction.
Embodied social media: the social
dimension of interaction (2/2)
• The analysis of non-verbal expressive social
descriptors, like entrainment, empathic
behaviour in a group, co-creation and
contagion, the individuation of leadership and
salience descriptors along the evolution of a
group behaviour, are building bricks
candidate to greatly enhance UCM.
• Toward embodied social networks ?
2. The ideology of present and the risk
to loose past in FI
• Anthropologists (e.g. Marc Augé, "Ou est passe
l'avenir?", 2008) depict visions of the future where
humans will depend on FI in the same way one
depends on her own glasses or hearing-aid.
• The "state of the world" appears to users familiar
at each instant, thanks to the evidence of the
images available from internet, which continuously
recompose time and space.
• ideology of present: a concrete risk that the sense
of past, of history (and therefore the sense of
future) will be lost in FI.
A perspective from anthropology: the
ideology of present
• internet as a non-place, is going to become a
non-time: a user is pushed by huge amounts
of data, all declined at present time, the now:
• A user can read the latest news, knows what her
friends are doing now, she updates her
profile/blog/twitter with what she is doing,
thinking, or listening now. . .
• How to preserve the awareness of past, of
history, and therefore of future?
A perspective from anthropology: the
ideology of present
• In some FI scenarios, the objective is to
support more and more huge quantity of data,
to store exabytes of information in a cloud and
to send data to any user on demand.
• This model is incomplete, oversimplified,
perhaps inadequate.
How to face the ideology of present?
• How to re-appropriate “time”? How to preserve
and be able to understand and exploit data ?
• Possible traces of answers:
– Data as active memory capable to delete
progressively from the past the things which are
duplicate, “noise”, or “poorly relevant”, (decant)
– Data capable to re-shape itself: a sort of “lossy
algorithms” preserve the “essence of the data”,
– capable to “blur the boundaries” to better focus on
the past,
Blur the past to better focus on it
• Novel perspectives for annotating and access audiovisual
content, inspired by theories on human memory, on
attention, on consciousness.
• Emotion, empathy, and social signals associated to A/V
content can contribute to determine its persistence,
relevance, and links.
• To reflect the fact that the digital content is intertwined to
physical body.
• This would contribute to empower users with new tools to
manage awareness and understanding of content.
• In a broader perspective: increase awareness and
participation in our globalization era.
• A crucial issue: how much these mechanisms to determine
the shaping of the “history” are under the control of the
user?
3. Social impact of future UCM:
EU Cultural Heritage
• Improve the awareness and the knowledge in EU citizens of the
rich European cultural heritage
• UCM supporting novel forms of "active fruition" of A/V cultural
content may attract citizens to know unexplored parts of their
culture.
• Active fruition refers here to UCM supporting and enabling
embodiment of A/V content, the possibility to shape the fruition
and the experience of prerecorded A/V content according to
individual and group behaviour, fully exploiting non verbal
components of human behaviour, including emotions and non
verbal social signals.
• www.sameproject.eu on active music listening extended to
active fruition of (EU) cultural heritage
Example of active fruition
The user mimics the gesture to point with a
(virtual) binocular to explore and zoom in
cultural heritage data.
Permanent installation “Viaggiatori di
sguardo”, by Casa Paganini – InfoMus,
DIST Univ of Genoa, for the active fruition of
the UNESCO treasure Palazzi dei Rolli,
Palazzo Ducale, Fondazione della Cultura,
Genoa, Italy.
www.casapaganini.org
Social impact of future UCM:
Independent Living
• Current research on elderly and independent living usually
rely on custom ICT solutions and devices.
• This is a big obstacle to the diffusion of such services.
• UCM embedding novel sensoring, networking, and context
awareness devices can provide an ideal platform to support
crucial tasks in independent living: maintaining social links
(e.g., more effective and engaging remote links with
caregivers, links with elderly sharing the same problems),
monitoring elderly at home, support services on fall
prevention (by monitoring the quality of body movement
while walking and doing normal actions in the home, just
wearing the device), . . .