Category: Research

Susane Seitinger’s research

  • The researcher’s main page
  • LightBridge, May 2011
    • (in Video(youtube), around 4min, she describes the system and mentioned opensource SW to support media facade programming)
  • Liberated pixels :alternative narratives for lighting future cities, 2010
    • PhD Dissertation
    • Light Bodies
      • Susane Seitingerの博士での研究のプロジェクト３つのうちの一つが、ランタン（日本でいえば、夜間の外出時にもちあるいた手持ち提灯）の歴史をふまえた個人用の、センサーによって与えられた刺激に反応する光のオブジェクトでした。クラシックのコンサートやジャズバーで複数を置いて場所の演出に利用した例が論文で示されています。Seitingerの研究のポイントの一つが、既存のインフラから光を自由にするための技術なのですが、ガス灯という形で社会インフラになる前の、個人が小型のランタンを持ち、または玄関前に自分で設置し、管理していた光の集合しかなかった時代の光のありかた
  • Urban Pixels
    • Here (MIT Labcast)she explains basic concept of ‘Urban Pixels’ together with her adviser William Michael
  • Light Body
    • in Shigeru Kobayashi’s ‘Prototyping Lab’, pp20
      • we asked how we might engage people in more actively shaping the lightscapes which surround them.

加藤文俊、慶応SFC

http://www.fklab.net/

http://www.keio-up.co.jp/kup/camp/index.html

加藤文俊研究室の作品は、人びとのコミュニケーション過程を理解するとともに、関係性を可視化する方法を検討します。｜慶應SFC XD展 2011

http://sakainaoki.blogspot.com/2011/04/sfc-xd-2011.html

Liberated Pixels: Alternative Narratives for Lighting Future Cities,Susanne Seitinger, PhD Thesis, 2010

Dissertation Defense
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  • Liberated pixels : alternative narratives for lighting future cities (Read only PDF)
    • http://susanne.media.mit.edu/node/34
    • Citable URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61935
    • Abstract
      • Lighting and illuminated displays shape our relations to urban environments and to one another at night and increasingly during the day by transforming what Kevin Lynch referred to as the “image of the city” (1964). Today, the wide-spread availability of LEDs (light-emitting diodes) in combination with embedded, miniaturized computation offer different ways of designing ambient infrastructures. In this dissertation, I explore these alternatives to exploit the programmable and responsive capabilities of LED-based, low-resolution systems. In short, I examine the alternative aesthetic and communications opportunities afforded by a new generation of lighting and display technologies in the city.I investigate the origins of lighting and displays to illustrate how they have evolved through a complex interleaving of the social and the material. This grounding leads me to develop three design explorations that focus on addressability, mobility and programmability. The first of these explorations, Urban Pixels, presents a wireless network of individual, autonomous physical pixels that can be deployed on any surface in the city. The second, Light Bodies, reconnects with the history of lights-on-people like lanterns that travel through the city with their users. The third, augmented-reality street lighting, provides a layer of programmability for existing infrastructural networks.

        Together the historical perspective and design interventions lead to a performative framework of what I call “liberated pixels”, a new generation of lighting and display technologies. Liberated pixels can be placed flexibly within any context and recruited in different situations for aesthetic and ambient information purposes. This vision captures the contingent and emergent nature of “sociomaterial assemblages” (Suchman 2007) to chart holistic technical, aesthetic, and social directions for future infrastructures of “imageability” (Lynch 1964) in the city.

The Social Life of Wireless Urban Spaces: Internet Use, Social Networks, and the Public Realm, 2010

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2010.01510.x/abstract

This study explores the role of urban public spaces for democratic and social engagement. It examines the impact of wireless Internet use on urban public spaces, Internet users, and others who inhabit these spaces. Through observations of 7 parks, plazas, and markets in 4 North American cities, and surveys of wireless Internet users in those sites, we explore how this new technology is related to processes of social interaction, privatism, and democratic engagement. Findings reveal that Internet use within public spaces affords interactions with existing acquaintances that are more diverse than those associated with mobile phone use. However, the level of colocated social diversity to which Internet users are exposed is less than that of most users of these spaces. Yet, online activities in public spaces do contribute to broader participation in the public sphere. Internet connectivity within public spaces may contribute to higher overall levels of democratic and social engagement than what is afforded by exposure within similar spaces free of Internet connectivity.

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Tweet from Keith N Hampton(@mysocnet) Internet use in public spaces affords more serendipity and interaction than mobile phone use http://bit.ly/bBPSjj 6/7

November 6, 2010 1:57:50 AM
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retweeted by @hrheingold

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Eco-visualization: combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption,ACM Creativity and Cognition,2007

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1254982

Can creative visualizations of real time energy consumption patterns trigger more ecologically responsible behavior? Media art that displays the real time usage of key resources such as electricity offers new strategies to conserve energy in the home and workplace. This paper details the development of a public art project created for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications that measures electricity usage in real time for the purpose of education and curtailment of power usage. A version of this piece will be on view in the exhibition, Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary, a component of the 2007 Creativity and Cognition conference.

7000 Oaks and Counting, Tiffany Holmes,2006-2009

http://tiffanyholmes.com/current-ecoart/7000-oaks-and-counting/

on follwoing paper
http://andrewjohnsonhci.blogspot.com/2010/03/nourishing-ground-for-sustainable-hci.html
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518701.1518763&coll=DL&dl=ACM&CFID=43637906&CFTOKEN=18648348