Human Born Cyborg Discussion Points 0-2 part 2

As written by Tuong

• Heavy metal

• what was the strict antithesis of Weiser's vision of ubiquitous computing.
• two types of technology: transparent technologies, opaque technologies what are they?
• transparent technologies: technology that is so well fitted to, and intergrated with, our own lives, biological capacities, and projects as to become almost invisible to use.
• opaque technologies: keeps tripping the user up, requires skills and capacities that do not come naturally to the biological organism, and thus remains the focus of attention even during routine problem-solving activity
• training for technology to become transparent?
• Transparent Tools
• who is Donald Norman?
• guru of of the age of information technology
• what is the problem with technology-centered products
• Smart Worlds
• information appliances are characterized by three central features:
• An information appliance is geared to support a specific activity, and to do so via the storage, reception, processing, and transmission of information. 
• Information appliances form an intercommunicating web. They can “talk” to each other. 
• Information appliances are transparent technologies, designed to be easy to use, and to fade into the background. They are poised to be taken for granted
• Weiser vision of home and work compare to Norman.
• Weiser is more fill with small, intercommunicating, unobtrusive intelligent devices was a vision of a world of such appliances
• Norman is more restricted, less futuristic.
• The web include a varied and mutually empowering matrix of what?
• human-centered technologies
• why do you need an even-richer web of support
• what is a wearable computer. 
• an information-processing tool that is a deep but non invasive sense, integral to the user
• human-centered technology
• what is Bradley Rhodes's wearable remembrance agent?
• a continuously running proactive memory aid
• what is an example of tangible computing?
• Marble answering machine by Durrell Bishop, at London Royal Collage of Art
• MIT Media Lab has a group called The Tangible Media Group and what vision do they wish to pursue
• embodied digitally
• augmented reality who used this term first?
• a group of Boeing engineers and scientists in the early 1990s
• how was augmented reality used?
• University of Central Florida used LEDs (liquid Electronic Displays) to see how the bones move while the women were walking.
• Mike Scaife
• worked as part of a multi-univeristy interdisciplinary research colaboartion helped design a mixed reality adventure game called hunting the Snark.
• Moving On
• how will the difference between the two vision show?
• if the information appliances will be designed to remain firmly out of sight and out of mind.