iArtImmersiveEnvironments
Proposals 1

Here is a list of the current possible projects:

LIST

1. Daria Dorosh - Fashion Institute of Technogy - go
2. James Burke's KnowledgeWeb - go
3. Bruce Damer and Atmosphere Projects - go
4. Others - go

 

1. Daria Dorosh - Fashion Institute of Technology

Gallery owner, artist, professor Fashion Institute of Technology who colaborated with us on last years project:

Daria Dorosh Site - Her main site.

AIR NYC Gallery - Her well establish women coop art gallery in NYC.

Proposed Projects - Her proposal to us from last year.

 

2. James Burke's KnowledgeWeb

The KnowledgeWeb system is designed to present knowledge in a highly interconnected, holistic way that allows for an infinite number of paths of exploration between people, places, things, and events.

Could we do a prototype of an advanced UI for the knowledge web project?

Links:

knowledge web main site - www.k-web.org

demo of kweb - http://www.k-web.org/demo/search_form.html

wired article - http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52594,00.html

James Burke & Connections- http://home.earthlink.net/~billotto/Connections.html

Patrick McKercher (manager of the project)

From: BurkeUK@aol.com [mailto:BurkeUK@aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 1:29 AM
To: steve@dipaola.org
Subject: Burke
Dear Steve: We met when you came to Seattle last week and did that boffo demostration for us and the Kweb teacher workshop Pat McKercher organized. I just wanted to say how much I was impressed by your work and hope very much that we can find ways to incorporate some of what you showed in the Kweb. Our main problem at the moment is the interface and I have what I thought were pie-in-sky ideas for it, until I saw what you can do (which blew me away). So I very much hope things work out! Thanks again for coming to show us.

Best regards, James Burke

From K-web news letter:
Seattle meetings: Thursday afternoon, Steve DiPaola of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia gave a demonstration his amazing 3D avatars and Muse 3D software, which could add very compelling visuals to the Knowledge Web interface.

From: Patrick McKercher [mailto:pat13@pacbell.net]
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 5:44 PM
To: Steve Dipaola Subject

Attachments:

UI DOC

UI_Analysis

: Steve, We'd be very excited to have your students work on the Knowledge Web, as up till now we have been concentrating on the backend/database (burkeweb.org).

If students have not seen the Connections series, it's streamed at: http://www.netcast.usf.edu/Public/announce/Education/science_tech_societ y.htm

The best quick overview on functionality (though it is not what we want in terms of look and feel) is the video: http://www.cyburkespace.net/demo/video/kweb.rm (user: demo password: video). I'll attach James' blueprint for the GUI. I have just pinged to see if we can get a demo of the 3d browser, if not the code.

We've been avoiding press after getting swamped w. volunteers after the Wired art'l, but James is doing TechNation on npr when he's here in March (maybe we'll ask for money instead ;), but as we get closer to launch we'll be less shy.

I can imagine a couple of interrelated projects:

1) GUI: 3D version could be mockup or prototype, depending on skillset of students and how fast we can get the code.
2D: this would involve designing ( maybe in Flash ) control devices for input, and perhaps display (or maybe the console could be a skin that overlays TheBrain as output). An example of a time bar i like: http://www.archpark.org.il/index.asp. other major components/devices are the map/globe, list of last 6 places visited (myjourney) . Some of the controls might also be 21/2 D, eg the globe. The nested spheres are also crucial (I'll also attach some design notes on that=UI_analysis).

2) Help Avatar: Bonnie's friends at Haptek did a sort of rough draft of 3D avatar, but the project could emphasize either the look of Av itself or functionality, but the goal of both would be the same: to get more of James' personality and humor into the Kweb. (the Av could also be bluescreen video). He would serve as guide and goad as a user takes a journey (we had thought that we'd make one "predesignated journey" on the KWeb would be a tutorial on how to use the interface, with the Av offering help on that).

3) Immersive Historical recreation/simulation: ideally the user would be involved in a breakthrough by helping a famous person solve a problem (eg Watt did not so much invent the steam engine so much as repair one in such a way as they became practical). The historical person could be played by a person in avatar or a bot. The key would be interactivity; game design might be useful here (scavenger hunts for objects or information, for example). For manipulation of objects, Atmos is clearly better. If students have less programming and modelling skills, Activeworlds in Eduverse has public domain historical architectural elements, historical avatars, and bots that are extremely easy to use.

4) Burke Institute: essentially this would be (in its simplest terms) a 3D web page to orient the public about the Kweb, w/ some interactivity so they could be involved. More ambitiously, it would serve as a collaborative workspace for the internationally dispersed virtual team, perhaps enhanced by Zope based tools (conference room, auditiorium, library, cafe etc). The basic design task would be to create a space that enables community and cooperation.

We could have a live event to showcase work at the end of qtr?
when is end of qtr?
thx! pm

3. Bruce Damer and Atmosphere Projects

Bruce wrote the "Avatars" book, is the "guru" of several worlds ( onlive, active worlds, atmospheres, ...) and runs the Avatars conferences. We could work with him and his companies and organization on several possible ideas. He is very connected to many projects. He also runs the community side of Adobe Atmospheres with his Atmospherians site. He has data come in from the Mars Rover and we can use it to do a project.

Bruces Company, DigitalSpace - http://www.digitalspace.com/index.former.html

Digital Spaces Atmospheres site - http://www.atmospherians.com/

Atmospherians guide to new users - http://www.atmospherians.com/business/start/guide/guide.html

the creative commons - http://www.creativecommons.org/

cyper creative commons - http://www.intercommons.com/

 

4. Other Projects

I'm talking with other folks. Include Adobe Atmospheres group directly. Do you have any ideas or contacts? Send them to me or post them on the Proposal board.