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Technology at the Edge
Alan DixTalis, University of Birmingham
& Tiree Tech Wave
http://alandix.com/http://tireetechwave.org/
Tiree
Tiree Tech Wave23-27 Oct 2014
University ofBirmingham
Early company in Sem Web (sadly no more )
ongoing network/connectedness ethos
Reading List software over 50% of UK universities+ growing Australia, Nordic, …
Digital Content management & cross-content player
Learning analytics for institution & academic
… and …
http://hcicourse.com/ (now also on interaction-design.org)
today I am not talking about …
• intelligent internet interfaces
• visualisation and sampling
• situated displays, eCampus,small device – large display interactions
• fun and games, virtual crackers,artistic performance, slow time
• physicality and product design
• creativity and Bad Ideas
• modelling dreams and regret
… or even lots of lights
http:/www.hcibook.com/alan/projects/firefly/
… rural connections
Walking Wales
Tiree
Alan Walks Wales
1058 miles (1700km)
3 ½ months
April-July 2013
focus on IT at the margins
vision
personal
encircling, encompassing, pilgrimage, homecoming,
practical
IT for the walker & IT for local communities
philosophical
reflections on walking and space, locality and identity
research
personal agenda and living lablots of
data
at the margins
social marginality:
poor, old, rural
information marginality:
poor connectivity, old devices
IT deepens the divide
... but can IT help in the margins?
community and identity
community and cohesion
abandonment and dissolution:
Rhyl – dustbin of Liverpool
Dee estuary – even the pubs closed
internal strength
Penmaenmawr – in the face of adversity
community enterprise: shops, pubs, arts
language and culture
intimately linkedeven for the non-Welsh speaker!
changed in my lifetime
but under threat again
technological implications
not just translations ... media choice etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capel_Celyn
connectivity
I expected it to be bad ...
but it was worse
... not a recent issue ...
always connected?
mobile signalabsent or weak
broadband ...not so broad
masts point to seanot land ...yachts = money
https://explore.ee.co.uk/coverage-checker
software makes it worse ...
Twitter 140 chars ...
but unusable with poor signalheavy XML API
email slow but works – 1970s technology
Flickr uploader freezes on poor connections
... even in Paris!
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‘localisation’
not just language and culture
software embodies context:
technological and economic assumptions
About Tiree
poor mobilephonecoverage
700 residents20,000 summer visitors
communication for the dispersed
Digitally Open
Tiree Connect
An IodhlannTiree Historical Centre
founded 1992housed in old ‘reading room’
staffed by volunteers and P/T archivist
12,000 catalogued itemsmaps, land records,photos, audio tapes, ...
purpose
– taking the archiveinto the environment
– expanding reach (younger!)
technology:
– HTML5 off-line app
– data driven
celebrating locality
‘On Supply’exploring the connection between existing communities and available renewable energy
post-industrialisationcraft and artisan
http://www.hovisbakery.co.uk
http://artisanbaker.org
the new artisan ...
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:15121
IT in the margins
lessons from each other
Harris Tweedhole in the wallsimple SMS
an old dream ... the electronic village shop
what now?
www.hole-in-the-wall.com