Datacloud: Expanding the Roles and Locations of Information

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Datacloud Expanding the Roles and Locations
of Information

• Johndan Johnson-Eilola
• Clarkson University
• http//www.clarkson.edu/johndan

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Preview The Sims

• Complex interactions
• Lack of structure
• Variations and plug-ins
• Move toward social

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A Brief History of Interfaces
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Hardwired Learning

• Working/learning outside of system
• Working/learning is social, over time, local
• Computer as simple, isolated tool

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Manual Learning

• External to computer
• Over time
• In distributed, local (usually) contexts

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Online Help 1 (Buried)

• Work/learn move into computer
• Information buried
• Requires separate learning to bootstrap

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Online Help 1 (cont.)
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Online Help 2 (Surfaced)

• Learning/working pushed to surface
• Social aspects disappeared
• Complex situations decontextualized, fragmented

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Online Help 2 (cont.)
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Collaborative (Tunneling Out)

• Integrates collaboration into interface
• Contextualizes working and learning
• Sometimes hard to reconcile training v. education

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Surfacing Reality

• Collapsing distinctions between hyper-realism and
  ubiquitous computing
• Movement across surfaces
• Information work
• Three overlapping areas
• Interface
• Microcontext
• Macrocontext

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Working the Datacloud

• Workspaces supporting information work
• From industrial to corporate
• From production to configuration

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Out of the Interface ProTools

• Interface dense, surfaced
• Breakdown of boundaries to interface (information
  work moves out)

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Out of the Interface Office Space

• Localized, functional spaces
• Work with stuff.
• Spaces connect, overlap
• Information moves from space to space

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The Politics of Space Student Work

• Information struggling to break out of interface
• Routines developed for managing information
• Constraints on environment

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From Modern to Postmodern Architectures

• Attempts at control failing
• Attempts at containment failing
• Move toward postmodern information architecture