{"id":4016,"date":"2021-02-09T06:37:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T11:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2021\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2021-02-09T10:17:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:17:31","slug":"assignment-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2021\/4016\/assignment-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 3: Telephone Telematics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Due: Thu, Feb 11, 10:30AM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are still exploring the essence of remote presence and action.  For this exercise, we would like you to experiment with a partner in creating a<em> telematic experience<\/em>.  Afterward, we&#8217;d like you jointly to write a blog post describing and documenting the experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We recommend using smartphones for this exercise on account of their portability and personal nature.  If this is not feasible, then computer-based communication is also workable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Objectives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Use an existing telecommunication system to create a social link between two locations.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prompts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is meant to be a fun creative exercise, so the requirements are open to leave a lot of room for interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some suggested approaches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Ambient, non-directed presence.  Can you identify a context in which passively transmitting and receiving would create a sense of connection?<\/li><li>Tele-action.  Can you choose roles and a task in which one person directs another to accomplish a goal?  Is there a task for which the roles could be symmetric?<\/li><li>Long-duration presence.  Arguably, many people already use text messages to create long-running ever-present conversations.  Can you define a set of rules for when to send or respond which create an awareness without feeling intrusive?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>Video: Zoom, FaceTime, etc.<\/li><li>Text: text messages, email<\/li><li>Tactile: alerts, notifications<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In class Brainstorming: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1bAYx-hqx7ds9sXb2zgK9JEQaQBfPJtSTdb7Qfq2VMfs\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">collaborative brainstorming slideshow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due: Thu, Feb 11, 10:30AM We are still exploring the essence of remote presence and action. For this exercise, we would like you to experiment with a partner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4066,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}