Greetings, csforum
It is my pleasure to invite you to the inaugural GroupSense symposium.
This Symposium features a presentation: "Designing Connections" by
Josh On plus discussion and conviviality. It takes place from 5:00 pm
until 7:00 pm on Monday 9 July at the GroupSense office in the Harley
Building (corner of Cambridge Tce and Worcester Blvd). Please bring
refreshments of your choice.
GroupSense will hold a series of these Symposia over time. Their
purpose is to share and develop ideas about the possibilities,
implications and practicalities of participation in groups and
communities online.
It is a treat to have Josh presenting at this Symposium. Josh has been
instrumental in several innovative online participation projects in
London and the US. His demonstration of these will fascinate anyone
interested in the internet as a place for people to be as well as web
developers, designers and innovators.
Below is a description of Josh's presentation and a bit of background
on Josh.
Please RSVP to me.
I look forward to seeing you there!
Dan Randow
Director, GroupSense Ltd
"Every Group Online"
http://www.groupsense.co.nz
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Designing Connections
We email, chat, sms, exchange messages on bulletin boards, and instant
message with each other. All these forms of online communication
provide different ways of interacting with each other, and many have
settled into well established genres. What improvements and variations
might come to these genres? What new formats might be created? No
doubt they will come about through experimentation, some will fail and
others will mutate into successful tools for decision making or
brainstorming, or giving insight into otherwise unnoticed group
dynamics. Today's interaction designer has opportunities to shape
interactions between people. They can choose to create, hide, reveal,
and otherwise shape connections between people online. It is not
always clear what is most appropriate for a certain group. Josh On,
of Futurefarmers, will show some of his experimental interaction
designs created both at Futurefarmers and at the Royal College of Art
in London. He will also try and open a discussion about the types of
interaction that may be possible online in the future.
Josh On went to Canterbury University to study sociology. He then
went on to live and work in Japan and England, where he did his
masters in Computer Related Design at the Royal College of Art. Today
he lives in San Francisco, and works for a small web company called
Futurefarmers. Their website can be found at www.futurefarmers.com.
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