Tim Kinberg visit

I last met Tim at the last (2009) CHI conference when he was running a workshop. He did some nice work with Alan a few years ago looking at people. 


notes from his talk 


The case for crystalline computing


 -UBbicomp/HCI/CSCW was at HP for a while. Just set up a company
Embedding computing in cities. 
SENSE, 
   - detect
SENSIBILIA,
  - what can be percived 
 Sensibility
  - respond to  


Embed virtuality 
Vast amount of digital signage on it. - Physical, explicit embedding 
Invisible embeded - augmented realist. 


WebSign (2001)- HP. 
Augmented reality  - will it ever work 
Anti-VJ projecting stuff on to buildings. 


Tim is interested in embedding hyper-links into the real world. 


Cooltown - web presence 
Google maps - 'favourate -place' redoing with 2D barcodes
Interacting with links ( remember this, do this, explain link). Ended up having problems with IR, it bounces and diverged. 
Made this work by embedding infrastructure (RFD tag reader) in the work and gave the tag (link) to the readers.


Puazza Mattenotti, Udine tracked people talking on phone ( looks nice)
Then all the stuff about the strange names that 
Technology strategy board - grant  http://www.innovateuk.org/
Krstls - location specific content ( info tied location exclusively ) 
Amscreen 


Crystalline computing is the opposite of cloud computing