SarahKettley

visualising social space  with networked jewellery: 

visualising social space with networked jewellery sarah kettley napier university s.kettley@napier.ac.uk

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minute (around 1 mm3) semiconductor grains sense and compute locally and communicate wirelessly autonomous, with its own captive, renewable energy source programmable computational networks http://www.specknet.org/ background enabling technology

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“workmanship….takes over where design stops” background David Pye (1968) The Nature and Art of Workmanship, The Herbert Press, p62 craft as design methodology

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background two brooches and one pendant, each with ProSpeckzII prototype Speck 8 LEDs two 3V coin cell batteries pendant also has touch sensor basic specification

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background three social distances intimate below 30cm social between 30 and 1 meter distant over 1 meter proxemics

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visual output reflects identity of other individuals met indicates proximity of the encounter lingers after the encounter, leaving a trace background the interaction algorithm

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emerges from a set of relations corresponding to social and productive arrangements geometric and affective aspects geographical distance frequency of interactions the urban personality management of personal space background defining social space

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background making visible social space Regular 1: “Where’s meat and two veg, then?” Publican: “Dunno, mate – should be here by now” Regular 2: “Must be doing a Harry!” (-all laugh-) Regular 1: “Put one in the wood for him, then – and yourself?” Publican: “I’ll have one for Ron, thanks.” Fox, K. (2004) Watching the English, Hodder & Stoughton, p.100

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new forms of behaviour changing roles caring, bullying, supporting etc. self determination vs. group affiliation new social shapes changing social relations within the group as a group in larger situations background making visible social space

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to re-examine the pre-determined user group in light of current issues in market research to map any impact of the jewellery on the social space using social network analysis aims in designing the research

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grounded theory Strauss, A. & Corbin, J. Grounded Theory Methodology. In Denzin, N. & Lincoln, Y. (1994) Handbook of Qualitative Research. London: Sage social network analysis Kilduff, M. & Tsai, W. (2003) Social Networks and Organizations. London: Sage methodologies in designing the research

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grounded theory media of interaction literal media, eg the telephone veiled media, eg consumption patterns types of interaction “conflict, reciprocity and interaction” frequencies of interaction underlying attitudes methodologies data collection & analysis

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social network analysis ucinet methodologies visualisation of results Borgatti, S.P., Everett, M.G. and Freeman, L.C. 2002. Ucinet for Windows: Software for Social Network Analysis. Harvard, MA: Analytic Technologies.

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research clusters PLAN - pervasive, locative arts network Steve Benford, Bill Gaver, Matthew Chalmers, Ben Russell, Drew Hemment INTERROGATING FASHION – emerging digital design & manufacture paradigms Sandy Black, London College of Fashion s.kettley@napier.ac.uk http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~cs179