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Supporting Sporadic Community Awareness in Everyday Places. Konstantinos Chorianopoulos Marie Curie Fellow, Faculty of Architecture. Ambient TV. Public space Seamless interactions Group interaction Content sharing Public authoring Shared experience.
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Supporting Sporadic Community Awareness in Everyday Places Konstantinos Chorianopoulos Marie Curie Fellow, Faculty of Architecture
Ambient TV • Public space • Seamless interactions • Group interaction • Content sharing • Public authoring • Shared experience
When digital media become a seamless part of the build environment and everyday life, how do architecture, media studies, HCI complement each other?
communitylocalized mediacommunicationportable technologywireless internet
University of the Aegean • 17 departments • 5 Islands • Different island clusters • Costly and time consuming transportation • Disconnected academic life and multiple identities
Support local communities • Slow-down the shrinkage of population
“No university is an island, and even universities situated on islands need to bear this in mind.”* * Suggestion by the European University Association, Institutional Evaluation Programme at the University of the Aegean, December 2005
MyAegean • An online community portal • Forums • Gallery • Articles • Chat
CELL Connecting Everyday Life in an archipeLago • Communal places • Easy content upload • Content carousel • Interfacing with sensors • Editorial team
http://www.mediacity-project.org k.chorianopoulos @ archit.uni-weimar.de