2014年1月13日 星期一

批判互動設計作業05 / B9934001 林季樺

Coworking space has now become a fashion. There’s no wonder why so many of which spring up in cities around the world. Despite the prosperous scene of coworking spaces, there’s still some problems faced and needed to be carefully tackled.
For all kinds of people crowding in coworking space, it’s far from easy to find an efficient way to arouse and to accelerate cross- pollination of skills and creativity. But with Gelatine, a system which combines check-in function by use of RFID technology and a trigger to facilitate more social interaction taking place around, things seem much easier. Upon checking in, one random user profile will be presented as a ticket by a thermal printer, and the Gelatine screen will then display some basic information like skills, areas of interests, and needs of a collection of currently co-present users sorted by collaboration opportunities. With the aid of these two, in accordance to the study mentioned on the project page, Gelatine does work. It amplifies awareness of each other among users, and thus facilitates their collaboration.

Process
As information provided by the researchers of Gelatine is detailed enough that other interaction design researchers could follow all the process and thus reproduce.

Invention
Despite no huge invention taking place in this project, the resulted integration of existing technology does lead to a significant advancement. This prototype provides a guidance on how to communicate between space and peers, and peer to peer in coworking space.

Relevance
The preferred state Gelatine aims to achieve is to amplify the relationship between peers and between peer and space to accelerate interdisciplinary collaboration and creativity. This is no doubt relevant to the property of coworking space, whose shared values, to sum up, is collaboration and inspiration.

Extensibility
The shared values of coworking space could be applied to a bunch of different places for these values are shared even outside the coworking space. Thus, it’s no deny that the extensibility of Gelatine, to some extent, is never the case of narrow border. Such device could be also applied to places as enterprises of all kinds, and schools.

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