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	Creating New Ecology Of Things/NET Project/2009
	The planetary network enabled people to create a whole new culture in the cyberspace. People would often generate new contents and share them with others in the interlinked space. Our group focused on how this cultural phenomenon would shift into the new era of pervasive computing environment. The scenario is based on understanding a designer’s role in shifting paradigms in a world where every objects and space are interlinked to the net cloud through embedded technologies.
	With a vision of creating a system that allows people to have the capabilities to create their own meanings to their surroundings, my team launched a research project which was dubbed NET Creators. New Ecology of Things (NET) Creators Project deals with exploring a future production line that would transform daily objects into an interface that mediates communication. The goal of this research is to find methodologies for allowing people to put new meanings to their everyday belongings by using ubiquitous computing system. The Project focuses on finding new methodologies to transform everyday objects into an instrument that collects and communicates meaningful information. This particular video prototype is based on the idea of sharing notes in a book with other using the embedded technology of the NET system.
	The New Ecology of Things(NET) is an speculative exploration of emerging forms of interactive communication in a world of pervasive networked technologies. Our group had our own interpretation of the NET vision and focused on visualizing a professional world that could be created around this concept. Above is a captured image of one of our prototypes for the NET Creators Project. This particular exploration is based on the idea of sharing notes in a book with others by using the New Ecology Of Things System.
	The bookmark is embedded with a network technology that would capture and upload or share other people's content. Downloaded content could be displayed on any surface of the book that is connected to the pervasive network.

 

	Above is our another exploration from the NET Creators Project, dubbed New Ecology of Cups. We wanted to create a system that enabled people to generate new meanings and collect customized data. Our group decided to change cup as an interface that would display and carry any kind of readable contents from the data cloud. The videos show working prototypes of the project. Our group used weight sensor that would be triggered by the amount of drink that is in the cup. The data would communicate with the computer and display secret contents that is shared with other cup holders.
	The first prototype for this piece had the cup holder as a digital display and user would read magazine contents from it. If they wanted to read more precisely, they would display the article on the table which becomes another interface for viewers. However, we decided that having a cup holder as a disposable/recyclable interface surface might make the project too complicated. Below shows some of the technology that was used for creating the working prototype.