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-Tactics and Concepts for Highly Mobile People

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• Sharing: Makes it possible to share a media experience together with<br />

others also at Sharing.<br />

• Voice: Adding the possibility to talk together while sharing the media<br />

experience<br />

• Video 1-­‐3: Adds a live video stream of the remote place in different sizes on<br />

the display.<br />

The idea is that the mechanical<br />

movement of the ring calls <strong>for</strong><br />

attention in regards of getting the<br />

remote person to change their status.<br />

The icons are lightened up according<br />

to the level that the experience is<br />

currently at, being the lowest<br />

indicator, as the levels are only<br />

activated when both participants<br />

have passed the current level. It is<br />

also an awareness artifact that<br />

illustrates that there is a connection<br />

with a remote place <strong>and</strong> that<br />

Figure 21: The ball on the table<br />

represents the system of being able<br />

to share a media experience<br />

remotely. The design did not get further than to the conceptual stage, but elements were<br />

used in the next prototype that was designed <strong>for</strong> the same purpose when ALC had<br />

undergone some changes <strong>and</strong> mainly concerned a shared music experience.<br />

6.3.4. My role with the Awareness Ball<br />

I created the design <strong>and</strong> the visualization of the ball. The concept <strong>and</strong> the rules of the<br />

interaction were created collectively with colleges in the research group.

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