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06-21-2006, 11:30 PM
What happens when someone using a new technology finds it to be so enticing that they feel compelled to indulge to an excessive degree, disrupting their lives and fracturing relationships?
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Design For the Computer Obsessive (http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/people/alumni/04-06/joe-malia/projects/project1.html), a project by Joe Malia (http://www.joemalia.com/) graduating student in Interaction Design (http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/)at the Royal College of Art (http://www.rca.ac.uk/) in London, centers on the role design can play in guiding these individuals through their turbulent affair with the technology.
For example, Private Public (http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/people/alumni/04-06/joe-malia/projects/project3.html) is a series of objects that highlight the privacy we sacrifice when using mobile technological devices in public spaces.
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/yyy/09devic.jpg
By wearing the mobile phone scarf, you can venture into public spaces confident that if the need to compose a private text message were to arise the object could be pulled over the face to create an isolated environment.
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/yyy/34psp.jpg
Meanwhile, devoted PSP players can explore their passion in complete privacy (though i can't garantee they'll be unnoticed) by using a similar model specifically designed for the gaming console.
See also: Crispin Jones's Electrophile (http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/008476.php), Christain Palino's Peripheral Needs (http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/005832.php).
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/yyy/12oitgy.jpg
Design For the Computer Obsessive (http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/people/alumni/04-06/joe-malia/projects/project1.html), a project by Joe Malia (http://www.joemalia.com/) graduating student in Interaction Design (http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/)at the Royal College of Art (http://www.rca.ac.uk/) in London, centers on the role design can play in guiding these individuals through their turbulent affair with the technology.
For example, Private Public (http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/people/alumni/04-06/joe-malia/projects/project3.html) is a series of objects that highlight the privacy we sacrifice when using mobile technological devices in public spaces.
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/yyy/09devic.jpg
By wearing the mobile phone scarf, you can venture into public spaces confident that if the need to compose a private text message were to arise the object could be pulled over the face to create an isolated environment.
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/yyy/34psp.jpg
Meanwhile, devoted PSP players can explore their passion in complete privacy (though i can't garantee they'll be unnoticed) by using a similar model specifically designed for the gaming console.
See also: Crispin Jones's Electrophile (http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/008476.php), Christain Palino's Peripheral Needs (http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/005832.php).