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5 Connected
(D)
Objects
Recipe
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All Ingredients
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To_Accumulate
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To_Care
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To_Freeze
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To_Improve
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To_Multiply
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Additional information about the
5 Connected Objects can be accessed
directly on the research blog
Blueprints, assembly manual and recipes
Cloud of Cards Kit
5 Connected Objects is one of many possible physical
implementations of the Cloud of Cards Processing Library and
exemplifies its use, client side. Linked to the 5 Folders Cloud (both
server and software sides), the five physical objects work exclu-
sively as complements to it and have no independent digital
functions of their own. They seek to offer a form of interface
based on natural gestures (‘clients’ for the cloud) to enable users
to locally access, monitor and manipulate their data or files in the
distant cloud, with a Cloud of Cards twist…
Indeed, the purpose of 5 Connected Objects, which is directly
linked to our design research findings and an ethnographic field
study into the uses of the cloud, is to materialise the ‘ghostly’
presence of a user’s distant data in everyday environments. It also
seeks to embody the ‘digital anxiety’ caused by mishaps that can
happen to personal files and data when dropped into a distant
cloud (fear of losing files, anxiety about deleting versions, sharing
with the wrong people, misunderstandings over access rights,
having private files openly published, undesired updates, hacking,
etc.)
As a consequence, these objects, particularly when they are
physically manipulated, can trigger automated procedures related
to these potential problems…
Project developed
by Lucien Langton (ECAL, Cyberschnaps).
The connected objects were produced in the context of the
Inhabiting and Interfacing the Clouds joint design research project
and are part of the Cloud of Cards kit.
This research project was led by Prof Patrick Keller (ECAL)
and Nicolas Nova (HEAD – Genève).
www.cloudofcards.org
→ 5 Connected Objects, to give a physical presence to five distant digital folders located in the Cloud (the 5 Folders Cloud).
Each one of these objects maintains a special connection and automated behaviours with the files and data to which it is networked.
Each acts as some kind of data controller.
→ To_Accumulate
→ To_Care
→ To_Freeze
→ To_Improve
→ To_Multiply
