CONFERENCE: LIFT 2007 DATE: February 9 2007 LOCATION: CIGC Geneva -- REAL-TIME NOTES / ANNOTATIONS OF THE PAPER: JAEWOONG LEE Collective Intelligence and Collaborative Creativity: What do we need more? CEO DAUM / Lycos - http://www.daum.net/ He starte describing how the human brain works. In itself each neuron does a very simple thing but all together they do something great. In the same way we think we should look at methods for building services that resemple this model. User Generated Content Maybe we have to worry about global warming on the internet because the long tails is in fact just garbage. User Generated Content which is poorly constructed and that creates pollution in the search indexes without any utility. Maybe we need intelligent layers to aggregate content depending on the user needs. Maybe we need a community gardener, some people responsible to take care of the virtual side of the community. Maybe we can use the collective intelligence of group / collaborative filtering. Examples: Lycos MIX, Daum Cafˇ. PANEL The New Ecomony of Creation MagnaTune is a good example of a business model for selling musing which is a fair trade. They let you listen the music for free and they ask you to pay, and to propose the price, only for the things you want to buy. 50% goes to the artist. vpod.tv Rodrigo Sepulveda 2006 was a huge burst for TV channels. we are changing the paradigm to use media. There is a Time shifting, a Device shifting, a Place shifting. vpod is a service helping people to get build their own tv channel. One of the solution should be to make it easy to move from non-commercial use to commercial use of the content. Patrick Chapatte - http://www.globecartoon.com/ DANNIE JOST Knowledge What binds information and knowledge is cognition. Who invented culture? "... culture should be regarded as the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features of society or a social group, and that it encompasses, in addition to art and literature, lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs". UNESCO. 2002. [1] Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity. colture is the cohesive expression of social human behavior. ab initio - nonlinearity http://uncondition.blogspot.com/ http://tensoriana.org/about/ ALEXANDRE SCHAAD JEAN-FRANCIS BALAGUER Understanding users, their needs, and their motications http://icrc.org Who is online today on ICRC.org? -> online questionnaire Perform a qualitative audience analysis -> what are the users needs 80% of their user had shared or internet access at work. Main interaction scenario -> they tried to identify the main scenarios applied by users to fulfill their information needs in the context of their daily work activities. aschaad@icrc.org The study showed that users coming from different cultures have different needs and perception of the web site. One of the most important barrier is the language and the localization was a key factor of the redisign. CLARK ELLIOTT Work Environments for the Knowledge Age. http://www.clarkelliottconsulting.com/ Engaging people with new ways of working is not easy. Instead if a fixed design, he proposes an activity-based design. The activity zones are the mix and match of activity to give people the choice on what they want to do and how they want to do it. Connect people and they will exchange ideas. The trend is to move work in open spaces. To move people to unassigned workplaces. elliott@cbre.org FABIEN GIRARDIN Embracing the real world messiness There is a vision in ubiquitous computing that everything needs to be seamless, that has to disappear, that needs to become calm. We see many examples of bad interaction design. The wold is messy. We rely on infrastructure but infrastructure can break down. Another aspect is heterogeneity: it very difficult to come out with standards. We are building a tower of babel of technologies that are often in competition. Ownership is also a problem. Uncertainty: inaccuracy of physical sensing and the ambiguity of references. Complex and synamic problem. The point is to use a seamful design: revealing the "seams" (limits, boundaries, uncertainty). Know when to reveal or hide the imperfaction of the system. We need to design for appropriation -> co-evolution with technologies is about accomodation and appropriation. We play with noise and disorder. It is what allows us to be in command. PANEL Dealing with Technological Overload Fred Mast Nada Kakabadse Stefana Broadbent Companies offers mobile technologies to employee so that they can work everywhere. The side effects of technology is that becomes more and more difficult to deparate the private life from the work life. Checking the email over the email is not a problem, but having the expectations of being so might be a problem. Stafana: what we see is that more and more there is an invasion of the private life in the work time. What we are seeing is that the social network is part of the daily activity. Nada: we are seeing a change a shift in the workplace. There are more and more sick people for technological addictions. They are suffering for information overload. There are lots of examples from the room of people addicted. Addiction might mean waking up at night to check the email. Anther problem is that there is a mixture of aims in the technological means. We might be forced to used it for work but we also love it to use it for private/fun application. Stefana: there is a perception of value in the fact that we can mix private and work life. There is an increase of the written channel of communication and not so much in the voice channels. That's because text allow more easily to multitask. Fred: there are some studies that shows that doing this intensive multitasking can increase our cognitive capacities. One of the question is: can we monotask? Stefana: we used also diaries to understand how people communicate. The channels that are being use allows people to keep more contacts than in the past. The kind of communications that we have is more shallow but the frequence is changed. Bruno Giussani: maybe we should talk about social network dependance more that technological dependance. Stefana: I am against the idea of umplugging. This conference is about social intelligence, which is the consequence of "the flow". Nada: it is up to us to structure our life in such a way to prevent burning out. We are missing the concept of "quality time". Giving somebody else quality time. PANEL The User/Citizen Centered Society Robert Scooble Dominique Foray Thierry Crouzet Robert: User Generated Content is now accepted in mainstreem media. The word of mouth is a great power. Everybody in this room has the ability to use this new media. When I was at Microsoft I was able to report things to the outside workd for the first time. Now I am outside and I need to convince companies that is good to leak some insight about what they do. Thierry Crouzet: Politicians in France do not understand bloggers and they are affreid of them. The think top-down while the network is bottom-up. http://blog.tcrouzet.com Thierry shows that the rise of TV political campain the more people do not participate in the elections. On the contrary the more Internet campains for the elections the more participation. With the new technology it's easier and easier for people to participate in the political elections. More web 2.0 = more condidates = more democracy. DEREK POWAZEK Founder JPG magazine http://www.jpgmag.com JPG is the first truly community generated magazine. There is a huge community of writers that contribute to the articles and there is a huge community of voters which contributes to rate the content. Media should be incredibly participatory. You give an opportunity to the participant to participate. We call this design for selfishnes. We want to listen to authentic voices. Robert: the internet give us the possibility to reduce the distance between the authors and the audience. There will always be a market for professionals but there are going to be other business for the long tail to have opportunities. http://ThinkStudio.com BRIAN COX CERN's 27Km Big Bang Machine The Large Hadron Collider project will help us answer basic question of physics: the origin of the masses of the fundamental particles. The project shows also that most of the technologies built for this end will give a huge returnment of investments. For instance a computing grid. DANIEL KAPLAN dkaplan@fing.org - http://lift07infrench.wordpress.com/ What we are doing is going to have a real consequence in the real world. Our opinions are going to affect other thinkers. We are giving money to optimize, to economise, etc. but look at big corporations. We are using technology to using more disorder more entropy in our world. Assertive technology: we need seamless technologies. Technologies of identity. What missed at lift what a more real vision of the world. We are describing only one aspect of reality. Transparency? Self-organizing? Self-evolving? I do not think so. There are things that we need to reintroduce in our thinking: politics, power, borders, conflict. Fluid circulation of ideas is not going to stop this. Did we foreseen the extintion of large corporations? I do not think so. Another word that is missing is: FUN! DECEPTION! There is a huge coregraphy of ways people are disconnected. The fact that little people with little capitals can turn themselves into something powerful, inexpected, etc., is an agent of change but it might be also a factor that might stop change. 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