Revolutionary workstations a design prospective 22 oct11

Revolutionary Workstations: A Design Prospective

Joe RaimondoDesign Anticipation

http://www.polyopticon.com

Opening Thought

“…Furthermore, the sources of Black Swans today have multiplied beyond measurability. In the primitive environment they were limited to newly encountered wild animals, new enemies, and abrupt weather changes. These events were repeatable enough for us to have built an innate fear of them. The instinct to make inferences rather quickly, and to “tunnel” (i.e., focus on a small number of sources of uncertainty, or causes of known Black Swans) remains rather ingrained in us. This instinct, in a word, is our predicament.”

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan, p. 61

The Past

“We need a user interface to manage performance across 5

dimensions.”

Try to think in 5 Dimensions.

NOW!

The Past

“We need a user interface that supports a true multi-dimensional approach to enable people’s effort to be captured and processes across dimensions of client work, operations, and for capturing knowledge.”

The Past

We operate multi-dimensionally (in life-x,y,z, and t), but do we think multi-dimensionally?

If we do think multi-dimensionally, then do our information tools reflect this?

Yes and No

The Past

Multi-dimensional Interfaces 1991-present

“It’s a Trap.”

Bridging Past to Present

1st assumption of computing design: ScarcityForce the user to compromise to the device

Batch tasks and processesProcess over UI and UX at all costs

Until very recently, motion, movement and physicality were not considered in computing design

Bridging Past to Present

Important shift: From task processing to Agent DesignCurrent Design model supports isolated, serial tasks then models, renders, and manipulates them in a 2-D field, aka Windows

The WIMP Paradigm cannot transfer to an agent processing

Putting the user in a 4-dimensional field is critical for enabling agent design and processing

“… he’s got the whole world…” Imagine having all the world’s data in your handMany of you do nowBut what can you DO with it, now?

What’s missing?What would it take to build an agent generation and processing system that provided an accurate map of our goings-on and movings-about?

It probably wouldn’t be something you’d build with a 2-D display and a mouse (you can and you do, but it’s hard.)

Living in a design-space

Life really comes at us Poly-dimensionallyDimensions within dimensions—they

become pliable within different contextsHow do we think about designing

devices that reflect this poyldimensionality?

We are shunting our exquisite hunter-gather sensory system down two narrow dimensions

Manipulating the t dimension still escapes current design paradigm

An Agent Design Device

The Revolutionary workstation allows users to pull and push applications in context and in real-time.

Design Point 1: Open system

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEMTG-tCU58&feature=share

Design Point 2: Secure

https://freedomboxfoundation.org/

Other Thoughts?