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January 30, 2006

Calm Technology, Xport　01.26.06

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  • My ass is in traffic radio show, a community, disperse information in real-time

    Calm tech, with the abundance of info, computers, gadgets and peripherals that are widely available today, it has to be a form of passive technology.

  • Indoor, inner office windows: we keep the outside in mind, but this does not require any kind of technology
  • emails: non calm tech, when we get notified of our messages, the application switch within the computer is almost disruptive. expensive contact switch
  • predicitive tech, sensory tech
  • different levels, ways to contact people?
  • sender, receipient (person specific) the tech needs to be smart.
  • Major contact switch: switching from one app to another. disruptive to the primary task
  • personalization of the networked objects is a must. give this option and preferences
  • smart homes? Ex. SongDoCity, Ubiquitous City, Korea
  • presupposing certain things depending on the audience and user
  • visual and audio cues
  • are the users going to become familar?
  • basic expert modes: machine knowing what the user exactly wants
  • smart apps that konw how you use it and adapts accordingly

    OSI [Open Systems Interconnections Model]

    More info in this link.

    7 layers

  • physical: the medium when it happens. ex. ethernet
  • datalink: what is going across this hardware. ex. bits, electrons
  • network: how things are moved about. ex protocols, IP addresses
  • transport: way of how things move about. ex. TCP/IP, UDP for us, quicker than TCP (info moves faster but we cannot see if it's been received)
  • session: type of connection ex. ftp
  • presentation
  • application

    Any of these layers can be removed and won't affect the other layers below it.

    Control Issues in Networks

  • immediacy: needs to be considered in networks, delays etc, communication between two objects, worldwide/locally
  • information formatting: talking to a remote server when I have no control over it on the other end, need to consider errors, systems etc, in case of failures

    Xport, the communication
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    Posted by min at January 30, 2006 01:17 PM

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