Anne Hong
Hypershelf: Linking books
Network the books with a shelf, allowing the user to experience viscerally the book, and its connections. Bridge the digital and physical spaces of the library.
http://annehong.com/itp/thesis/synopsis.htm
Hypershelf is a modular shelving system that demonstrates tagging books. The first scenario uses the library card. At the end of each stack, there will be an RFID reader. Books related to the search will be saved on a library card, which is also an RFID tag. When the user approaches the stack, he/she will scan their library card on the reader, and the books that are saved will light up (momentarily) and fade out over time (10 or 15 minutes). If another user shows up and scans their library card, their books will also light up, but their light signals are brighter to indicate that they are the most current searches. If there are two people in the same stack, perhaps Hypershelf will encourage discourse between the two.
The second scenario will demonstrate a localized search. When a user takes a book off the shelf, books that are connected to it will light up, and the more relevant books to a user's specific search will light brighter. I have researched how Google's search terms for scanned books, and will translate the most useful in a physical interaction. For instance, in Google's digital interface, the keyword is highlighted throughout the scanned pages of the book. In this physical prototype, the shelf will filter the most relevant book according to number of keywords. For instance, if I was looking for a book about Williamsburg, I would go to that section of the library, and all the books about Williamsburg will light up, but the most relevant book will light up brighter than the others because it will search in the database for the number of keywords. Other filters I am researching are citations (author's recommendations), frequency of a book taken off the shelf, frequency of books checked out, topics, and expert-related filters.
Last semester, I took some classes regarding networks, and decided to create two projects that utilize the shelf (Smart Shelf, and Storyteller). I learned about the limitations of network technologies. I was also interested in how people organized their shelves, and wanted to see if I could create a system for a library because of the challenge of dealing with scale. I am interested in designing tactile media that do not utilize screens (which was a huge design constraint). I wanted to build a system that would reveal new information about the book (e.g. other disciplines, relevancy), and could be used with the existing practice (library space).
Clay Shirky, \"Ontology is Overrated\"
Hassan Masum and Yi-Cheng Zhang, \"Manifesto for the Reputation Society\"
Michel Foucault
Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller, \"Design, Writing and Research\"
Ben Rubin, \"Checked Out\"
Spalding, Tim, \" When tags work and when they don\'t: Amazon and LibraryThing\"
Lee, Morgan, \"Subway books give Mexico a novel way to fight crime\", [World Changing]
Google Book Search
Toobin, Jeffrey, \"Google’s Moon Shot\"
Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, \"The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine\"
Taylor, Arlene G., \"Wynar\'s Introduction to Cataloging and Classification (Ninth Edition, 2000)\"
Wellisch, Hans, \"Indexing from A to Z (Second Edition)\"
IDEO, \"Extra Spatial\"
Perugini, Saverio; Goncalves, Marcos Andre; Fox, Edward A., \"A Connection-Centric Survey of Recommender Systems Research\"
Patrons of the public library, librarians, anyone using the Dewey Decimal and LCC classifications for doing a search, researchers, students, scientists
Searching for a book that crosses two or more disciplines. Maybe one example is that the user is doing a paper on solar systems, and specifically the sun. The most relevant book according to the number of keywords will be indicated by the brightness of the light on the shelf or the frequency it was taken off the shelf. The information will scrape through Google\'s book site. The second scenario may show multiple disciplines of a book (e.g. Walker Evan\'s book on Cuba), or its citations. Should it be in the history, art or literature section? The color of the shelf will change accordingly.
Plexiglas for the first working prototype, although I did research and this shelf can be made with conductive film laminated between two pieces of glass. There are surface mount LED lights, RFID reader, RFID tags, and sensors.
The most enlightening discovery was my research at Material Connexion. Although, I could not obtain the conductive film material, I figured out how this material could be used in between planes of glass without showing wires.
The second scenario will demonstrate a localized search. When a user takes a book off the shelf, books that are connected to it will light up, and the more relevant books to a user's specific search will light brighter. I have researched how Google's search terms for scanned books, and will translate the most useful in a physical interaction. For instance, in Google's digital interface, the keyword is highlighted throughout the scanned pages of the book. In this physical prototype, the shelf will filter the most relevant book according to number of keywords. For instance, if I was looking for a book about Williamsburg, I would go to that section of the library, and all the books about Williamsburg will light up, but the most relevant book will light up brighter than the others because it will search in the database for the number of keywords. Other filters I am researching are citations (author's recommendations), frequency of a book taken off the shelf, frequency of books checked out, topics, and expert-related filters.
Last semester, I took some classes regarding networks, and decided to create two projects that utilize the shelf (Smart Shelf, and Storyteller). I learned about the limitations of network technologies. I was also interested in how people organized their shelves, and wanted to see if I could create a system for a library because of the challenge of dealing with scale. I am interested in designing tactile media that do not utilize screens (which was a huge design constraint). I wanted to build a system that would reveal new information about the book (e.g. other disciplines, relevancy), and could be used with the existing practice (library space).
Clay Shirky, \"Ontology is Overrated\"
Hassan Masum and Yi-Cheng Zhang, \"Manifesto for the Reputation Society\"
Michel Foucault
Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller, \"Design, Writing and Research\"
Ben Rubin, \"Checked Out\"
Spalding, Tim, \" When tags work and when they don\'t: Amazon and LibraryThing\"
Lee, Morgan, \"Subway books give Mexico a novel way to fight crime\", [World Changing]
Google Book Search
Toobin, Jeffrey, \"Google’s Moon Shot\"
Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, \"The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine\"
Taylor, Arlene G., \"Wynar\'s Introduction to Cataloging and Classification (Ninth Edition, 2000)\"
Wellisch, Hans, \"Indexing from A to Z (Second Edition)\"
IDEO, \"Extra Spatial\"
Perugini, Saverio; Goncalves, Marcos Andre; Fox, Edward A., \"A Connection-Centric Survey of Recommender Systems Research\"
Patrons of the public library, librarians, anyone using the Dewey Decimal and LCC classifications for doing a search, researchers, students, scientists
Searching for a book that crosses two or more disciplines. Maybe one example is that the user is doing a paper on solar systems, and specifically the sun. The most relevant book according to the number of keywords will be indicated by the brightness of the light on the shelf or the frequency it was taken off the shelf. The information will scrape through Google\'s book site. The second scenario may show multiple disciplines of a book (e.g. Walker Evan\'s book on Cuba), or its citations. Should it be in the history, art or literature section? The color of the shelf will change accordingly.
Plexiglas for the first working prototype, although I did research and this shelf can be made with conductive film laminated between two pieces of glass. There are surface mount LED lights, RFID reader, RFID tags, and sensors.
The most enlightening discovery was my research at Material Connexion. Although, I could not obtain the conductive film material, I figured out how this material could be used in between planes of glass without showing wires.