Ulla-Maaria Mutanen, Social Objects | Social Objects: Designing Social Affordances to Material Artifacts April 24, 2008

Adding online services to physical objects is changing the way we interact with our environment. In this talk I will describe ways to tag ordinary objects with online resources and provide conceptual tools for analyzing their social effects. I'll talk about a few different scenarios, including objects as:
- experience triggers: touching an object to play a song or video, or show an image or start a game
- conversation sites: objects as virtual billboards and fridge doors
- origin revealers: objects that tell who made them; when, where, and how
- social networking platforms: objects that enable their beholder to connect with other people

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Design Futures lecture series
sponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media and the UC Berkeley School of Information