my presentation from Reboot 9.0 on 'Ambient Intimacy' which is how I describe the experience of connectedness via online social networks. Blog post here: http://www.disambiguity.com/reboot-90-ambient-intimacy/

1. ambient intimacy
leisa reichelt
disambiguity.com
Ambient Intimacy
Leisa Reichelt | Reboot 9.0

3. hvad er ‘ambient intimacy?’

5. ‘situational awareness’
30 boxes

6. ‘hyper-connectivity’
om malik

7. ‘hive mind’
davezilla, blog comment

8. ‘virtual lice picking’
andrew duval, blog comment

9. ‘intimate social networks’
ito & okabe 2005

10. ‘distributed co-presence’
ito & okabe 2005

11. ‘full-time intimate
communities’
Matsuda 2005 following Nakajima, Keiichi
and Yoshino 1999

12. ‘tele-cocoons’
Ichiyo Habuchi 2005

14. and lots more...

19. differences

21. >150?

24. the village green

25. ‘the globe has been
turned into a village by
electronic media’

27. ≈

28. are these people
*really* friends?

31. why is ambient intimacy
important?
(or, even perhaps relevant?)

32. phatic expressiveness
for virtual spaces

33. ‘in linguistics, a phatic
expression is one
whose only function is
to perform a social task’

34. ‘continual partial friendship’
david weinberger, joho the blog

35. ‘it’s not about being
poked and prodded, it’s
about exposing more
surface area for others
to connect with’
Johnnie Moore

36. it’s a love/hate thing

38. parse-ability

41. design to support
ambient intimacy

42. let’s talk...
leisa reichelt
leisa.reichelt@gmail.com
flow-interactive.com
disambiguity.com
twitter: /leisa

43. Image Credits
• graphpaper.com/2007/03-15_sxsw-2007-twitter-social-cyborgs
• flickr.com/photos/andybudd/364745733
• flickr.com/photos/mo/22337757
• flickr.com/photos/carradine65/90084642
• flickr.com/photos/81887528@N00520045137
• flickr.com/photos/88433615@N00/346832371
• flickr.com/photos/nialkennedy/407135104
• flickr.com/photos/62361777@N00/475349203
• marcellomedia.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/hunde.jpg
• headrush.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/twittercurve.jpg
• flickr.com/photos/brandnewbrain/122276304
• and the rest are mine