Presentation at iLRN 2019 - paper at http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/8368
Complexity is core part of our lives. Aware or not, people need to understand and communicate complex ideas and perspectives. Understanding and communicating complexity can be facilitated through interactive simulations. Doing so in the physical world is often impractical, however. Users and developers are overloaded with information and ambiguity, costs are prohibitive, and unsupervised physical simulations raise safety concerns. Novel immersive technology might hold the key to transforming how we tackle understanding and communicating complexity. In this position paper, we propose empowering user agency and perception to take part in complex learning experiences and create their own, combining two factors: enhanced visual and spatial context provided by location-awareness, immersive environments, and somatic, embodied agency; and enhanced cultural and social context by leveraging as input methods the rich semantics of cultural-social gestures and rituals. To deem the feasibility of this argument, we propose developing two culture-aware prototypes, one for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in Montana, United States, and another for a Western Europe cultural context.
13. Emergence
The behaviour of flocks/crowds
cannot be predicted from individual
motions of a single bird/person
Awareness (the
“feeling of self”)
is not
predictable from
the individual
behaviour of
each neuron.
Network behaviour
(computational,
social, political,
etc.) is not
predictable from
individual
behaviours of
citizens, laws or
devices.
14. Properties that lead to emergence
a) Multiple elements
b) Non-linearity & phase transitions
c) Connectivity
d) Self-organization & evolution
19. Return of the culture anthropolojedi
(i.e. our proposal)
20. (…)
embracing the cultural
richness and depth of
human cultures it is
expectable (…) easier to
learn and remember
[how to use technology]
Leonel Morgado, "Cultural Awareness and
Personal Customization of Gestural Commands
Using a Shamanic Interface”, 2014
21. enhanced visual and spatial context enhanced cultural and social context
location-awareness, immersive environments,
and somatic, embodied agency
input: rich semantics of cultural-social
gestures and rituals
22. enhanced visual and spatial context
exploring the interconnected
concepts and data
23. enhanced cultural and social context
more powerful & diverse
agency semantics
deeper perception
better understanding
24. enhanced visual and spatial context enhanced cultural and social context
Communicate
Understand
27. From the child book “Blue jay brings chinook wind”
Kicking Horse Reservoir — Flathead Indian
Reservation
From the child book “Luli’s Journey”
Geese V-shaped flight formation
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Case Study