Kategorie: Interaction Design

A digital citizen refers to a person utilising information technology (IT) in order to engage in society, politics, and government. K. Mossberger et al. define digital citizens as „those who use the Internet regularly and effectively“. Digital citizens understand digital citizenship, which is the appropriate use of technology.

According to nine elements of digital citizenship from the digitalcitizenship.net, I would like to divide them into four parts to illustrate.

The access to the Internet:
Digital access: We talked about this in China in the first part. As data showed before, we have more than 23.9 million children can be classified as a digital citizen.

The access to digital commerce:
Digital commerce: This is the ability for users to recognise that much of the economy is regulated online. It also deals with the understanding of the dangers and benefits of online buying, using credit cards online, and so forth. As with the advantages and legal activities- there is also dangerous activities such as illegal downloads, gambling, drug deals, pornography, plagiarism, and so forth.

The access to understanding including digital communication, digital literacy and digital etiquette:
Digital communication: This element deals with understanding the variety of online communication mediums such as email, instant messaging, Facebook messenger, the variety of apps, and so forth. There is a standard of etiquette associated with each medium. The children have the same right in these digital applications but do not understand all of them, that’s why the designer should re-think the interaction between children and digital use.

Digital literacy: This deals with the understanding of how to use various digital devices. For example, how to properly search for something on a search engine versus a database. How to use various online logs. Oftentimes many educational institutions will help form an individual’s digital literacy.

Digital etiquette: As discussed in the third element, digital communication, this is the expectation that various mediums require a variety of etiquette. Certain mediums demand more appropriate behaviour and language than others. The digital transaction can be a specific medium, which reflects family relationship, social status and personnel management. We should explore more appropriate design language for mobile payment.

How children understand the consumption content, consumption patterns and consumption etiquette in the digital world are blank now, and these three parts will play an essential role in the cultivation of children’s monetary consciousness. The Communication of these three parts is directly related to the design.

The primary access:
Digital law: This is where enforcement occurs for illegal downloads, plagiarizing, hacking, creating viruses, sending spams, identity theft, cyberbullying, and so forth.
Digital rights and responsibilities: This is the set of rights digital citizens have such as privacy, speech, and so forth.
Digital health: Digital citizens must be aware of the physical stress placed on their bodies by internet usage. They must be aware to not become overly dependent on the internet causing eye strain, headaches, stress problems, and so on.
Digital security: This simply means that citizens must take measures to be safe by practising using difficult passwords, virus protection, backing up data, and so forth.

As a digital citizen, Why children need to reconstruct their monetary consciousness? First, the ubiquitous Internet poses specific health and safety threats to children’s mental and physical health. Second, children also have the rights and responsibilities of digital citizens and are also subject to legal constraints. All of these first accesses of a digital citizen should be accepted and be respected by all digital designers.

 

After gathering information and researching topic, the next step was to get to the actual using of software. For now my main interest was creating the first heatmap. Since there’s no such feature in Google Analytics I chose another tool. I set up tracking by adding simple lines of code to my personal website.

1. Hotjar provides users with a number of information about users such as country of origin, OS, time on website, resolution of the display etc.

2. The most interesting feature is heat maps. It’s possible to select scroll or tap maps, data from desktop computers, phones to tablets.  Map gives clear visualisation that most of users sorted out types of the work.

 

 

3. It’s possible to view a session of the single user as well

Im Laufe der Recherche ist ersichtlich geworden, dass es einerseits bereits einige wertvolle Virtual und Augmented Reality Applikationen und Tools auf dem Markt gibt, die im Bildungsbereich anwendbar sind und die es Schülern ermöglichen würden, ihren jeweiligen Lernstoff auf völlig neue Art und Weise zu erarbeiten, jedoch hat sich andererseits gezeigt, dass viele dieser Applikationen und vor allem die dafür notwendige Ausrüstung in Form von VR/AR-Brillen ein erhöhter Kostenaufwand für Schulen wären.

Unimersiv

Dieses Start-up hat eine VR Bildungs-App auf den Mark gebracht, welche für Oculus Rift und Samsung Gear VR benutzbar ist. Unimersiv besitzt die größte Plattform an bildungsspezifischen VR-Experiences, auf die man mittels des Downloads ihrer App Zugriff erhält. Diese Experiences werden laufend und laut Start-up jeden Monat aktualisiert. So können Benutzer inzwischen virtuell zu Stonehenge, der internationalen Raumstation, zur Titanic, der Akropolis vor über tausend Jahren, ins antike Rom oder ins menschliche Gehirn reisen und über Dinosaurier oder die menschliche Anatomie lernen. Dabei können die User sich nicht nur frei in der virtuellen Umgebung umsehen, sondern erhalten durch die App auch bildungsbereichernden Inhalt in Form von Erzählungen, Pop-up Texten und Bildern. Bisher sind zumindest die ersten drei VR-Experiences kostenfrei (Stonehenge, International Space Station und menschliche Anatomie).

Electronic ink technology by E Ink.

It needs no backlighting, because it uses different coloured layers and ambient light to create differently coloured pixels. When laminated into a plastic film and adhered to electronics it creates an Electronic Paper Display (EDP).

So far E Ink created three different systems each serving a different need.

Two Pigment Ink System

That makes the surface appear either white or black.

Three Pigment Ink System

This technology was specifically developed for Electronic Shelf Labels – ESL.

Advanced Colour ePaper (ACeP)

By combining all eight primary colours this ePaper achieves a full colour gamut without needing a colour filter array.

The E Ink Triton displays offer 16 levels of grayscale and are capable of displaying 4096 colours.

E Ink Triton

By charging the different pigments – structurally quite similar printer ink – they change their position and create a picture on the display. As soon as the pigments are charged and showing a steady page they stay in place and the screen needs no more energy until it has to change the displayed screen again. Which makes it an incredible low-energy alternative to commonly used displays.

Once these e Ink microcapsules are created and laminated onto a roll of plastic they can be cut into any shape and used for different purposes. Furthermore E Ink plastic films are highly flexible and can be applied onto pretty much any surface allowing almost anything to become a display.

E Ink film roll running down from a window.

Even though their screens can’t display high quality pictures like LCD displays etc. their energy saving ability makes them perfect for different use cases. Such as price tags, eReaders, presentational tablets, etc.

Also their non reflective screen makes it the perfect digital alternative to paper.

Use case:

http://www.yotamobile.com/

The yotaphone actually combines the advantages of both screens and introduces users to the e-ink screen in a very innovative way. The e-ink screen can be used for almost everything the LCD display is, but also allows users to creatively decorate or customise their phones by just changing the phone covers design.

Sources:

https://www.eink.com/electronic-ink.html

http://www.yotamobile.com/

https://www.eink.com/e-ink-film.html

https://www.eink.com/color-technology.html

Nature is a given source to go to for inspiration and new ideas on problem solving especially concerning design challenges or -problems.

“You could look at nature as being like a catalog of products, and all of those have benefited from a 3.8 billion year research and development period. And given that level of investment, it makes sense to use it.”
-Michael Pawlyn

A very interesting and by far not fully understood topic in biomimicry is the phenomenon of colour through structure. This can be observed in the wings of a colourful butterfly or the chitin in the shell of a beetle.

They are not coloured in the way we understand it, but have microscopic irregularities that reflect light in different angles and therefore change its frequencies, so when the light is received by the eye it appears as if the surface was coloured in many different colours when it’s actually not coloured at all.

„I like looking at what organisms do that’s completely different from the way we do the same thing. For instance, take a peacock feather. If we were to make it, we would use chemicals and pigments. But actually, the only pigment is brown. It’s done with structural color and transparent layers. When light reflects back to us through the layers, it creates the color blue or green or gold to your eye.“ – Janine Benyus

Biomimicry – Innovation inspired by nature.

Not for nothing people turn to nature for inspiration when approaching problems in a design project, but we mainly think of physical products when the term biomimicry and design are mentioned in the same sentence.

We think of examples like the velcro fastener, DaVinci’s flying apparatus or Japan’s Shinkansen Bullet Train which was drastically improved after shaping it’s nose like the beak of a kingfisher – thus the train was finally able to enter and leave a tunnel without breaking the sound barrier.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/36/60/2e/36602e604a97698831cb9686a24b63c5.jpg

Biomimicry is the use of methods in economy which mimic natural processes. Thus to reduce waste of and avoid impact on the environment.The Biomimicry Institute defines it like this:

“Biomimicry is an approach to innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies.”

http://www.designatlarge.it/biomimicry-design-and-innovation/?lang=en

Nature consists of proven concepts that developed over millions of years. Beginning with the most simple single cell organisms to the massive static solution of the enormous Redwood tree nature presents us with the best solutions – as well in economical as in ecological terms.

The concept of biomimicry is long know, but not often enough in use.

In our consume driven society we don’t think about our waste management and about what happens with our products after we used them. Most products are composed of many different materials that are hard to separate after combining them and composite like plastics, etc. are hardly degradable at all.

A natural result of our wasteful uneconomic lifestyle are more and more frequently occurring climate phenomena, that are supposed to be seen as a signal to change our way of living. Climate change and lack of resources will finally force us to rethink our ways of living and consumption, and eventually change our habits.

For a solutions to our problems we ought to look around us and seek guidance by the greatest prototyper we have, nature. Well proven concepts are all around us we only have to observe and adapt our ways of designing and manufacturing to natural principles.

“When we look at what is truly sustainable, the only real model that has worked over long periods of time is the natural world.”
-Janine Benyus

 

Sources:

https://biomimicry.org/what-is-biomimicry/

http://www.designatlarge.it/biomimicry-design-and-innovation/?lang=en