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This document discusses a research group that studies interaction design at the intersection of social sciences and computer science. They take a research through design approach and conduct both exploratory design projects with fictional scenarios and collaborative industry projects. Their research focuses on social media and how it can catalyze new forms of relationships and sociability. They explore topics like alternative communication, sociability in constrained environments, empathy in education, and using data visualization and tangible interfaces to improve social connections. They develop applied research with design methods and theoretical foundations from fields like sociology, information science, and cognitive psychology.

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Interaction design is at the junction of experience design disciplines, especially social sciences and computer science. Therefore, we collaborate with laboratories of these disciplines. We’re particularly interested in studying usages transformation and people’s motivations as well as exploring emerging usage forms and their socialization potential, technology being a mean. As a research group in the domain of interaction design, we’re assuming a research by design positioning (W. Gaver). Our research is conducted by the design practice, through an abductive reasoning, in 2 positions within Fallman’s triangle (D. Fallman): ‘Design practice’, real project, in collaboration with the industry, and ‘Exploratory design’, fictional projects, critical projects. The focus of this research program is on ‘social media’ as an interim object in an ‘empathic society’ (J.Rifkin), as a cathalyst of our relationships with people and places. In this context, the invention of new relationship forms is an essential stake, aiming at improving the connexion qualities linking people to information and environment, rather than to improve efficiency or productivity. Our approach focuses on the potential of perception, expression and reflexion towards the development of creativity, autonomy, empathy. The applied research activity is developed with the relevant design methods and grounded on a theoretical curriculum, through readings and seminars introducing concepts from sociology of ‘imaginaire’, information/communication science, semiotics, cognitive psychology, and research methods. École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs
Our research topics include · Alternative presence and interpersonal communication forms · New forms of sociability of constrained environment · Empathy in education · Engagement in usage of data through data visualization · Tangible interfaces for information and social relationship Keywords: · Interaction design, service design. · Exploratory design, design probes, design critic, reflexive practice. · Digital anthropology, observations, behavior, contextualization, societal impact. · Mobility, digital identity, sociability, presence, communication. · Workshop, prototyping, proof of concept and field study, publication. · Perception, expression, reflexion, creativity, autonomy, empathy. · Beautiful seams. Partners · Idex Paris sciences & letters (PSL) · Telecom ParisTech (social sciences/information & communication science) · Pierre-Gilles de Gennes foundation, Paris · CEAQ. Researchers, professors, and experts Direction and coordination · Remy Bourganel (professor/researcher, Ensad) Workshops · Etienne Mineur (professor/researcher, Ensad) Associated experts · Annie Gentes (Telecom Paris, information and communication science/CMU/Stanford) · Jean-Baptiste Labrune (MIT/MediaLab, computer science) · Stephane Hugon (CEAQ, sociology of ‘imaginaire’) · Samuel Grange (semiology). http://sociablemedia.ensadlab.fr remy.bourganel@ensad.fr etienne.mineur@ensad.fr
SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2013 SLOWSCREEN #Trace, thermoreactive, beautiful seams How could we design calm technology to enhance social interactions in the intimacy of the home? Slowscreen is a black capacitive fabric screen, reactive to the skin temperature. Embedded in the home—furnitures, wall parts—these sensitive areasbecomeexpressionspacesbetweenhousemates. Temperature becomes a language for interaction, as a witness of eachother traces. The ephemeral imprint evokes Rorschach inkblots, open to interpretations. This calm technology aims to integrate the usual complexity of information in the texture of everyday life. Slowscreen displays information thanks to heating resistive strings, located underneath the fabric, covered with thermo-chromic ink. The matrix contains 750 modules, in a 40x60 cm surface. The low resolution image is slowly actuated (around 1 minute to appear and disappear). Project scope Electronics, interface development, code development Project leaders Louis Eveillard, Pauline Gourlet URL http://www.beautifulseams.com/ (work in progress)
Add transports F J K L M N Nxv 1 1ax 1bx 2 3 5 6 8x 8ax 8bx9 9L 10 12 14 14L14x16x 18 19 21 22 23 24 27 28 29 30 3 17 M arket& W harves ChurchIngleside/ThirdStreet TaravalO ceanView Judah California Clement Jackson FultonParnassus BayshoreExpress SanBrunoTownsend Folsom /Pacific M ission NoriegaExpress ParkM erced 46thAvenue PolkHayesFillmore M onterey Divisadero Bryant19thAvenue SunsetStockt CaliforniaA Express CaliforniaB Express BayshoreA Express BayshoreB Express SanBrunoLimitedM issionLimited M issionExpress M N Express 8minutes late on average Chinese parade +4000 Fine art fair +800 Baseball match +1000 Pop concert +2500 Add commuters SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2013 BREAKPOINTS #Data viz, Engagement, Playfulness, Immersion How do we engage people with data? Can we use games mechanism to enhance the user’s immersion and ultimately his understanding of data? The global movement of Open Data raises the question of the usefullness of these huge datasets to the masses. Getting people to perceive the value they can find in these data is a complicated task and one that needs to be explored at the same time as companies and governments distribute more and more informations to the world. Breakpoints uses public transportation data from San Francisco, Geneva and Zurich and enables people to interact with it in order to understand how a city lives and how populations flow from one area to another during the day. Project scope Data parsing, patterns spotting, interface development, code development, photo and video editing Project leaders Louis Eveillard, Jeremy Boy Prizes Honorary prize in the Urban Data Challenge, in San Francisco. URL Video: http://vimeo.com/63063081 http://urbanprototyping.org/prototype/challenges/ urban-data-challenge-zurich-sf-geneva/
MITOYEN, LIVING TOGETHER RE-INVENTED #Design fiction, Telepresence, Close ones, Face to face How could we bring back a close one’s presence in the home, as if we were “face to face”? What if our close ones lived behind the neighbour’s wall? What if we could knock this wall down? Here at Dreamteck we made this dream come true by creating Mitoyen™. It rejoins houses of families torn apart by distance thanks to the wall-screen : FullVideo™. It reinvent our way of living together and our interiors thanks to the tables cut in two: Halves™. Project scope Idea generation, Concept development, Photo and video shooting, Video editing Project leader Max Mollon In collaboration with Orange URL http://cargocollective.com/alternative-communication/mitoyen http://vimeo.com/maxmollon/mitoyen http://lecollectif.orange.fr/concours-jeunes-designers/mitoyen SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2012
MIME, THE RELATIONSHIP ENTERTAINER #Design fiction, Telepresence, Close ones, Over time How could we bring back a close one’s presence in the home, using a calm technology, integrated to our routines and everyday object? Have you ever changed job, changed city or country? Had enough of losing touch with your friends, lover, family? Say hello to Mime! Mime is a character that you share exclusively with someone who is close to you. He lives in a light bulb. His mission? To serve as go-between to maintain your relationship “over time”, remind you of the presence of the person who is dear to you. Project scope Team leading / idea generation / concept development / chara-design / After Effects animation / photo and video shooting Project leader Max Mollon In collaboration with Orange URL http://cargocollective.com/alternative-communication/mime http://vimeo.com/maxmollon/mime http://lecollectif.orange.fr/concours-jeunes-designers/mime SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2012
SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2012 ÉC[H]O #Tangible interfaces, Calm technology, Ambient information, Reactive things How can we make invisible information tangible in our homes? And how do we diffuse this information without adding more complexity? How can home-data engage people to modify their energy consumption habits? EC[H]O Handles suffer degradation under the effect of energy consumption. Mutations in texture, temperature, resistance and softness give the handles a “living” feel. These changes are indexed on cyclical thresholds that intend to encourage inhabitants to modify their habits and behavior, not only towards the home, but also towards one another. Project scope Concept development, code prototyping, After Effects animation, photo and video shooting Project leader Jeremy Boy In collaboration with Martin Le Tiec URL lecollectif.orange.fr/concours-jeunes-designers/echo-poignees/ Video: https://vimeo.com/58771298 Interactive simulation: http://jyby.eu/simulationOrange
SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2012 ENTRE[VUES] #Presence, Shared spaces, Tactile communication Connecting generations with technology. Entrevue is an intergenerational experience to reduce the social distance between individuals. Communication is done through a screen behind a frame that is showing the same content in two places at the same time. Project scope Concept development, rapid prototyping, team leading Project leader Audrey Sovignet In collaboration with Orange URL http://lecollectif.orange.fr/concours-jeunes-designers/entrevue
SOCIAL TUNING #Mobile, Friendship, Shared-spaces How to maintain social proximity despite geographical distance? Social Tuning project—EnsadLab / BellLabs collaboration—proposes to take an offbeat posture regarding collaboration, social proximity and friendship in mobile devices. The topics explored concern Visualizing loose ties among friends using the address book, Producing a remote feeling of presence using non-verbalized interaction and Helping asynchronous collaboration in online shared spaces using the trace metaphor. The prototypes created here aim to address different problematics to map various dimension of this mobile experience. Project scope Idea generation / concept development / prototyping / App development / photo and video shooting Project leader Audrey Sovignet, Max Mollon, Jeremy Boy In collaboration with Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs (Frédérique Pain, Jean-Baptiste Labrune) URL http://youtu.be/JQSwvD-C6Dw http://cargocollective.com/alternative-communication/presense http://sociablemedia.ensadlab.fr/?p=2213&lang=en SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2011
NEEN #Mobile, Notifications, Non-verbal, How to evoke politness and subtilities in mobile communication notifications? Neen for (non-verbal emotional experience of notification) is a project that investigates how to enable phatic communication, and etiquette with someone in digitally mediated conversation engagement. Aiming at introducing fluidity, moods and politness, it revisits digital presence, non-verbal communication as well as messages or call notifications through design probes. Project scope Idea generation / concept development / prototyping / app development / photo and video shooting Project leader Geoffrey Dorne URL http://sociablemedia.ensadlab.fr/?p=1341#more-1341 http://geoffreydorne.com/neen.html SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2010
HIC&NUNC, HERE AND NOW #Mobile, Notifications, Absence How an application can support the projection of an imaginary? Provide sense to a visualisation of me and the others within space and time? HIC&NUNC explores the conditions for enabling/triggering emotions we experience when we receive a postcard from someone important for us and aims to infuse these qualities in the communications devices of the digital age. When we experience separation with the people close to our heart, distance is a privation. The postcard, despite its archaism stills one of the best subterfuge we can use to reduce the feeling of absence we encounter in such a situation. Indeed, postcards have an astonishing ability to create an affective connexion between people through distance and time. What is postcard today ? A kind of nostalgia ? The pleasure to receive ? Project scope Idea generation / concept development / prototyping / app development Project leader David Serrault URL http://sociablemedia.ensadlab.fr/?p=1307#more-1307 SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2010

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  • 1. Interaction design is at the junction of experience design disciplines, especially social sciences and computer science. Therefore, we collaborate with laboratories of these disciplines. We’re particularly interested in studying usages transformation and people’s motivations as well as exploring emerging usage forms and their socialization potential, technology being a mean. As a research group in the domain of interaction design, we’re assuming a research by design positioning (W. Gaver). Our research is conducted by the design practice, through an abductive reasoning, in 2 positions within Fallman’s triangle (D. Fallman): ‘Design practice’, real project, in collaboration with the industry, and ‘Exploratory design’, fictional projects, critical projects. The focus of this research program is on ‘social media’ as an interim object in an ‘empathic society’ (J.Rifkin), as a cathalyst of our relationships with people and places. In this context, the invention of new relationship forms is an essential stake, aiming at improving the connexion qualities linking people to information and environment, rather than to improve efficiency or productivity. Our approach focuses on the potential of perception, expression and reflexion towards the development of creativity, autonomy, empathy. The applied research activity is developed with the relevant design methods and grounded on a theoretical curriculum, through readings and seminars introducing concepts from sociology of ‘imaginaire’, information/communication science, semiotics, cognitive psychology, and research methods. École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs
  • 2. Our research topics include · Alternative presence and interpersonal communication forms · New forms of sociability of constrained environment · Empathy in education · Engagement in usage of data through data visualization · Tangible interfaces for information and social relationship Keywords: · Interaction design, service design. · Exploratory design, design probes, design critic, reflexive practice. · Digital anthropology, observations, behavior, contextualization, societal impact. · Mobility, digital identity, sociability, presence, communication. · Workshop, prototyping, proof of concept and field study, publication. · Perception, expression, reflexion, creativity, autonomy, empathy. · Beautiful seams. Partners · Idex Paris sciences & letters (PSL) · Telecom ParisTech (social sciences/information & communication science) · Pierre-Gilles de Gennes foundation, Paris · CEAQ. Researchers, professors, and experts Direction and coordination · Remy Bourganel (professor/researcher, Ensad) Workshops · Etienne Mineur (professor/researcher, Ensad) Associated experts · Annie Gentes (Telecom Paris, information and communication science/CMU/Stanford) · Jean-Baptiste Labrune (MIT/MediaLab, computer science) · Stephane Hugon (CEAQ, sociology of ‘imaginaire’) · Samuel Grange (semiology). http://sociablemedia.ensadlab.fr remy.bourganel@ensad.fr etienne.mineur@ensad.fr
  • 3. SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2013 SLOWSCREEN #Trace, thermoreactive, beautiful seams How could we design calm technology to enhance social interactions in the intimacy of the home? Slowscreen is a black capacitive fabric screen, reactive to the skin temperature. Embedded in the home—furnitures, wall parts—these sensitive areasbecomeexpressionspacesbetweenhousemates. Temperature becomes a language for interaction, as a witness of eachother traces. The ephemeral imprint evokes Rorschach inkblots, open to interpretations. This calm technology aims to integrate the usual complexity of information in the texture of everyday life. Slowscreen displays information thanks to heating resistive strings, located underneath the fabric, covered with thermo-chromic ink. The matrix contains 750 modules, in a 40x60 cm surface. The low resolution image is slowly actuated (around 1 minute to appear and disappear). Project scope Electronics, interface development, code development Project leaders Louis Eveillard, Pauline Gourlet URL http://www.beautifulseams.com/ (work in progress)
  • 4. Add transports F J K L M N Nxv 1 1ax 1bx 2 3 5 6 8x 8ax 8bx9 9L 10 12 14 14L14x16x 18 19 21 22 23 24 27 28 29 30 3 17 M arket& W harves ChurchIngleside/ThirdStreet TaravalO ceanView Judah California Clement Jackson FultonParnassus BayshoreExpress SanBrunoTownsend Folsom /Pacific M ission NoriegaExpress ParkM erced 46thAvenue PolkHayesFillmore M onterey Divisadero Bryant19thAvenue SunsetStockt CaliforniaA Express CaliforniaB Express BayshoreA Express BayshoreB Express SanBrunoLimitedM issionLimited M issionExpress M N Express 8minutes late on average Chinese parade +4000 Fine art fair +800 Baseball match +1000 Pop concert +2500 Add commuters SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2013 BREAKPOINTS #Data viz, Engagement, Playfulness, Immersion How do we engage people with data? Can we use games mechanism to enhance the user’s immersion and ultimately his understanding of data? The global movement of Open Data raises the question of the usefullness of these huge datasets to the masses. Getting people to perceive the value they can find in these data is a complicated task and one that needs to be explored at the same time as companies and governments distribute more and more informations to the world. Breakpoints uses public transportation data from San Francisco, Geneva and Zurich and enables people to interact with it in order to understand how a city lives and how populations flow from one area to another during the day. Project scope Data parsing, patterns spotting, interface development, code development, photo and video editing Project leaders Louis Eveillard, Jeremy Boy Prizes Honorary prize in the Urban Data Challenge, in San Francisco. URL Video: http://vimeo.com/63063081 http://urbanprototyping.org/prototype/challenges/ urban-data-challenge-zurich-sf-geneva/
  • 5. MITOYEN, LIVING TOGETHER RE-INVENTED #Design fiction, Telepresence, Close ones, Face to face How could we bring back a close one’s presence in the home, as if we were “face to face”? What if our close ones lived behind the neighbour’s wall? What if we could knock this wall down? Here at Dreamteck we made this dream come true by creating Mitoyen™. It rejoins houses of families torn apart by distance thanks to the wall-screen : FullVideo™. It reinvent our way of living together and our interiors thanks to the tables cut in two: Halves™. Project scope Idea generation, Concept development, Photo and video shooting, Video editing Project leader Max Mollon In collaboration with Orange URL http://cargocollective.com/alternative-communication/mitoyen http://vimeo.com/maxmollon/mitoyen http://lecollectif.orange.fr/concours-jeunes-designers/mitoyen SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2012
  • 6. MIME, THE RELATIONSHIP ENTERTAINER #Design fiction, Telepresence, Close ones, Over time How could we bring back a close one’s presence in the home, using a calm technology, integrated to our routines and everyday object? Have you ever changed job, changed city or country? Had enough of losing touch with your friends, lover, family? Say hello to Mime! Mime is a character that you share exclusively with someone who is close to you. He lives in a light bulb. His mission? To serve as go-between to maintain your relationship “over time”, remind you of the presence of the person who is dear to you. Project scope Team leading / idea generation / concept development / chara-design / After Effects animation / photo and video shooting Project leader Max Mollon In collaboration with Orange URL http://cargocollective.com/alternative-communication/mime http://vimeo.com/maxmollon/mime http://lecollectif.orange.fr/concours-jeunes-designers/mime SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2012
  • 7. SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2012 ÉC[H]O #Tangible interfaces, Calm technology, Ambient information, Reactive things How can we make invisible information tangible in our homes? And how do we diffuse this information without adding more complexity? How can home-data engage people to modify their energy consumption habits? EC[H]O Handles suffer degradation under the effect of energy consumption. Mutations in texture, temperature, resistance and softness give the handles a “living” feel. These changes are indexed on cyclical thresholds that intend to encourage inhabitants to modify their habits and behavior, not only towards the home, but also towards one another. Project scope Concept development, code prototyping, After Effects animation, photo and video shooting Project leader Jeremy Boy In collaboration with Martin Le Tiec URL lecollectif.orange.fr/concours-jeunes-designers/echo-poignees/ Video: https://vimeo.com/58771298 Interactive simulation: http://jyby.eu/simulationOrange
  • 8. SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2012 ENTRE[VUES] #Presence, Shared spaces, Tactile communication Connecting generations with technology. Entrevue is an intergenerational experience to reduce the social distance between individuals. Communication is done through a screen behind a frame that is showing the same content in two places at the same time. Project scope Concept development, rapid prototyping, team leading Project leader Audrey Sovignet In collaboration with Orange URL http://lecollectif.orange.fr/concours-jeunes-designers/entrevue
  • 9. SOCIAL TUNING #Mobile, Friendship, Shared-spaces How to maintain social proximity despite geographical distance? Social Tuning project—EnsadLab / BellLabs collaboration—proposes to take an offbeat posture regarding collaboration, social proximity and friendship in mobile devices. The topics explored concern Visualizing loose ties among friends using the address book, Producing a remote feeling of presence using non-verbalized interaction and Helping asynchronous collaboration in online shared spaces using the trace metaphor. The prototypes created here aim to address different problematics to map various dimension of this mobile experience. Project scope Idea generation / concept development / prototyping / App development / photo and video shooting Project leader Audrey Sovignet, Max Mollon, Jeremy Boy In collaboration with Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs (Frédérique Pain, Jean-Baptiste Labrune) URL http://youtu.be/JQSwvD-C6Dw http://cargocollective.com/alternative-communication/presense http://sociablemedia.ensadlab.fr/?p=2213&lang=en SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2011
  • 10. NEEN #Mobile, Notifications, Non-verbal, How to evoke politness and subtilities in mobile communication notifications? Neen for (non-verbal emotional experience of notification) is a project that investigates how to enable phatic communication, and etiquette with someone in digitally mediated conversation engagement. Aiming at introducing fluidity, moods and politness, it revisits digital presence, non-verbal communication as well as messages or call notifications through design probes. Project scope Idea generation / concept development / prototyping / app development / photo and video shooting Project leader Geoffrey Dorne URL http://sociablemedia.ensadlab.fr/?p=1341#more-1341 http://geoffreydorne.com/neen.html SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2010
  • 11. HIC&NUNC, HERE AND NOW #Mobile, Notifications, Absence How an application can support the projection of an imaginary? Provide sense to a visualisation of me and the others within space and time? HIC&NUNC explores the conditions for enabling/triggering emotions we experience when we receive a postcard from someone important for us and aims to infuse these qualities in the communications devices of the digital age. When we experience separation with the people close to our heart, distance is a privation. The postcard, despite its archaism stills one of the best subterfuge we can use to reduce the feeling of absence we encounter in such a situation. Indeed, postcards have an astonishing ability to create an affective connexion between people through distance and time. What is postcard today ? A kind of nostalgia ? The pleasure to receive ? Project scope Idea generation / concept development / prototyping / app development Project leader David Serrault URL http://sociablemedia.ensadlab.fr/?p=1307#more-1307 SOCIABLE MEDIA – PROJECTS 2010