The terms, ideas, and applications below are devoted to empowering people to interact with representations of information in ways that are ever more seamlessly integrated into the lives they would ideally choose to live, with an emphasis on joy, health, and ecological harmony.


Selected Examples (see table beneath for more examples and explicatory material):

 

  • GISture: the confluence of gesture-integrating user interfaces with geographic information systems (GIS),

  • Somavigation: navigation through datasets and the Internet making predominant use of the body in motion,

  • tan-GI-ble: user interfaces for geographic information (GI) technology that you can touch, hold, and bring home to give to your grandchildren on their birthdays,

  • Bodily Regions: knowledge networking and computer-supported collaborative work that emphasize connections between urban/regional development and the human body,

  • massaGIS: interactions with geographic information systems while giving and receiving body work,

  • hugGIS: bordering on the ridiculous at first glance but actually quite realistic, hugGIS, derived from Huggies (as in the diapers), represents a body harness worn so that people's trunk movements can interface with GIS,

  • yoGIS: people who utilize these or other techniques to integrate GIS into the study of yoga.


    Considerations, Innovations, and Links on Multimodal Interation for Practical and Enjoyable Map Interfaces
    (but really only the tip of the iceberg of what's out there brewing today)

     

    Theory & Literature (Links)
    Proposed Applications (written by M. A. Bedar)
    Related Technology (links)
    Other Thoughts (written by M. A. Bedar)
    Task-Driven and Pervasive Computing What We Knead to Live Perceptual User Interfaces (PUI) IT and Well-Being in a Scenario of Resource Constraints and Altered Fulfillment
    Grok-It Science massaGIS What can be done with gesture? Who are these ideas for, anyway?: Brazilian Kinesthetic Culture and the Rainforest Challenge
    GIS: A nervous system for the planet? DigitAll-Terraining Gesture and multimodal annotation How Active Campus and Digital Graffiti (AC/DG) will promote sustainable development
    What GIS brings to the life of information Onsite Detection of Embodied Expression as a Demographic Variable in Design Context Research GeoNotes Kinesthetic Sense and Meaning in Practice: The cases of dance choreography and clinical prosthetics
    Sixth College Carrying Capacity

    Active Campus, Active Class, portable navigation tools, and digital graffiti

    		The Connected Monk
    Computer Vision and Robotics Research Form and FengShuin

    Geo-Multimedia 2002

    		 GiftUR, a poem
    William McDonough The packaGIS Things Come In Sensor Networks for Healthcare, the Environment, and Homeland Defense D-Light
    Saraland/SpaceCast Movie-Based Web Searching and Web Search-Based Movies Sim Games Dance-umentary
      Tools, such as StarLogo and Swarm, for exploring massively parallel, decentralized worlds "Movigation," or
    "Somavigation"
    Work of Jun Rekimoto, e.g. SmartSkin and GestureWrist Gesture-Based Querying and Searching Visualizing information's coming and going: dynamic network routing topology with Skitter: Inward, In World
    Metacognition marriaGIS Personal Information Geographies by Dan Bauer GI Whiz
    Papers on human acts of sorting, and distributed practices in environmental science, by Geof Bowker GI Energy: Tai GI and GI Gong Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs)/Multiscale Visualization/Infinte Resolution Paper, for object sorting and layered organization  
    Brain Gym capoeirGIStas Smart Technologies  
    STELARC explores and extends the concept of the body and its relationship with technology Ojas from o-GIS MIT Media Lab and Gesture & Narrative Group  
    Embodied Cognition Lab reliGIS, catantrartech The Senses Bureau
    EMMVR = Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) + Environmental Medicine and Psychology* Bodies of Whater? An Ambient, Tangible, History-Enriched Task Environment for the Rehabiliation of Hemi-Inattention Annotations of Dance and Prosthetics
        Biofeedback  

      * The deans of natural sciences and medicine at UCSD recently gathered to propose a long-term, concerted effort towards the study of the relationship between medicine and the environment. The activities of MMVR, as well as the other groups linked to on this page, suggests that there is much ongoing innovation on which to build the tools that will bring environmental concerns into healthcare. So, one could say that the niche of GISture, Bodily Regions, tan-GI-ble, massaGIS,and hugGIS is where Environmental Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (EMMVR). Examples: throttle control for fly-through geospatial data emersion; sorting of regional planning options by gesture recognition in StkPAD environment.


    When and By Whom Should the Work Be Done? (coming)

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