#RemotePresence

[henrymoore11]

Every lag, every glitch, every awkward join button costs trust. Stop losing deals to bad tools.

[immersedin]

One of my absolute favourite signals and ideas about how to represent remote co-presence. In the Tunisian football league, with fans banned from the stadium, crowds/fans clap and cheer along by tapping their phones as they watch on TV at home. This turns into synchronous audio in the stadium that parallels a real crowd (perhaps minus the fould language and jeering). Translate to a human rights context to represent the remote crowd that has your back?

[immersedin]

=What if we could discreetly give feedback to the company we keep? Would it lead to better conversations or would it drive us crazy? How far of a stretch is this from our current technology-mediated interactions with each other? A home object for affecting shared experience. Users move foot pedals to rate their current enjoyment of their experience with others at the table. The tabletop brightens or dims to reflect the cumulative group rating. If the enjoyment level drops dangerously low, the table flashes a distress signal to call for help from others that might save the conversation.

lauren mccarthy

Another really interesting art project exploring shared presence from Lauren McCarthy. For co-presence for good this one interesting to look at as a way to represent collective remote presence and energy - via light

[immersedin]

One way to represent remote co-presence? Wearable massage jacket helps people de-stress you from a distance: "Stress OutSourced (SOS), a project started at the MIT Media Lab, is a peer-to-peer network that allows anonymous users to send each other therapeutic massages to relieve stress"

http://stressoutsourced.com/