LUDWIG ZELLER
Cognition on the Edge - Presentation of the CubeBrowser concept
Abstract
The „Cognition on the Edge“ concept tries to think two branches of Distributed Cognition together: The concepts of Embodied Cognition on the one hand and Socially Distributed Cognition on the other. The former is describing our bodily-based existence in the world as a highly important foundation for all cognitive processes, while the latter tries to outline the distribution of intelligence across several or many people.
This talk explains these concepts in detail and presents the CubeBrowser project as the design study for a six display cube, which tries to be an experimental, interface between both described phenomena. A Tangible User Interface that allows for browsing "cyber-places" that are created out of the collective effort of thousands of Flickr users by feeding back their collective perceptions into the WWW. Thus, both branches of Distributed Cognition meet at the edge between the embodied user and the socially created cyber-place.
Speaker's bio
The Cologne-based artist and designer Ludwig Zeller (*1981) experiments in the fields of interaction design and art. His work deals with aspects of urbanism and phenoma of network topology. Recent projects have been „CubeBrowser“ and „Open Circuit“.