Mindtrek Day 3

We started today the program with  a presentation of Latif Ladid, a man with a clear vision about  the future of the internet. The message is: the internet must be changed. Nowadays a quarter of the world population is/can go to the internet and that’s not enough. Everyone must have the possibility to use the internet in a save and payable way.  That’s why there’s a need for new infrastructure ( IP v6 instead of IP v4).

Again there were different tracks of the program: Social moving pictures, Social machines and War stories.
Social machines: the most interesting story, by prof. Hideki Kozima, was about experiments with social machines as a catalyser in the social interactions of autistic young children.
He showed in video’s how the child reacted over a longer period to the so called “keepon” and shared his feelings with the mother/ teacher.

War stories: in a session of Tina Aspiala some useful advises were given for how to keep your clients when they reach your website. Very handy for starting entrepreneurs who are developing there website.


The last keynote speaker of the Mindtrek conference was a very critical woman: Joan Jacobsen, social media expert consultant, who gave the IT-audition a “wake-up call”.
A lot of business are losing their trust in IT nowadays. A lot of applications she found completely useless (for example Second life).
IT applications don’t solve problems, but create problems for the user.And also IT sells their opportunities in a wrong way. She showed several bad examples of advertising and presenting.” Stop talking HOW things works, but tell what they can do for the user ,the business”.  For more information:

http://joannejacobs.net/

Time flies and also this week in Finland. We heard different developments in the field of media on the conference and visited schools in Tampere. We also met people from other schools in the Netherlands who invited us to visit them.
We think we are going in the right direction with the Noorderpoort School of Arts but there is still work to do. What we saw in  Tampere college and university can inspire us.



http://www.kolumbus.fi/outi.aho/outiaho_cryingrobots.html
http://www.myu.ac.jp/~xkozima/index-eng.html
http://eat.fi/
http://www.joannejacobs.net/