Comments on: Reboot 9.0 – Ambient Intimacy

By: A public talk by Kevin Lim (of theory.isthereason.com) | Hazman Aziz

A public talk by Kevin Lim (of theory.isthereason.com) | Hazman Aziz — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:50:34 +0000

[...] Who Kevin Lim [of theory.isthereason.com] is currently pursuing his PhD in Communication and is teaching in the Educational Technology Center at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). He studies the wide-ranging cultural affordances of technology, focusing particularly on the pedagogical aspects of social media. Being passionate about making and sharing videos, Kevin is currently challenging notions of virtuality through his modular “sousveillance” backpack. In an attempt at enhancing the usefulness of video, this unique backpack allows him to experiment with lifecasting, ambient intimacy, and video as a form of memory prosthetic (also see eyetap and wearcam). [...]

By: Nick Noakes

Nick Noakes — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:39:21 +0000

Are my ambient intimates on twitter the ones where the posts have @twitterhandle?

By: theory.isthereason » Future Fashion of Ubiquitous Computing (Part 2)

theory.isthereason » Future Fashion of Ubiquitous Computing (Part 2) — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:03:36 +0000

[...] Ambient Intimacy (or Continuous Partial Presence) User experience blogger, Leisa Reichel, shared her thoughts on what she terms as “Ambient Intimacy“. As she highlighted, this isn’t too different from what you might have seen elsewhere, be it Situational Awareness, Hyper-Connectivity, Hive Mind, Social Presence, Distributed Co-Presence etc. to the uninitiated, I personally refer to it as maintaining continuous partial presence, especially since it’s less likely to raise eyebrows. [...]

By: disambiguity - » What we need, right, is a big volume control for Ambient Intimacy

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:34:00 +0000

[...] Kind of like how you need different levels and types of ambient noise to match various activities in your day. (In my my presentation on Ambient Intimacy at Reboot I suggested an important challenge for ’social designers’ was to think more about how to design for ambience in social applications). [...]

By: Building Relationships With Social Media Tools | Verge New Media

Building Relationships With Social Media Tools | Verge New Media — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:03:50 +0000

[...] This Twitter friend had really pointed out the strange duality of this Contiuous Partial Friendship (David Weinberger’s nod to Linda Stone’s critical theory on social media, Continuous Partial Attention) While I won’t delve into the pros and cons, it is both great and crazy, or curious at least, why people who’ve never met feel such affinity towards one another. People who I’ve never met genuinely care about what I’m doing, just as I care about them. This affinity, which Leisa Reichelt describes as Ambient Intimacy, helps us stay connected across time and space and build unique bonds using online social media tools. that sense of connectedness that you get from participating in social tools online that allow you to feel as though you are maintaining and, perhaps in fact, increasing your closeness with people in your social network through the messages and content that you share online – be it photographs or text or information about upcoming travel. -Leisa Reichelt [...]

By: Hazman Aziz » A public talk by Kevin Lim (http://theory.isthereason.com/)

Hazman Aziz » A public talk by Kevin Lim (http://theory.isthereason.com/) — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:54:37 +0000

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By: James Governor’s Monkchips » Ambient Intimacy: From picking fleas to eating peas

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:25:35 +0000

[...] Leisa came up with the term ambient intimacy for how we use social software in social networking. Its a snowball rolling downhill. A book deal and a blog renaming are surely a matter of time. She apparently rocked the house at Reboot. As apes we groomed each other – it made us closer. The mundane is powerful, the quotidian defines us. Do I care that you ate peas for dinner? Not really. But if you share a quick recipe I might appreciate it. Does anyone really want to live in a world where all we talk about is work? Where the only language we speak is that of the MBA? Me – I prefer a little monkey business, because play drives productivity. That’s ambient intimacy. [...]

By: theory.isthereason » “Youtube and beyond: What you want to know but never knew who to ask”

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:19:49 +0000

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:49:35 +0000

Nicely put together… I’ve been watching this concept of continuous partial presence take foot, but like you I tend to like the idea of ambient intimacy better.

Thinking about it further, we engage with it in mechanical ways as well, such as why we are in the habit of leaving the radio or television on in the background. Online media in this case lets us personalize the experience, but allowing us more control over who was want to maintain intimacy or presence with.

I’ve put together my own lifecasting rig to experience this myself, right now I’m limited doing it at events such as conferences. Combining this with twitter, I have people direct me live as I receive messages via my phone. It was certainly interesting being a human platform, aka social cyborg.

By: chirp. « Levite Chronicles

chirp. « Levite Chronicles — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:42:45 +0000

[...] Leisa Reichelt spoke at a conference in June on the idea of twitter being part of creating Ambient Intimacy. At the link are her presentation slides and a summary of her presentation [...]