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Co-opting everyday objects

AUDIO AURA Ironically, this first project1 does not involve augmenting an object, but augmenting the auditory ambiance that “surrounds” a physical space, in this case the office spaces in Xerox PARC. Briefly, the intent was that users would hear information in the background audio associated with different spaces, e.g. the past presence of a colleague in their empty office. This design suffered from the lack of a strong ethnography voice. Although informed by an insider’s knowledge of PARC practices, the effort was consumed by creating a working system and designing the auditory landscape. Although significant contributions were made on both of those fronts [6], the lack of a strong connection between the designers and the user community allowed the design to quickly follow its own path making deployment and evaluation difficult.