Project Description
I worked on this Microsoft sponsored project with five other designers during the spring of 2003. The brief from Microsoft was broad and open, they asked us to explore the theme of "Sharing Personal Media".

Design Solution
After researching aspects of the assigned theme we decided that groups of people traveling together were a good audience through which to explore the theme of "Sharing Personal Media". Specifically we chose to look at people traveling on dive trips together.

From our research we decided that we wanted to create an environment where sharing media was a social activity. Additionally we wished to enhance the personal nature of the media collected. Out of these goals came Sharespace and Triptotem.

Sharespace is a large shared interface that allows users to share media in a social setting, for example in the bar following a days diving. Triptotem is an extension of a concept that I developed in the Fond Video Camera during my undergraduate studies, that gives media storage a distinctive and desirable physical form, making it an object that better integrates with peoples' domestic settings than the nondescript media vessels of today.

In addition to contributing to team research and concept development, I did much of the animation work in the final concept scenario presentation, which you can view here:
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