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Social Platforms in the Real World

 

    Flickr is a virtual environment. What do physical platforms for social objects look like? You don't need to replicate every social tool provided by online social sites like Flickr to be successful. People use different social tools and transactions in different environments, and those that work virtually may not all translate for physical environments.

    You may not be able to write a note directly on an artifact, but museums and physical environments provide other social design opportunities that are impossible to simulate virtually. For example, oversize objects often function as social objects because they are surprising and can be experienced by many people at once. There's no way to design a comparable virtual object that suddenly and completely overwhelms several strangers' sensory experience. Highly designed immersive environments, which provide context that may make some artifacts feel more active or provocative, are another example of a physical design platform that can accentuate the sociality of objects.

    In the following five sections, we explore different classes of social tools, or design techniques, that can activate artifacts as social objects in physical design: juxtaposition, instructions, questions, sharing, and performance. 

 

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