The actual writing-up aspect of the project has probably been the most useful part of the exercise because it has forced to filter down what I have resaerched to only the most useful parts. As I was writing the report it just suddenly became clear that the best way to explain the key aspects of phatic technologies was just to take the best examples and essentially what they do well. As obvious as it sunds this just didn’t occur before I started writing up.
Unfortunately at the last minute I had to scale back the actual written part of the research project. It wasn’t viable to do all that I wanted to within just 1500 words so I concentrated on just introducing the concept of phatic comunication and ubiquitous computing. I have then used three major academic works as case studies to highlight some key design considerations for phatic interfaces. During the presentation however I will go onto speak of the my other research.
