- Universitas = "The Whole" (Latin);
- Mann's Universitas= Wearable Computing + IoT + AR/VR/Robotics + Smart Cities (itti 2001);
- Education: A university for people of all ages: Preschool (early childhood), Kindergarten, ... Undergrad, Grad, Postdoc. (Suzuki Method versus Mann Method);
- Health (e.g. Neuroscience + surgery, etc.);
- Rehab (e.g. Hydraulophonesplashtones.com = Water therapy + Music therapy);
- Fitness (Mannfit);
- Emergency Preparedness (DECONference, Bradecon), Open-Source (Metaveillance, SWIM);
Interdisciplinary like MIT Media Lab, but more complete.
Goal: to create the world's water epicentre:
- Natural User-Interfaces and
Human-Environment Interaction (AI/HI/Wearbales/IoT/SmartCities/Robotics); - Water+nature;
- Water is universal, tangible, touchable;
- Nexus of science+innovation, research+teaching+outreach, arts+culture + music, fun+FROLICity, health care, emergency preparedness;
- Let's draw inspiration from lateral thinkers like Leonardo daVinci
Centre for
Cyborg-Environment Interaction
Natural User-Interfaces and
Human-Environment Interaction
Cyborg Environment Interaction (CEI)
We're all cyborgs in some sense... shoes, clothing...
We thus interact indirectly with nature
We're expected, and even required, to be cyborgs
Nature Deficit Disorder...
Natural environments and intelligent environments
"Environment" and "Nature" in the wide sense
(Philips "Lumimotion" and Illumination Concepts "Intellistreets")
Cyborg Environment Interaction (CEI)
Nature in the wide-sense...
Environment in the wide-sense
Cyborg Environment Interaction (CEI)
Design for CEI
Natural User Interface (NUI)
(image: Wikimedia Commons)
Intelligent Image Processing, Mann 2001
Natural User Interfaces
Metaphor-free computing
Reality User Interfaces
Natural elements: Earth, Water, Air...
Water, in particular, is an exemplary natural element.
Intimate, pure, primal
Dihydrogen monoxide (H2O) is important to us
We even have words for it when it exists in each of its states-of-matter:
- Dihydrogen monoxide in its solid form is called "ice".
- Dihydrogen monoxide in its liquid form is called "water".
- Dihydrogen monoxide in its gaseous form (i.e. as a vapour) is called "steam".
Other chemicals like carbon dioxide (CO2), don't have a single word for each of their 3 states.
Takehome: H2O and water are NOT the same thing!
H2O is a proper superset of water!
true water instrument.
• Physiotherapy
• Water therapy
• Education
• Water outreach...
Hydraulophones at Splash2011
Hydraulophone
Hydraulophone
Hydraulophones as civic centerpieces
Design and public art
Hydraulophones as civic centerpieces
WOIP (Water Over Internet Protocol)
Splash page: Put on your surf shorts to "surf the web"
Truly Natural User Interfaces
WOIP (Water Over Internet Protocol)
Multimedia beyond acoustic vibrations in water:
To touch and be touched by water.
Try to stop me if you will
I'll keep on spraying, spraying still.
I am water, still as glass,
so block me, block me, still I pass.
--S. Mann, 2011
Interim Manniversity Hydraulikos Water Lab
Proposed Hydraulikos collaborators:
- Mannlab;
- Watech;
- Canada;
- United States;
- China, Shenzhen
- China, Shanghai
- China, Zhouhai
- China, Hangzhou
- China (His Excellency, Xi Jinping (閣下, 习近平)
Take-home message and Action Items:
- Water is universal, i.e. lateral (lab + life)
- Opportunity to embrace water laterally
- Fluid User Interfaces: To touch and be touched by water!
- Hydraulikos: Ontario-based Global Water Centre
- Admin+grantwriter, contingency
- Names and phone numbers of 5 lateral people