IDIAP Presentation
November
24, 2005 |
a 25 year action research lab:
human cognition, communication, design |
In November, 2005, I spent a day at IDIAP [link: IDAP research institute]. I gave an informal talk followed by dialog and then me being given demonstrations of various works in progress.
To read my Paper based on this experience...
GoTo: idiap presentation 05 - a 25 year action research lab
Below is a summary of the major points, concepts and conclusions drawn in this Paper with links to relevant places within it and other resources.
Matt Taylor
January 5, 2005
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| My remarks to IDAP are based on experience of applying a model of human mind to the making and using of environments dedicated to facilitating human creativity in individuals and groups. For over 25 years MG Taylor has operated these living labs - we call them NavCenters - based on a patent which integrates the physical environment, work processes and technology augmentation into an OS for humans working in teams. This work required that we develop a “language” that facilitates the observation and sharing of a set of phenomena, related to mind-like processes, human collaborative interactions and creative work cycles, that were previously neglected. We also had to not only design but also manufacture the components of the physical environments in which the work took place - other environments, then and now, lack critical feature necessary for in depth facilitation of human cognitive processes. Other than influencing a few software programs, designing a new OS architecture that was never implemented (the CyberCon Executive System), our use technology has been limited to how we configure off-the-shelf systems and components and integrate them into the entire work process and environment. over 25 years we have employed almost every generation of pc and media equipment produced by a wide variety of manufactures. |
| Nearly from the beginning of MG Taylor, we had a clear THERE vision of technology. In every environment we have built, we sought to implement as much of this as was technologically and economically feasible in the HERE of each one. We call this Design/Build/Use - a rapid prototyping process conducted by the application of our own METHOD, doing real work for real clients performed in our environments through multiple iterations of work. This process - we call it the “3 Cat Process” - tightly binds people who often work in isolation either unaware of or disrespectful of the work of others because of conceptual, social or organizational conventions. This multidisciplinary rigor works to eliminates the information gaps prevalent in intellectual ghettoes. |
| Over 200,000 people from organizations of all types have participated in multi day events exploring and solving problems of all kinds. All regions of Earth, disciplines and people from all walks of life and cultures have been involved. |
| Iteration, recursion and feedback combined with environments of agents and agency, rule-sets (algorithms) evolved through millions of discrete exercises organized as modules in an emergent process, has shown the ability to consistently deal with the requisite variety issue and produce solutions to complex, systemic, global-scale problems. These results have been accomplished at a quality of result and time compression here-to-fore thought impossible. |
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Matt Taylor
in flight: San Francisco to Nashville
January 5, 2005
SolutionBox voice of this document:
VISION • STRATEGY • EVALUATE
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posted: January 6, 2006
revised: January 9, 2006
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(note: this document is about 10% finished)
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