Transcript How the Internet works?

How the Internet works?
Museum Re-design Project
Masataka Nakaue
Chika Ando
Overview
Concept
“How the Internet works”
 Bird’s eyes view of the WWW
 Micro-view of the WWW services
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Target Audience
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Middle school student
Venue
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The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose
March 12, 2003
Stanford University
EDU229C “LDT Seminar”
Nakaue and Ando
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Observation Findings
- Children’s Discovery Museum -
Effective use of sound and moving objects
Spatial design for a natural flow of people
Safety, durability and maintenance
Take a look; take a closer look
Interact first; then read the explanation
Learn social rules
March 12, 2003
Stanford University
EDU229C “LDT Seminar”
Nakaue and Ando
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Discussion
Why People go museums
 Satisfy innate curiosity
 Intrinsically motivated to learn
 Seek new experiences
What is unique about learning in museums
 Large-scale, cutting-edge, hands-on exhibits
 Learning to be constructed over time
 Connect cutting-edge scientists and feature scientists
March 12, 2003
Stanford University
EDU229C “LDT Seminar”
Nakaue and Ando
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Concept
Uncover the inner workings of the Internet
OSI reference model
 TCP/IP packet communication
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General goals
Increase basic understanding of the Internet
 Enhance technological literacy and problemsolving skills
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March 12, 2003
Stanford University
EDU229C “LDT Seminar”
Nakaue and Ando
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Learning goals
1) How packets are created in the OSI
reference model
2) Port and address in the TCP/IP
protocol
3) FTP and HTTP services to publish and
browse the Internet contents
March 12, 2003
Stanford University
EDU229C “LDT Seminar”
Nakaue and Ando
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“Digital Guest Book”
Client side
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Take a photo and write messages
Set a port number and destination
Observe encoding process
Upload and track your packets across the WWW
Server side
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See decoding process
Download web-contents
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Stanford University
EDU229C “LDT Seminar”
Nakaue and Ando
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Design principles
Mystery and discovery
Intuitive operation “play first then read”
Social interaction – within a group
Narrative – facilitated by others
Visualization – tangible & graphics
Contexts – reinforcing future experience
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Stanford University
EDU229C “LDT Seminar”
Nakaue and Ando
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Design challenge
Usability vs. Learnability
Bad design deteriorates learnability, but …
Make it tangible vs. show the real
architecture
Museums show “a fake”
Continual updating
Can museums showcase the future?
March 12, 2003
Stanford University
EDU229C “LDT Seminar”
Nakaue and Ando
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