we must avoid the feature creep
try to focus with the AOF method
1. focusing on the primary activity makes “the I rule” (kathy sierra) easier and creates passionate users. study the activity closely goal: tons of music breadcrumbs in the physical room, activity: tag music in locations, task: leave breadcrumbs through your phone & find other ones.
2. the social object the breadcrumbs, turfs or the specific places
3. what are the actions people perform on the object and important enough to add, defines what activity goes on, interactions between people and what can and can not happen.
nouns (objects) and verbs (actions)
song listen, play, share, love, hate, pass on, dance, drink, chill, add to playlist, save, store,
nouns social activity
song buying together, listening, discussing, dancing,
I think it is important to think about the personal value that joshua talks about with del.icio.us. the main purpose was memory, later came discovering that made it all social.
jyri engeström says that there are to much focus on the net working part and to little on the social objects that connects us all together. (this is most definitely what our project is about)
