Extensions and customization

• Discussion: extension and customization

  • Extensions change your experience transparently, instead of drawing our attention to the object itself. While an API is something that exposes specific ways of interacting with a system, shielding the system from direct manipulation, an extension is generally something that is integrated directly with a system.
  • Remember the Goffman reading. How do these things fit together?
    • • Joanne McNeil guest lecture, the dream must be continuous

• Examples

  • Making an invisible layer on top of normal social space, you have to know the code or have the extension to see it.
    • ShiftSpace
    • Handkerchief Code, Handkerchief code key
    • Situationist and Inneract
  • Making the world appear to you the way you want it to be
    • Artzilla
    • Greg Leuch, Shaved Bieber
    • Happy Tube
    • Ben Grosser, Facebook Demetricator
    • Addie Wagenknecht, Girls vs Git
    • Wendy Jacob, Explorer's Club
    • http://www.accessibleicon.org/
    • MAICgregator
  • Helping you to fit in
    • Peiying Lin, Guiltless Excuses
    • Kelly Dobson, Scream Body
  • Providing a means of expression not normally possible (body/communication extension)
    • Krzysztof Wodiczko, Dis-armor
    • Krzysztof Wodiczko, Porte Parole
    • EyeWriter
    • Marc Owens, Virtual Transgender Suit
    • Jonas Loh, Amae Apparatus
    • Gerard Rallo, Devices for Mindless Communication
  • Communicate / share your experience with others
    • MIT, Age Suit
    • Sputniko, Menstruation Machine
  • See self through different perspective
    • Marc Owens, Selfless Mirror
    • Marc Owens, Avatar Machine
    • Julius von Bismarck, Top Shot Helmet
    • Micha Cardenas, Becoming Dragon
  • Connecting people in a way they might not normally be connected
    • Brian House, Tanglr
    • Jonas Lund, We See In Every Direction
    • Jonas Lund, Selfsurfing and Public Access Me
    • Haha, Purse
    • Gerard Rallo, Expression Dispacher
    • The Green Eyl, Call Me Choke Me
    • Jae Yeop Kim, The Messenger
  • instruction pieces

• Chrome browser extension resources

  • http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/getstarted.html
  • chrome extension overview: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/overview.html
  • debugging tutorial: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/tut_debugging.html
  • more extension samples: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/samples.html
  • chrome APIs to interact with browser: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/api_index.html
  • other APIs: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/api_other.html
  • chrome extension developers’ guide: http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/devguide.html
  • gmail API library
  • publishing your extension: https://developers.google.com/chrome/web-store/docs/publish