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		<title>Hyper-Immediacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, IU&#8217;s New-Media expert Christian Briggs tried to enlighten me on the ontological and psychological aspects of &#8220;immediacy&#8221; &#38; &#8220;Hyper- immediacy&#8221; but as you can make out from the big words it took me some time to come up to speed. The points he made were still confusingly fresh when I saw:

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Last week, IU&#8217;s New-Media expert <a title="twitter  @briggzay" href="http://twitter.com/briggzay">Christian Briggs</a> tried to enlighten me on the ontological and psychological aspects of &#8220;immediacy&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Hyper- immediacy&#8221; but as you can make out from the big words it took me some time to come up to speed. The points he made were still confusingly fresh when I saw:</p>
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<p>The video just hit he nail on the head. So I deduced my own layman definition of Immediacy &amp; hyper-immediacy, for designers:</p>
<p>All interaction is though a medium. We seek the interactions to be immediate, for achieving this we try to reduce the need for a medium. The lesser the dependence on a medium &#8211; the more &#8220;immediate&#8221; is the interaction . Eventually the goal is to achieve hyper-immediate (no medium required) interaction.<br />
What <a href="http://www.zong.com/zong/">Zong</a> is trying to do here is two fold:</p>
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<li>Reduce the number of steps involved ( one always remembers the phone number; a credit-card has to be found in the wallet at the other end of the room.)</li>
<li>You no longer have to travel the psychological distance of giving out the credit card to the infinite web. ( I know, I know. There are issues with giving out the phone number too &#8211; but I hope you get the point of : medium, distance &amp; immediacy.)</li>
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<p>If you want an even simpler definition &#8211; My designer friend in Dubai always said &#8220;I design for my lazy self.&#8221;</p>
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