Design Patterns for Digital Identity

Exploring Digital Selves:

Dr Steven WarburtonKing’s College London

Digital identity SymposiumBritish Library8th January 2010

my personal spacemy professional space

my social life

my lifestylemy ego

my memories

If you do not take care of your digital identity, somebody else will.

“Have three Asperger's boys in S1 class - never a dull moment! Always offer an interesting take on things.”

Digital ID

Fixed

Access

Identity theft

Security

Digital Self

Mutable

Performance

Reputation

Control

DIMENSIONS OF DIGITAL IDENTITY

… a technologically mediated extension of the self formed from any available electronic data that references ‘you’

what I say about myself

what others say about me

data exchanged through machine-machine and human-machine interactions

Today, in the Age of the Individual, you have to be your own brand … the CEO of Me Inc.

The brand called youhttp://tinyurl.com/3dwlu8/

http://www.slideshare.net/tijs/personal-branding-09-presentation

Strand 1 – study the successful practices that individuals already employ when creating, developing and managing their digital identity

How can we manage our our digital identity?

Strand 1 – Identify successful practices for creating, developing and managing their digital identity.

Strand 2 – Develop a tool to help support individuals in identity based transactions.

Design Patterns approach

Europass-based CV builder

What kind of knowledge can we share?

How do we elicit it?

In what form do we capture and transfer it?

Other AreasMany authors and titles.

Pedagogy, Social Action, HCI, Virtual Worlds, Learning, Collaboration, Assessment, Web design, Usability, Project Management

2009

Gang of FourDesign Patterns: Elements of Reusable.Object Orientated Software.

Object Orientated Software Design 1995

Christopher AlexanderThe Timeless Way of Building.A Pattern Language: Towns , Buildings, Construction.

Architecture 1977

Design patterns and pattern languages

1. Capture and re-use expert design knowledge

2. Establish common terminology and language

3. Provide the necessary level of abstraction for solving novel problems

Why design patterns?

Problem Solution

Context

159...LIGHT ON TWO SIDES OF EVERY ROOM

When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.

Therefore:

Locate each room so that it has outdoor space outside it on at least two sides, and then place windows in these outdoor walls so that natural light falls into every room from more than one direction.

(Alexander et al., 1977)

Participatory Pattern Workshops

Participatory pattern workshops

Case-story workshop

Engender collaborative reflection among practitioners by a structured process of sharing narratives of successful practice (STARR)

Three Hats

Table-top Concept Mapping

Pattern Mining workshop

Identify commonalities across case-stories and abstract transferable design knowledge in a semi-structured form

Paper 2.0

Force Mapping

Force MappingActorsBeliefsConditionsDesires

Future Scenarios workshop

Validate design patterns by applying them to new problem scenarios in real contexts

Pattern Mapping

Poster Session

Digital Identity Panic

Facet Me Leaving Trails

Putting Children First

Permissioned Aggregation

Purposeful Delay

Space for Lurking

What is My Name

Digital Identity Pattern Collection at http://purl.org/planet/Main/

Me Risk

Safety Others

Wear your skillsIdentity Placemaking

Identity Before Collaboration

Identity Placemaking

Putting Children First

Permissioned AggregationConsiders

Leads to

Is extended by

Acknowledgements:

The Pattern Language Network (Planet) project was a collaboration between Leeds Metropolitan University, Coventry University, Glasgow Caledonian University, King’s College London and London Knowledge Lab. It was funded by JISC under the Users and Innovation Programme. For more information see http://patternlanguagenetwork.org

Learning Patterns was a Jointly Executed Integrating Research Project of the Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence. It was co-directed by Dave Pratt, from Warwick university, and Niall Winters from the London Knowledge Lab. Additional partners were: The Freudenthal Institute, the Educational Technology Lab, Dept of Education, University of Athens, Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche, Centre for Research in IT in Education (CRITE), Trinity College Dublin and the Faculty of Education at the IT University of Göteborg.

For further work on the PPW project please also see Yishay Mor and Niall Wintershttp://www.slideshare.net/yish

Funded by Eduservhttp://www.rhizomeproject.org

3. It is impossible to control every context

2. The reader is ultimately the one who determines the meaning

1. A map not a picture, our perspective is only ever partial

Three stubborn facts

Self

Dialectic

Identity

PersonInternal External

Identification

Other Collective

IDENTITY FRAMEWORK(after Jenkins, 2004)

Similarity

Difference

Impact of digital identity on …

Reputation

Transitions

Digital literacy

Sense of agency