I have graduated from State University of New York, Buffalo (SUNY, Buffalo) with Master of Architecture title. To tell the truth, being a graduate student does not make me as proud as stating that I was a part of Situated Technology Research Group! Just to keep every one of us in the same page, I would like to briefly explain the research group’s intent. “Situated Technology” is a jargon developed in this specific university. It refers to the technology advancements used in architectural spaces at situated locations to make the space interactive and dynamic. The technology dealt in this research is specific to computers and electrical techniques. Though the huge topic was summarized very shortly in the previous few lines, the course totally deals with all the different history milestones, movements which advanced the computerized environments, the theories which gave good fundamental studies for the research group like the theory of cybernetics by Norbert Wiener to the ubiquitous computing by Mark Weiser. It educates the students to a level where they can propose interesting interactive spaces and can also make scaled mock up interactive models using different softwares and techniques.
