So it looks like the face-detection engine has a really short memory. That is, if we turn our heads for a short while (like turn and talk to a team member), the face is removed and the attention level is reset. So I need to re-do my milestone deadlines and try to figure [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Attention Meter Snag…
February 26, 2008
Privacy Protection
February 21, 2008
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/20/infrared-leds-make-y.html
A method of defeating CCTV cameras using LEDs.
MAGIC Broker
February 20, 2008
When I skimmed this I was very scared, as I thought someone had already wrote about Prospero, but then I realized it was just a simple interaction framework. And by simple, I mean pretty trivially simple . Still an interesting read.
http://www.magic.ubc.ca/wiki/pmwiki.php/Projects/MAGICBroker
Five Pitfalls: To avoid privacy issues
February 20, 2008
Users can increase their awareness about the privacy implications of a technical system:
If they understand the extent of the system’s capabilities
If they can conduct socially meaningfully actions in the system
Authors have identified five common pitfalls to avoid while designing information system. The pitfalls have been gleaned from the authors’ experience in designing a privacy preferences [...]
Public Displays with History as Social Memory
February 19, 2008
This is more of a jot for myself. I am not going to provide too much detail. But let’s imagine we can keep a ‘history’ on public displays. Either a history of who’s been near it, a history of what’s been put on it, etc..
How does this element of ‘time’ change the functionality of public [...]
Reality Mining
February 19, 2008
http://reality.media.mit.edu/
This is an interesting project that also had a lot of bluetooth co-occurance. If we choose to do something with the co-occurance data, this could be an interesting place to start.
Ubicomp Design Patterns
February 19, 2008
Jason Hong has a nice PDF full of design patterns for ubicomp. Although this reference is not complete it’s a nice place to start, to understand the types of applications that have been built, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/projects/ubicomp-design-patterns/Ubicomp%20Pattern%20Bus%20Maps.ppt
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/projects/ubicomp-design-patterns/ubicomp_patterns.pdf
Spinner Project
February 19, 2008
capturing video to make narratives in real time.
http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/spinner/spinner_livevideo.mpg
http://www.media.mit.edu/resenv/spinner/index.html
Blue States
February 19, 2008
http://relationalspace.org/
A project in 2006, to link people using bluetooth signal co-occurance. I think this was just the start, but imagine if we did the sme thing with our bluetooth scanning technology. We could very easily build co-occurance networks using the data we can gather with our scanner rigs.
VPN Access
February 19, 2008
Hung says that he can’t connect to our server on port 3000. The fix is to use the VPN. You can learn more about Michigan’s VPN at: http://www.itcom.itd.umich.edu/vpn/
