MA Seminar Lecture Resources

Resources for my Media Arts Seminar guest lecture Nov. 5, 2013. var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-34125234-4']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); document.addEventListener("keydown", keyHandler); function keyHandler(e) { console.log(e.keyCode); if(e.keyCode == 78) { document.getElementById("nextSlide").click(); } }

[maseminar2013]

Facebook may start tracking all your cursor movements on the site.

I assumed this was happening already.

[maseminar2013]

Minority Report (2002)

[maseminar2013]

[maseminar2013]

WSJ: Article from June 2012 about the new Wi-fi tracking pitch from marketing firms

NYT: Article from July 2013 about Nordstrom's adoption of the technology and termination of use based on customer concerns

[maseminar2013]

Screenshot of Retailnext's interface. The software pairs video tracking with your phone. The manufacturer claims that it can differentiate male, female, adult, and child, and returning or new customers. 

[maseminar2013]

Euclid analytics from a coffee shop tracking "dwell time" telling how long customers spend in the coffee shop.

[maseminar2013]

Sample data generator

[maseminar2013]

The Mechanical Turk 1770

Chess playing automaton. 

[maseminar2013]

McDowell: We kept coming across this with the futurists who would say, “Well, you know in 50 years, your pets will be mutants. You’ll be able to do a hybrid between a cat and a dog.” And Steven kept saying, “It’s too sci-fi, the audience will never believe it.”

"Inside Minority Report‘s ‘Idea Summit,’ Visionaries Saw the Future"

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/minority-report-idea-summit/

[maseminar2013]

Privacy glasses

[maseminar2013]

Google picks up team that built Android data-collection tool

Google has acquired Behavio, a small team of people that has developed a framework for collecting various types of data from Android phones.  

[...]

Funf includes probes for collecting data from GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, the cell tower ID, browser history, contacts, running apps, installed apps, and battery status. But the Funf framework lets developers build custom probes for anything they want.

[maseminar2013]

The business of collecting location information began in 2003, when Boston-based Skyhook Inc. launched and began the practice of "wardriving"—cruising around in cars to collect information about Wi-Fi hotspots. Comparing the names and signal strengths of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots against a database allows for a cellphone's location to be determined within 100 feet, in many cases, Skyhook says.

In 2007, Google began building its own Wi-Fi database, using the StreetView cars. Last year, Apple switched from using Skyhook and began creating its own database of Wi-Fi points for use on its newest phones, although it still uses Skyhook data for older phones and Macintosh computers.

WSJ: Apple, Google Collect User Data

see also:

Wired: Why and How Apple Is Collecting Your iPhone Location Data

and:

NYT: Google Says It Collects Location Data on Phones for Location Services

[maseminar2013]

Waze’s mapping and traffic information are built off the contributions of 70,000 volunteer map editors and some 15 million active users.

After Waze, What Else Can Mobile Crowdsourcing Do?

[maseminar2013]

Inner workings revealed in early 1820s

Turns out people were behind the computations all along.

TED talk about various uses of Amazon's Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing framework and some talk on data visualization.

[maseminar2013]

Chicago History Museum crowd sourced content contest

Besides competing for the honor of selecting a future Chicago History Museum exhibit, contestants (anyone who submits and/or votes) will be eligible to win a weekend for two at the Palmer House Chicago and a membership to the Chicago History Museum. 

[maseminar2013]

City of Boston's Citizen Connect app

[maseminar2013]

Portland Smells was meant to be more of an art project than a public utility. That is, until a local government representative contacted me regarding a project that was being built out (now available at whatsinourair.org) to help report and monitor illegal chemical dump sites in the Portland area. Apparently the functionality created for Portland Smells was greatly needed for social and environmental justice. 

MaxOgden's Blog