#datacollector

[barcdescanner-blog]

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[dailycreepy-blog]

Every minute for three months, GM secretly gathered data on 90,000 drivers' radio-listening habits and locations

On September 12th, GM’s director of global digital transformation Saejin Park gave a presentation to the Association of National Advertisers in which he described how the company had secretly…

[swimmingwitherika]

Data Collector

This mascot embodies and represents the five human senses - Sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. While we are in Hobart, it might be easy to dismiss certain data that we cannot see. Opening other avenues of data collection through not only video or photography, but through sound recordings and tactile experiences as well, can be helpful in informing us more about our site. As designers, we tend to be occularcentric, giving precedence to the visual experience. With four other senses at our disposal, how else can we experience, document and design for the site?

By: James, Jeff, Nick, Erika

[georgiarchi-blog]

DATA COLLECTOR

Generally, collecting data allows us to get an understanding of the site from a human’s perspective. The different techniques of critical analysis conducted in the fish city studio allow us to understand the site not only from this human perspective, but also from the environment and animals’ perspectives as well. Similarly to the notion of fiction vs non-fiction, we will consider, explore and push the boundary of observation of usual and unusual physical, experiential and cultural factors.

Overall, this collage is important in reminding us to think out of the box while collecting the data, to work as a group, and to have fun while doing it.

Group members: Georgia, Jane, Wooseong, Haoxin, Matt

[suryaray-blog]

Watchers, carers, and administrators: the smart homes of tomorrow

How smart should a smart home be before it's worthy of the name? To date, perhaps the term has been too readily applied to homes that are merely high-tech. Automated systems, remote control of appliances from mobile devices, TV and phone over IP—these are all welcome breakthroughs. These technologies are almost synonymous with the smart home and so-called intelligent buildings in general, but there's little or no intelligence to them. For a home to be considered smart, it must in a sense become a robot—a machine capable of, if not true intelligence (and certainly not sentience), _sensing_ data, processing it, drawing conclusions of its own accord, and then acting upon those conclusions. It's a distinction which Diane Cook of Washington State University's School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is acutely aware of. Her research into smart homes goes well beyond presence-detecting light switches, IPTV, and automated garage doors. Cook is interested in homes that to all intents observe their residents and make decisions on their behalf for their own wellbeing. In some cases these decisions are simply for the purposes of convenience: one job less for the homeowner or their family. In other cases these may be decisions that, for a variety of possible reasons, the resident is incapable of making on their own. It's research that raises not only possibilities, but ethical questions and difficulties. Ars spoke to Cook about her work, and about the field of research more generally, to find out what sort of decisions our homes may be making for us in the not-too-distant future. Read the comments on this post http://dlvr.it/1Rnl04