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NYT: Feed the Meter; See It Light Up (But Still Expire) (1996)
"the next frontier may be forged by a hacker determined to trip up the electronic meters, which are not foolproof."
via:mayonissen  parkingmeter  technology  networked  ubicomp 
march 2011 by Urbanscale
AppleInsider: Microsoft's Sidekick/Pink problems blamed on dogfooding and sabotage
Utterly fascinating, if you can get through the thicket of jargon and geekspeak: a vivid and pungent cautionary tale about the cloud.
ubicomp  FAIL  knowyourenemy  business  technology 
october 2009 by Urbanscale
NYT: Another Landlord Worry: Is the Elevator Kosher?
Interesting to note: A rabbinical panel rules that elevator cars that "know" how many people are aboard constitute a desecration of the Jewish Sabbath. Whither the instrumented city? Gonna get tough to be an observant Orthodox Jew.
(nyc)  jewness  urbancomputing  ubicomp  everyware  humangeography 
october 2009 by Urbanscale
Loca
Drew Hemment's 2004 interactive art project bringing home the impact of pervasive surveillance. I remember seeing this and loving it and then forgetting what it was called.
surveillance  art  ubicomp  everyware  drewhemment 
september 2009 by Urbanscale
PJF's Pages: Dark Stalking on Facebook
Acquiring data about FB users with extremely tight privacy settings via their observed propagated effects on other, more accessible users. Telling.
ubicomp  privacy  socialnetworking 
september 2009 by Urbanscale
Freedom to Tinker: Netflix's Impending (But Still Avoidable) Multi-Million Dollar Privacy Blunder
"Researchers have known for more than a decade that gender plus ZIP code plus birthdate uniquely identifies a significant percentage of Americans (87%, according to Latanya Sweeney's famous study)."
privacy  ubicomp  identity  ethics 
september 2009 by Urbanscale
russell davies: ruricomp
Worth it just for the line "Are Helvetica and leaves mutually exclusive?"
rural  ubicomp  ubiquitousmeansubiquitous  humangeography  design 
september 2009 by Urbanscale
Podcast | dConstruct 2009
Here's my talk from dConstruct in Brighton a few weeks back. My goodness, I do go on. This is an absolutely sprawling talk! Check the tags for some idea of content.
augmented  architecture  API  cities  community  connoisseurship  crime  crowds  democracy  kultur  economics  futures  geography  identity  infovisualization  infrastructure  interface  location  maps  mobility  neighborhoods  networks  opensystems  publicspace  privacy  socialnetworking  swarm  transit  technosocial  ubicomp  urbancomputing  urbanism  wayfinding 
september 2009 by Urbanscale
YouTube: Nearest Tube Augmented Reality App for iPhone 3GS
Via Chris Palmieri, an actually-useful, available-right-now iPhone augmented reality application that shows nearby London Tube stations superimposed on the world in front of you. Very, very nice.
augmented  mobile  ubicomp  everyware  urbancomputing  london 
july 2009 by Urbanscale
Engadget: SPRXmobile's Layar is world's first Augmented Reality browser for cellphones
Not much given to "world's first"-anything hype - nor Engadget links about anything at all, for that matter - but this looks potentially big.
augmented  mobile  everyware  ubicomp 
june 2009 by Urbanscale
Jim Mielke: Digital Tattoo Interface
Like you didn't see this one coming. A provocation, but only just.
interface  everyware  ubicomp  tattoo  bodypolitique 
june 2009 by Urbanscale
CitySense
Matt Welsh's urban sensor network project - source of the anecdote about hospitals, explicit air-pollution data and liability.
ubicomp  urbancomputing  everyware 
may 2009 by Urbanscale
Nokia Point & Find
The correct idea, maybe even named correctly...but implemented with typical hamfistedness. ("Use Nokia Point & Find to generate new leads, drive participation, and hit your market potential in a pioneering, new way"? HURL.)
everyware  ubicomp  nokia  sigh 
april 2009 by Urbanscale
France Culture: LES BELLES CAPTIVES Contemporaines
Valérie Chatelet and Daniel Kaplan spieling everyware on French radio. Stoked.
france  ubicomp  everyware 
march 2009 by Urbanscale
Future Vision Montage
Microsoft's vision for 2019: Clean, attractive people in clean, attractive environments using clean, attractive interfaces. Aspirational much?
microsoft  knowyourenemy  ubicomp  everyware  interface  interactiondesign  interestingtimes 
march 2009 by Urbanscale
MetaFilter: Help the police
"Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations." Not even sure this could be implemented, let alone enforced; either way, awful precedent.
ubicomp  everyware  networks  surveillance  securitystate  opensystems  bad 
february 2009 by Urbanscale
Orange Cone: Smart Things: an outline
Huzzah! Mike's long-awaited tome on the design of ubiquitous user experiences begins to take shape.
ubicomp  everyware  mikekuniavsky 
february 2009 by Urbanscale
NYT: Prop 8 Donor Web Site Shows Disclosure Law Is 2-Edged Sword
Hmmm. Well, for the most part I approve of Prop 8 backers getting a taste of what hate feels like - after all, they're perfectly happy to legislate it for others. But you know I've gotta draw the line at actionable harassment and intimidation. Anyway, point is: didn't I tell you this was going to happen?
ubicomp  everyware  politics  privacy  maps 
february 2009 by Urbanscale
Josien Pieters Showcase: Between you me and the wall
Wallpaper as ambient notification. Nicely resolved; most appropriate for family or other small-group environments, I'd think.
ubicomp  everyware  ambient 
february 2009 by Urbanscale
Is it "OMG Finally" for Augmented Reality?
Via Timo. If these screenshots are from live, running code, then I'd say the mobile-AR bar has been raised pretty significantly. Also tends to validate the idea that Android is a friendly toybox/toolkit for stuff like this.
ubicomp  everyware  mobile  augmented 
january 2009 by Urbanscale
confectious: Visionary disasters
Liz may have gotten over her rage, but I haven't. Who thought this fucking video was a good idea? Me and my combat boots would like to have a quick word with you.
everyware  ubicomp  knowyourenemy  today'syesterday'stomorrows 
december 2008 by Urbanscale
Orange Cone: Materials, cloud computing, ubicomp and service design
I don't always wind up agreeing 100% with what Mike puts out, but this certainly bears some mulling over: "[S]ervice design is what links cloud computing and ubicomp. It meets industrial/interaction design at the device/service interface."
mikekuniavsky  ubicomp  everyware  servicedesign  tehcloudz 
december 2008 by Urbanscale
cataspanglish: Podcast with AG
Discount the flattery, but do listen to this...it's a fun conversation. In Part 1 (of 2), we discuss the zine tradition, corporate Situationism, whether people need to be afraid of ubiquitous computing, and a whole bunch more.
everyware  ubicomp  nokia  punkrock  personal 
november 2008 by Urbanscale
7.5th Floor: Outcomes of the Visualizar Workshop Database City
Fabien on the highlights of the Visualizar workshop. I really wish I had seen some of this stuff, "Murmur Madrid" particularly.
urbancomputing  urbanism  everyware  ubicomp  madrid  infovisualization 
november 2008 by Urbanscale
Laundry View
Information processing in the service of the mundane.
ubicomp  everyware 
september 2008 by Urbanscale
Future of Internet Search: Mobile version
Mobile device as aperture. Some nice thought here, i.e. very much the right idea, even if the form factor is a bit off. (Even the behaviors seem quite logical and practically doable given the right background semantics.)
ubicomp  everyware  interface 
august 2008 by Urbanscale
Jan Chipchase: Great To See You. Just Not Around Here
"Someday you'll be OK with it." Well, maybe not. But the generation after? Sure, why not. They'll have fundamentally different conceptions of privacy and - most likely - civil liberties.
publicspace  ubicomp  everyware  location  janchipchase 
july 2008 by Urbanscale
LUCI Blog: The smart home for the homeless
The seam between ubicomp and homelessness, very provocative.
ubicomp  urbancomputing  sidewalking 
july 2008 by Urbanscale
NYT: Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Records
Because there's no way IP address-tagged queries can be resolved to individuals...
privacy  surveillance  securitystate  everyware  ubicomp 
july 2008 by Urbanscale
NYT: Billboards That Look Back
I fully endorse campaigns of sabotage and vandalism where such things are concerned.
advertising  surveillance  knowyourenemy  ubicomp  everyware 
may 2008 by Urbanscale
Report on the Real-Time Cities Round Table
Fabien's final report on the MIT SENSEable Cities Lab event he organized last month.
urbancomputing  ubicomp  everyware  bookproject  fabiengirardin 
may 2008 by Urbanscale
of this we are sure: Providence in the FAIL of a Sparrow
"But if you want to start talking about some serious cross-disciplinary pollination then you better take both sides of that disciplinary divide seriously." Hot diggity.
ubicomp  architecture  materiality  complexity 
may 2008 by Urbanscale
Infomania!
Neat documentary about the politics and ethics of RFID and similar everyware technologies.
everyware  ubicomp  rfid 
may 2008 by Urbanscale
The New Yorker: Up and Then Down
"Their destination-dispatch system is integrated with the security system; it reads your I.D. card at a turnstile and assigns you to an elevator. 'The next phase of this is face-recognition biometrics.'" Also, the last line rings so very true.
everyware  ubicomp  biometrics  verticaltransport  urbancomputing  technosocial  proxemics 
april 2008 by Urbanscale
Intel Makes a Push Into Pocket-Size Internet Devices
“We need to deliver an Internet experience that is like the desktop,” said Sanjay Jha, Qualcomm’s chief operating officer. “People are used to the Internet, and you can’t shortchange them.” WRONG. FAIL.
mobile  intel  qualcomm  everyware  ubicomp 
april 2008 by Urbanscale
BECTA: Emerging Technologies for Learning
Uh...me, actually, on approaches to context- and location-aware educational technology, for the UK gov't. Cites area/code, otherwise recapitulates many "Everyware" arguments. Enjoy.
education  learning  technology  location  ubicomp  everyware 
april 2008 by Urbanscale
Younghee Jung: surveillance techniques
"Do you check your surroundings before you decide to quickly pick your nose, or adjust your underwear nowadays?"
surveillance  design  ubicomp  everyware  securitystate  seoul  london  helsinki  tokyo  youngheejung 
march 2008 by Urbanscale
NYT: Paper Is Out, Cellphones Are In
"Now, with 80 percent of passengers using these self-service options, the next step is [turning]...hand-held devices and mobile phones of travelers into their boarding passes."
everyware  ubicomp  nfc  barcodes 
march 2008 by Urbanscale
The RFID Ecosystem Project
UW’s Gaetano Boriello explicitly cites Bentham’s panopticon as an *inspiration*.
rfid  ubicomp  everyware  urbancomputing 
march 2008 by Urbanscale
Spatial Law
Via Jamie. "Legal issues associated with geospatial data and technology."
geography  law  space  kultur  everyware  ubicomp  location 
february 2008 by Urbanscale
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