Lesson 1 writeup

Design communicating presence

-Logging activity whenever you come into contact with something and reproducing/broadcasting it
-AudioBoo, Latitude
-Socially networked communication. Online impression of a person differing from their real presence?
-Social suicide-killing facebook and other social applications. Now blocked by facebook supposedly!
Danah Boyd; young adult use of social networks. Papers. Researcher. Ethical stances
Clay Shirky- ‘here comes everybody’. Society, industry etc.
Objectives
Exploring ideas for social networks
-Photography, audio/video recording using outside input guided by a ‘filter’. Sending out questionnaires, retrieving data.
-Installation
-Purpose?
-Tracking: oyster, credit card, nectar
-3d printer
-drawing/time/visualisation
List automated systems that respond to a physical presence
TV, Compliance,
Critical Mass-use digital network
BBC BIG SCREEN project#
Idea cards are on the wiki
Screen outside Barclays in central
3. Not for profit or corporate gain. Completely free to use and participate in.

Meet space

13 jan. 1.30. train station

The use of latitude to ‘ping’ geographical locations could be integrated into a social networking system to create the sense of virtual presence. Where a user is able to link their actions to their location, it increases the potential of the receivers’ experience. Not only can textual and audiovisual material be shown, but rather than a description of the users location, they can be visualised on a map.

Context of use and creating a new system rather than converging the old is very important as although the brief calls for putting multiple systems into use to create meaning, using the old may create something which essentially already exists.

Means of investigation:
Video-blogging, podcasting, commercial broadcasting.

Podcasting is a simple system of creating an online presence through video and audio. Podcasting is a continuous stream of videos, that can be used to gain an insight into an aspect of a person, their views or more importantly their expertise. Rather than isolated videos on a blog, podcasting suggests regular and traceable online activity.

-continuous capture and broadcasting of CCTV systems and the monitoring of them
Occasionally footage is captured but not monitored and used for archival purposes in case something actually happens
In shops and other locations, the footage is monitored and occasionally displayed to the cutomers on large screens so that they know that they are being monitored. I am not entirely sure if this type of footage is indeed monitored as well as displayed but it’s quite likely
Face recognition could also be implemented and perhaps it helps monitor the traffic-sales ratio

For fun: Hidden camera tv shows