24 February 2015
Metadata – The real danger
In the previous post I talked about biometrics and in particular of facial recognition. Data extracted through these systems are surely more reliable than data got through other systems of surveillance so, even if still potentially dangerous, an automation of surveillance systems based on biometrics would be much more acceptable than a system which gets its data through tracking paths…
23 February 2015
Social objects for energy saving – part II
My area of interest for the social object project is how people interact with the environment, their behaviour toward energy, in particular electrical energy and their concern about energy saving.
Hence, the starting point of my research is not really sustainable design, which is a filtered way to see the issue, being a field where these concerned have already been…
23 February 2015
Facial recognition and autonomous weapons
Most of technological developments have been improved first of all for military purposes and often used as/for weapons. The reason is in most of the cases is the high cost of researches, experimentations and first prototypes, which usually can be covered only by governments funding for military purposes. Thus, weapons are incredibly developed, but current issue in big discussion regards …
20 February 2015
Facial recognition
With news nowadays referring to a war on terrorism and threatening protagonists living hidden around us, the theme of surveillance and public identification is often in the spotlight. Governments are seeing the growth of fear, due to recent terrorist attacks in Europe, as a good reason to intensify surveillance systems. Many people, though are concerned about their privacy, which would…
16 February 2015
Social objects for energy saving
For my next major project, my task is to create a social object using physical computing as an agent.
But, what is it a social object?
“The Social Object, in a nutshell, is the reason two people are talking to each other, as opposed to talking to somebody else.”
Hugh Macleod
The cartoonist Hugh MacLeod is the man who popularized…
14 February 2015
The Interaction Pyramid
The interaction pyramids qualifies interaction design projects, into four classes, technological, social, critical and pataphysical. The structure of a pyramid means that projects sitting on an higher step will generally have properties from lower steps.
The first step, Technological regards almost all the projects of interaction design, as it is assumed that some technology is present in it. The second…
14 February 2015
Design Thinking and Speculative Design
The CEO of IDEO, Tim Brown in the last years has been focusing on design thinking, so that he his also running a blog regarding exclusively this topic.
Here is one of his most famous talks, where he urges designers to think big, to focus on more important things than fashionable little objects and so to redefine the function of…
4 February 2015
Luna, the smart mattress cover
Luna is an accessory which analyzes our sleep’s data and tells us how to improve it.
It is the world’s first mattress cover which can detect a range of information during our hours of rest and communicate it through an app.
The idea comes from three Italians, currently living in San Francisco, who reached five times the budget required for…
22 January 2015
This is the blog
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