Alien Presence Detector – Background
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The idea for the Alien Presence Detector dates back to the mid-2000s. Hermes II, a system of small door-side screens had been placed around InfoLab21 in Lancaster University. Each unit also had a camera and microphone which could be used for video/audio messages as well as hand-written notes. This pervasive network of devices was an unusual, perhaps unique, research platform at the time, so we were looking for other research opportunities for this flexible infrastructure. We wanted to use the sensing potential of the system, but in ways that respected privacy and did something a little different. From this the idea of the Alien Presence Detector was born! Read more at: https://alandix.com/labs/alien-presence/
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- 1. Alien Presence Detector background envisionment Alan Dix https://alandix.com/labs/alien-presence
- 2. Hermes2 @ Lancaster small screens beside each office door to post notices for visitors or for visitors to leave messages
- 3. each screen has a camera and microphone for leaving video messages
- 4. a powerful and flexible infrastructure maybe other uses for pervasive mic & cameras
- 6. use audio or video movement to create real-time activity map of busy areas atrium
- 7. active badges infra-red flashes detected by cameras Roy Want, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- 8. create automatic diary find colleagues W. Newman, M. Eldridge, M. Lamming (1991) PEPYS: Generating Autobiographies by Automatic Tracking. maybe you don’t want to be found only those who wear a badge are tracked mistermundo from Torrance, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- 9. let’s turn things around … Jason clendenen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- 10. all present atrium use cameras to detect everyone in building also detect active badges badge no badge
- 11. alien presence atrium then remove everyone who has a badge badge no badge
- 12. alien presence atrium then remove everyone who has a badge badge no badge leaving only the alien presences!
- 13. active badges – wear a badge to be seen alien presence detector – wear a badge to be invisible
- 14. active badges – wear a badge to be seen alien presence detector – wear a badge to be invisible
- 15. Alien Presence Detector background envisionment Alan Dix https://alandix.com/labs/alien-presence
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