ICT itself now accounts for 10% of global energy demand - and climbing - controlling this impact is not yet a factor in systems design or in most CS curricula. I’m drawn by Computer Science's potential for addressing large scale societal challenges, such as climate change. In this talk I firstly offer a glimpse at the insights for Ubicomp and human-computer system design through the lens of our recent studies of energy use in the home, and of mobile data demand; and secondly, discuss ways in which we might evolve such systems to more profoundly challenge ‘the normal way’ energy is used.
Towards Open Pervasive Displays (Keynote at Tekes UbiSummit, May 2011)Adrian Friday
Adrian Friday discusses opening up pervasive displays to allow more interactive content and applications. The current system uses channels to devolve control of content to trusted user groups, which has been successful. However, moving forward will require addressing challenges such as scale, personalization vs privacy, monetization, and supporting a global network of displays and developers. This could enable a wide variety of applications from local events to global issues. The goal is to transform spaces from passive advertising to places that reflect communities through globally shared content and applications.
MAGIC Broker 2 (MB2) is an open-source platform for building Internet of Things (IoT) applications from compositions of things like sensors and devices. It provides a lightweight architecture with channels representing entities that can publish/subscribe to events, store state and content, and access services. Developers found MB2's pub/sub model and REST API simple to use for creating interactive applications across multiple domains like displays, sensor networks, and sustainability projects. Lessons learned include improving support for metadata and event histories in channels.
1000% The highs and lows of Entertainment and IT in the homeAdrian Friday
Rather than focus on household or appliance level disaggregation of energy use in domestic settings, in our recent work we have begun to explore how energy use supports the services of everyday life. Our 'service based' quantification of energy use helps explain dramatic variations in direct energy impact for similar practices, e.g. 2 orders of magnitude between the lowest and highest consuming ways of achieving 'entertainment and IT'. In this talk we reveal the hidden impacts of IT devices due to their emergent uses and increased interconnectedness, and the challenges these pose for us in creating next generation hardware and software for a lower carbon future.
Talk from Computing for a sustainable future, Royal Society Workshop, 1:30 pm on Monday 30 September 2013
http://royalsociety.org/events/2013/sustainable-computing/
Quantifying our understanding of energy use itu may 2013Adrian Friday
In this talk we report on our recent studies of energy use and cooking in the home. Using a pioneering method combining fine grained accounts from embedded sensing combined with qualitative interview data we uncover how everyday life intersects with energy demand and GhG externality. Our work enables us to shed light on where eco-feedback interventions could be aimed and raises questions about existing approaches based on 'smart grid' enabled energy portals and in home energy displays. In the second half of the talk we suggest how the detailed study of cooking reveals new opportunities for HCI and Ubicomp design.
Technobiophilia: Sue Thomas, The Future of Cyberspace, Professorial Lecture, ...Dr Sue Thomas
The act of entering cyberspace was, along with the entering of outer space, one of the most profound experiences of the twentieth century. In 1969, humans landed first ‘on’ the moon (July), and then ‘in’ cyberspace (September) with the connection of the first two nodes of the internet. Today the mountains of the Moon remain neglected and unexplored, but cyberspace has evolved into a deeply familiar habitat whose geography has been shaped by those who built and used it. This talk explores the evolution of the landscape of cyberspace from its creation as an unpopulated wilderness through its exploration, colonisation, cultivation, settlement and growth, and offers some predictions for the future of this most exotic place.
Sue Thomas is Professor of New Media at the Institute of Creative Technologies in the Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities. She has written several books including the novel 'Correspondence', short-listed for the 1992 Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and most recently the 2004 non-fiction cyberspace travelogue 'Hello World: travels in virtuality'. She has written about computers and the internet since the 1980s and is now working on 'Nature and Cyberspace: Stories, Memes and Metaphors', a study of the relationships between cyberspace and the natural world, forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. She co-directs the influential Transliteracy Research Group and the DMU Transdisciplinary Group, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
www.technobiophilia.com
This document presents a proposal for a project called "Be Here Now" that aims to help people reconnect with nature and simple pleasures by creating a device called "Windowsill." The device would integrate a camera into a flower pot and bird feeder to automatically take photos at sunrise, sunset, and noon, as well as when a bird lands. The photos would be streamed to social media feeds to provide a daily reminder of the natural world right outside one's window. The product would use technology like Arduino and have a physical component attached to a window.
Introducing the Internet of Things: lecture @IULM UniversityLeandro Agro'
This document discusses the Internet of Things (IoT) and how connected devices and sensors will continue to proliferate and connect physical objects to the internet. It notes that while internet access is widespread, the number of connected objects is still small compared to unconnected objects. It envisions that the next revolution will be connecting previously unconnected objects and networks of sensors. It discusses how technologies like mobile phones, social networks, open hardware, and self-tracking are enabling more connectivity between people, devices, and data. The size of the IoT market is forecasted to grow exponentially in the coming years.
Towards Open Pervasive Displays (Keynote at Tekes UbiSummit, May 2011)Adrian Friday
Adrian Friday discusses opening up pervasive displays to allow more interactive content and applications. The current system uses channels to devolve control of content to trusted user groups, which has been successful. However, moving forward will require addressing challenges such as scale, personalization vs privacy, monetization, and supporting a global network of displays and developers. This could enable a wide variety of applications from local events to global issues. The goal is to transform spaces from passive advertising to places that reflect communities through globally shared content and applications.
MAGIC Broker 2 (MB2) is an open-source platform for building Internet of Things (IoT) applications from compositions of things like sensors and devices. It provides a lightweight architecture with channels representing entities that can publish/subscribe to events, store state and content, and access services. Developers found MB2's pub/sub model and REST API simple to use for creating interactive applications across multiple domains like displays, sensor networks, and sustainability projects. Lessons learned include improving support for metadata and event histories in channels.
1000% The highs and lows of Entertainment and IT in the homeAdrian Friday
Rather than focus on household or appliance level disaggregation of energy use in domestic settings, in our recent work we have begun to explore how energy use supports the services of everyday life. Our 'service based' quantification of energy use helps explain dramatic variations in direct energy impact for similar practices, e.g. 2 orders of magnitude between the lowest and highest consuming ways of achieving 'entertainment and IT'. In this talk we reveal the hidden impacts of IT devices due to their emergent uses and increased interconnectedness, and the challenges these pose for us in creating next generation hardware and software for a lower carbon future.
Talk from Computing for a sustainable future, Royal Society Workshop, 1:30 pm on Monday 30 September 2013
http://royalsociety.org/events/2013/sustainable-computing/
Quantifying our understanding of energy use itu may 2013Adrian Friday
In this talk we report on our recent studies of energy use and cooking in the home. Using a pioneering method combining fine grained accounts from embedded sensing combined with qualitative interview data we uncover how everyday life intersects with energy demand and GhG externality. Our work enables us to shed light on where eco-feedback interventions could be aimed and raises questions about existing approaches based on 'smart grid' enabled energy portals and in home energy displays. In the second half of the talk we suggest how the detailed study of cooking reveals new opportunities for HCI and Ubicomp design.
Technobiophilia: Sue Thomas, The Future of Cyberspace, Professorial Lecture, ...Dr Sue Thomas
The act of entering cyberspace was, along with the entering of outer space, one of the most profound experiences of the twentieth century. In 1969, humans landed first ‘on’ the moon (July), and then ‘in’ cyberspace (September) with the connection of the first two nodes of the internet. Today the mountains of the Moon remain neglected and unexplored, but cyberspace has evolved into a deeply familiar habitat whose geography has been shaped by those who built and used it. This talk explores the evolution of the landscape of cyberspace from its creation as an unpopulated wilderness through its exploration, colonisation, cultivation, settlement and growth, and offers some predictions for the future of this most exotic place.
Sue Thomas is Professor of New Media at the Institute of Creative Technologies in the Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities. She has written several books including the novel 'Correspondence', short-listed for the 1992 Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and most recently the 2004 non-fiction cyberspace travelogue 'Hello World: travels in virtuality'. She has written about computers and the internet since the 1980s and is now working on 'Nature and Cyberspace: Stories, Memes and Metaphors', a study of the relationships between cyberspace and the natural world, forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. She co-directs the influential Transliteracy Research Group and the DMU Transdisciplinary Group, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
www.technobiophilia.com
This document presents a proposal for a project called "Be Here Now" that aims to help people reconnect with nature and simple pleasures by creating a device called "Windowsill." The device would integrate a camera into a flower pot and bird feeder to automatically take photos at sunrise, sunset, and noon, as well as when a bird lands. The photos would be streamed to social media feeds to provide a daily reminder of the natural world right outside one's window. The product would use technology like Arduino and have a physical component attached to a window.
Introducing the Internet of Things: lecture @IULM UniversityLeandro Agro'
This document discusses the Internet of Things (IoT) and how connected devices and sensors will continue to proliferate and connect physical objects to the internet. It notes that while internet access is widespread, the number of connected objects is still small compared to unconnected objects. It envisions that the next revolution will be connecting previously unconnected objects and networks of sensors. It discusses how technologies like mobile phones, social networks, open hardware, and self-tracking are enabling more connectivity between people, devices, and data. The size of the IoT market is forecasted to grow exponentially in the coming years.
Lifelogging is the practice of tracking personal data generated by our own behavioral activities in continuous digital streams. As it is slowly becoming mainstream, it raises a lot of intriguing questions and thoughts.
Lifelogging and self-tracking are altering the Futures of:
Memory,
Remembering,
Forgetting,
Storytelling,
Privacy,
Law enforcement,
Governance,
Bodies,
and our very Humanness.
This report explores these questions, thoughts and futures.
This document discusses the concept of the "Internet of Things" and how connecting everyday objects to the internet through sensors and communication capabilities could help address issues like environmental monitoring and sustainability. Specifically, it proposes a system that uses small wireless sensors powered by trees to monitor forests for fires, with the data transmitted between sensors and to a command center. It advocates for an open Internet of Things to give people a direct role in measuring issues like air pollution and climate change in order to motivate solutions.
QR Codes, Location Based Services, & Augmented Reality for Libraries Lauren Pressley
The document discusses augmented reality technology and its potential applications and impact on libraries. It begins with definitions of augmented reality and discusses how it can overlay digital information on the physical world. It then explores how augmented reality may change how people access information as new technologies emerge. The document also discusses the relationship between augmented reality and information literacy skills. It provides examples of current augmented reality applications like QR codes, location-based services, and browser-based augmented reality before discussing the potential impacts on library services and how libraries can start connecting physical and digital resources through augmented reality.
The Charity Engine is a project that harnesses the unused computing power of internet-connected computers and devices around the world to form a volunteer computing grid. This grid would be over 10 times more powerful than the world's fastest supercomputers combined. The Charity Engine aims to incentivize participation through regular $1 million prize drawings for volunteers. It would also donate $1 million regularly to top international charities. With just 2% of the world's PCs participating, the Charity Engine grid could transform scientific and medical research while having minimal costs and environmental impact by utilizing existing hardware.
This document summarizes Eilidh Dickson's final project exploring how personal informatics can help people feel like they have a more balanced life. Through user research, Eilidh identified three key themes: communication with family/friends, food/eating habits, and personal prioritizing/planning. She focused on prioritizing, where insights included people only sharing important calendar events, wanting to be productive when logging activities, feeling silly scheduling personal time but interested in tracking activities, and needing reminders of priorities. Eilidh's design challenge is to help people prioritize to feel more balanced as busy lifestyles make priorities difficult to maintain.
This document discusses four emerging technologies - nanotechnology, genetic engineering, nuclear technology, and artificial intelligence - that could potentially lead to scenarios destroying human society if not properly controlled and utilized. It outlines both pros and cons of each technology, including how tiny robots or engineered bacteria could spread uncontrollably with nanotechnology, how modifying genes could create new diseases or human-eating animals with genetic engineering, how nuclear weapons or power plant disasters could cause mass destruction, and how advanced artificial intelligence may eventually outsmart and overtake humans. The document warns that humanity's exploration of small, unknown areas through these technologies risks an "end of days" scenario.
Today, our technology is aiming to achieve IoT all around the world. The main focus of IoT is convenience through connectivity. From home security to your personal health management. However, before accepting this new exciting idea, we should be aware the reason why some people are hesitant of adopting it entirely.
Artificial Intelligence in Biodiversity and Citizen ScienceKatina Michael
This document discusses examples of using artificial intelligence and citizen science for biodiversity monitoring and conservation efforts. It provides examples of using computer vision technologies like drones, cameras, and sensors to collect visual data on animals, plants, and ecosystems. Citizen scientists can help collect and analyze large amounts of multimedia data to help researchers and decision-makers. However, it also raises questions about privacy, ownership of data, potential over-surveillance of wildlife, and ensuring data quality when relying on non-experts. Overall, the document examines the opportunities and challenges of new technologies for environmental monitoring while relying on public participation through citizen science.
Zeus Electronics is a full-stack development studio that has created profitable and reliable solutions since 2006 to help clients achieve large audiences and growth. Contact Cleaner is a Mac app that allows one-button cleaning of contacts by merging and removing duplicate contacts safely. Content Armor Player is an app that securely plays media files by encrypting them and only allowing access with a unique password. Electronic Beats is an iOS app and media company that aims to keep users informed about electronic music through interviews, live event coverage, and a 24/7 radio station.
The document summarizes a presentation about citizen science projects run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It discusses how citizens can help gather and submit bird observation data through projects like eBird and Bird Sleuth to help scientists study and conserve bird populations. It also describes how the Bird Sleuth program provides curriculum and resources to help educators engage students in citizen science through bird observation and investigation projects.
Episode 4: 21st Century global brains and humano-technical cyborgs - Meetup s...William Hall
1) Technological convergence is merging human biology and cognition with various sensor, effector, cognitive, and communication technologies through interfaces like smart devices, implants, and neural links.
2) Moore's law is enabling more intimate human-computer interfaces like smart contact lenses, neural implants, and brain-computer interfaces that can control prosthetics.
3) Mapping the human brain's functional organization and simulating its processing through neuromorphic architectures allows cognitive convergence where brain activity can control external devices wirelessly through increasing bandwidth.
The document discusses several technological game changers for 2011-2012:
1. The role of the CIO will change to focus more on business technology and innovation rather than just IT support.
2. Consumerization of IT will continue as mobility and cloud applications become more prevalent. Knowledge workers will be "always on" using a variety of personal and enterprise applications.
3. Strategies will shift from technology-focused to business process-focused, recognizing that technology alone does not drive business value.
The document argues these changes will significantly impact how individuals and enterprises use and manage technology over the next few years.
Tinker Tayler Solder Pi – UX Scotland 2016Stuart Tayler
My talk from UX Scotland 2016. This tells the story of a connected device I created for my family. While UX designers are often taught not to design for themselves, through the process I learned a number of lessons about prototyping that are transferrable to other Internet of Things (IoT) projects. During the prototyping phase I also gained first-hand insight into the relationship between Service Design and IoT and the value that Service Design has to offer to connected devices.
The theories of our changing climate article discusses how global warming may be contributing to recent record cold temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere. It explains that the Gulf Stream ocean current system, known as the Great Conveyor Belt, transports warm water from the South Atlantic northward, keeping Europe and eastern North America relatively warm. However, an influx of cold, fresh water from melting glaciers and ice caps could disrupt this current system, shutting it down and reducing the transport of warm water to northern regions within a few years. While global warming is causing issues like sea level rise and stronger storms, it may also be a factor in the abrupt cooling being experienced in some northern areas.
This document contains the agenda and presentation slides from a workshop on using social media for the U.S. Census. The presentation discusses the current social media landscape, defines social media, examines concerns about social media use in government, and provides examples of how other government agencies like NASA, the White House and the Smithsonian are successfully using social media. The presentation aims to demonstrate how building relationships, focusing on people over tools, reaching people where they are online, and establishing trust are key to an effective government social media strategy.
Kate Sicchio and Camille Baker are exploring ways to "hack" physiological data from the body and create new visual and performance feedback using mobile devices (1). Their project "Hacking the Body" involves gathering internal body data like breath and blood volume and creating artworks using sensing systems and audiovisual technology (2). They plan to adapt to new technologies and create generative pieces using custom software, sensors, and mobile apps (3).
Transforming IT Into Innovating Together is a presentation by Tom Soderstrom, CTO of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The presentation discusses 9 emerging IT trends and how JPL is innovating to take advantage of them. The trends include: 1) Extreme collaboration made simple through knowledge sharing and social networking, 2) The pervasive cloud and using cloud computing, 3) Becoming more eco-friendly, 4) Refocused cyber security, 5) Consumer driven IT, 6) Apps over programs, 7) Immersive visualization and interaction, 8) Big data and handling large datasets, and 9) Understanding human behavior through technology. The presentation provides examples of how JPL is already innovating in
Ideagen age friendly sector dundalk 2010 event reportthreesixty
There seems to be some frustration with the level of spending by government agencies like Enterprise Ireland and the HSE on connected health and telehealth initiatives versus the fragmented results that have been achieved so far. Some potential responses are:
- Large initiatives take time to implement properly and yield results at a systemic level. It's still early days for many of these investments and programs.
- Interoperability and standards are challenging issues that require coordination across many stakeholders, from technology providers to healthcare organizations to policymakers. Resolving these problems will help maximize the impact of investments.
- More could potentially be done to facilitate partnerships between funded projects/companies to help integrate solutions and accelerate real-world adoption. Ensuring funded solutions work well together
This document discusses the negative effects of excessive smartphone and digital device usage. It notes that people now spend more time on their devices than sleeping, and feel panicked without their phones. Heavy usage can cause physical issues like bad posture and eye strain, as well as psychological dependence. While digital connectivity has benefits, the document advocates setting limits on screen time, turning off notifications, using password locks, and quitting apps to promote healthier habits and real-world social interaction instead of constant connectivity.
The document lists 26 video clips from a filming session around a campfire, noting the length and comments on the potential usefulness of each clip. Many of the clips ranging from 20 seconds to over 3 minutes are deemed possibly useful apart from issues with lighting or camera stability, while a few under 10 seconds are considered too dark or short to be useful.
Una tabla hash no puede utilizar objetos directamente como claves, ya que estos no tienen un método hashCode definido. Es mejor definir claves propias con un tipo de dato primitivo o String, y calcular el código hash a partir de ellas usando una función de dispersión. Dicha función podría sumar y multiplicar los caracteres de una cadena clave modificada por un tamaño de tabla para devolver una posición de almacenamiento única.
Lifelogging is the practice of tracking personal data generated by our own behavioral activities in continuous digital streams. As it is slowly becoming mainstream, it raises a lot of intriguing questions and thoughts.
Lifelogging and self-tracking are altering the Futures of:
Memory,
Remembering,
Forgetting,
Storytelling,
Privacy,
Law enforcement,
Governance,
Bodies,
and our very Humanness.
This report explores these questions, thoughts and futures.
This document discusses the concept of the "Internet of Things" and how connecting everyday objects to the internet through sensors and communication capabilities could help address issues like environmental monitoring and sustainability. Specifically, it proposes a system that uses small wireless sensors powered by trees to monitor forests for fires, with the data transmitted between sensors and to a command center. It advocates for an open Internet of Things to give people a direct role in measuring issues like air pollution and climate change in order to motivate solutions.
QR Codes, Location Based Services, & Augmented Reality for Libraries Lauren Pressley
The document discusses augmented reality technology and its potential applications and impact on libraries. It begins with definitions of augmented reality and discusses how it can overlay digital information on the physical world. It then explores how augmented reality may change how people access information as new technologies emerge. The document also discusses the relationship between augmented reality and information literacy skills. It provides examples of current augmented reality applications like QR codes, location-based services, and browser-based augmented reality before discussing the potential impacts on library services and how libraries can start connecting physical and digital resources through augmented reality.
The Charity Engine is a project that harnesses the unused computing power of internet-connected computers and devices around the world to form a volunteer computing grid. This grid would be over 10 times more powerful than the world's fastest supercomputers combined. The Charity Engine aims to incentivize participation through regular $1 million prize drawings for volunteers. It would also donate $1 million regularly to top international charities. With just 2% of the world's PCs participating, the Charity Engine grid could transform scientific and medical research while having minimal costs and environmental impact by utilizing existing hardware.
This document summarizes Eilidh Dickson's final project exploring how personal informatics can help people feel like they have a more balanced life. Through user research, Eilidh identified three key themes: communication with family/friends, food/eating habits, and personal prioritizing/planning. She focused on prioritizing, where insights included people only sharing important calendar events, wanting to be productive when logging activities, feeling silly scheduling personal time but interested in tracking activities, and needing reminders of priorities. Eilidh's design challenge is to help people prioritize to feel more balanced as busy lifestyles make priorities difficult to maintain.
This document discusses four emerging technologies - nanotechnology, genetic engineering, nuclear technology, and artificial intelligence - that could potentially lead to scenarios destroying human society if not properly controlled and utilized. It outlines both pros and cons of each technology, including how tiny robots or engineered bacteria could spread uncontrollably with nanotechnology, how modifying genes could create new diseases or human-eating animals with genetic engineering, how nuclear weapons or power plant disasters could cause mass destruction, and how advanced artificial intelligence may eventually outsmart and overtake humans. The document warns that humanity's exploration of small, unknown areas through these technologies risks an "end of days" scenario.
Today, our technology is aiming to achieve IoT all around the world. The main focus of IoT is convenience through connectivity. From home security to your personal health management. However, before accepting this new exciting idea, we should be aware the reason why some people are hesitant of adopting it entirely.
Artificial Intelligence in Biodiversity and Citizen ScienceKatina Michael
This document discusses examples of using artificial intelligence and citizen science for biodiversity monitoring and conservation efforts. It provides examples of using computer vision technologies like drones, cameras, and sensors to collect visual data on animals, plants, and ecosystems. Citizen scientists can help collect and analyze large amounts of multimedia data to help researchers and decision-makers. However, it also raises questions about privacy, ownership of data, potential over-surveillance of wildlife, and ensuring data quality when relying on non-experts. Overall, the document examines the opportunities and challenges of new technologies for environmental monitoring while relying on public participation through citizen science.
Zeus Electronics is a full-stack development studio that has created profitable and reliable solutions since 2006 to help clients achieve large audiences and growth. Contact Cleaner is a Mac app that allows one-button cleaning of contacts by merging and removing duplicate contacts safely. Content Armor Player is an app that securely plays media files by encrypting them and only allowing access with a unique password. Electronic Beats is an iOS app and media company that aims to keep users informed about electronic music through interviews, live event coverage, and a 24/7 radio station.
The document summarizes a presentation about citizen science projects run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. It discusses how citizens can help gather and submit bird observation data through projects like eBird and Bird Sleuth to help scientists study and conserve bird populations. It also describes how the Bird Sleuth program provides curriculum and resources to help educators engage students in citizen science through bird observation and investigation projects.
Episode 4: 21st Century global brains and humano-technical cyborgs - Meetup s...William Hall
1) Technological convergence is merging human biology and cognition with various sensor, effector, cognitive, and communication technologies through interfaces like smart devices, implants, and neural links.
2) Moore's law is enabling more intimate human-computer interfaces like smart contact lenses, neural implants, and brain-computer interfaces that can control prosthetics.
3) Mapping the human brain's functional organization and simulating its processing through neuromorphic architectures allows cognitive convergence where brain activity can control external devices wirelessly through increasing bandwidth.
The document discusses several technological game changers for 2011-2012:
1. The role of the CIO will change to focus more on business technology and innovation rather than just IT support.
2. Consumerization of IT will continue as mobility and cloud applications become more prevalent. Knowledge workers will be "always on" using a variety of personal and enterprise applications.
3. Strategies will shift from technology-focused to business process-focused, recognizing that technology alone does not drive business value.
The document argues these changes will significantly impact how individuals and enterprises use and manage technology over the next few years.
Tinker Tayler Solder Pi – UX Scotland 2016Stuart Tayler
My talk from UX Scotland 2016. This tells the story of a connected device I created for my family. While UX designers are often taught not to design for themselves, through the process I learned a number of lessons about prototyping that are transferrable to other Internet of Things (IoT) projects. During the prototyping phase I also gained first-hand insight into the relationship between Service Design and IoT and the value that Service Design has to offer to connected devices.
The theories of our changing climate article discusses how global warming may be contributing to recent record cold temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere. It explains that the Gulf Stream ocean current system, known as the Great Conveyor Belt, transports warm water from the South Atlantic northward, keeping Europe and eastern North America relatively warm. However, an influx of cold, fresh water from melting glaciers and ice caps could disrupt this current system, shutting it down and reducing the transport of warm water to northern regions within a few years. While global warming is causing issues like sea level rise and stronger storms, it may also be a factor in the abrupt cooling being experienced in some northern areas.
This document contains the agenda and presentation slides from a workshop on using social media for the U.S. Census. The presentation discusses the current social media landscape, defines social media, examines concerns about social media use in government, and provides examples of how other government agencies like NASA, the White House and the Smithsonian are successfully using social media. The presentation aims to demonstrate how building relationships, focusing on people over tools, reaching people where they are online, and establishing trust are key to an effective government social media strategy.
Kate Sicchio and Camille Baker are exploring ways to "hack" physiological data from the body and create new visual and performance feedback using mobile devices (1). Their project "Hacking the Body" involves gathering internal body data like breath and blood volume and creating artworks using sensing systems and audiovisual technology (2). They plan to adapt to new technologies and create generative pieces using custom software, sensors, and mobile apps (3).
Transforming IT Into Innovating Together is a presentation by Tom Soderstrom, CTO of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The presentation discusses 9 emerging IT trends and how JPL is innovating to take advantage of them. The trends include: 1) Extreme collaboration made simple through knowledge sharing and social networking, 2) The pervasive cloud and using cloud computing, 3) Becoming more eco-friendly, 4) Refocused cyber security, 5) Consumer driven IT, 6) Apps over programs, 7) Immersive visualization and interaction, 8) Big data and handling large datasets, and 9) Understanding human behavior through technology. The presentation provides examples of how JPL is already innovating in
Ideagen age friendly sector dundalk 2010 event reportthreesixty
There seems to be some frustration with the level of spending by government agencies like Enterprise Ireland and the HSE on connected health and telehealth initiatives versus the fragmented results that have been achieved so far. Some potential responses are:
- Large initiatives take time to implement properly and yield results at a systemic level. It's still early days for many of these investments and programs.
- Interoperability and standards are challenging issues that require coordination across many stakeholders, from technology providers to healthcare organizations to policymakers. Resolving these problems will help maximize the impact of investments.
- More could potentially be done to facilitate partnerships between funded projects/companies to help integrate solutions and accelerate real-world adoption. Ensuring funded solutions work well together
This document discusses the negative effects of excessive smartphone and digital device usage. It notes that people now spend more time on their devices than sleeping, and feel panicked without their phones. Heavy usage can cause physical issues like bad posture and eye strain, as well as psychological dependence. While digital connectivity has benefits, the document advocates setting limits on screen time, turning off notifications, using password locks, and quitting apps to promote healthier habits and real-world social interaction instead of constant connectivity.
The document lists 26 video clips from a filming session around a campfire, noting the length and comments on the potential usefulness of each clip. Many of the clips ranging from 20 seconds to over 3 minutes are deemed possibly useful apart from issues with lighting or camera stability, while a few under 10 seconds are considered too dark or short to be useful.
Una tabla hash no puede utilizar objetos directamente como claves, ya que estos no tienen un método hashCode definido. Es mejor definir claves propias con un tipo de dato primitivo o String, y calcular el código hash a partir de ellas usando una función de dispersión. Dicha función podría sumar y multiplicar los caracteres de una cadena clave modificada por un tamaño de tabla para devolver una posición de almacenamiento única.
La tabla hash implementa el método hashCode() de la clase Mercancía para insertar nuevos elementos. Para insertar, se llama a hashCode() y se aplica el módulo con el tamaño de la tabla. Para buscar, la función de conversión convierte el código de la mercancía a un entero y también se aplica el módulo con el tamaño de la tabla.
On January 16, 2007 at 2:00 PM, a crane accident occurred while unloading a yacht from the cargo ship MV Madame Butterfly at Berth 3 & 4 in Port Hueneme, California. The 72-foot Sunseeker Predator yacht, loaded on December 23, 2006 in Southampton, UK, was being lifted off the ship by the vessel's 300-ton crane when the crane boom contacted the yacht during the operation.
This document is a resume for Nadim M. Al Khodor. It lists his career objective as seeking a position where he can utilize his 4 years of sales experience to increase profitability and sales volume. It provides details on his education and work history in sales management roles at various companies in Lebanon. It also lists his certificates, computer skills, languages, and offers to provide references upon request.
Betty the curious cow heard a loud crash while eating grass and decided to investigate. She found farmer Joe had knocked over a tree with his tractor to build a new milking shed. Farmer Joe explained his plan to Betty, and he constructed a beautiful new shed for milking the cows. Betty was pleased with the new shed and always waited at the front of the line to be milked.
The actor release form grants Casey Bennett permission to photograph, record, and use Harvey Kemish's likeness for the student film "Arabella". Harvey Kemish agrees to adhere to the agreed upon schedule and make himself available for potential reshoots if needed. Harvey Kemish signs to certify he understands the release form and the permission it grants regarding his involvement in the student film.
The document provides information about panel examples from D&AD in 2015. D&AD held panel examples that year, but in a different format than previous years. The panel examples from D&AD in 2015 featured a changed format compared to earlier years.
Este documento lista varias representaciones artísticas de escenas de la Pasión de Cristo, incluyendo la Oración en el Huerto, la Sagrada Cena, el Camino del Calvario, la Crucifixión y la Resurrección. También menciona algunas advocaciones marianas como Nuestra Señora de los Dolores y Virgen de la Alegría.
Bar Refaeli is an Israeli supermodel, television host, and actress. She has been modeling since the age of 14 and has appeared on the covers of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, Elle, and Maxim. Refaeli is considered one of the most popular supermodels in the world and has been involved in campaigns for brands like Under Armour, Passionata, and Accessorize.
O documento apresenta 5 casos clínicos sobre doenças reumáticas. O primeiro caso descreve um paciente com poliartrite e tofos sugerindo artrite reumatoide ou osteoartrite. O segundo caso trata de uma paciente com dermatomiosite ou lúpus. O terceiro caso é de fenômeno de Raynaud primário. O quarto caso discute exames relacionados a doenças reumáticas. O quinto caso sugere síndrome de Takayasu com possível sobreposição de polimialgia reumática.
This document lists the names of the 12 months of the year in Swedish. It begins with Mr Januari 2007 and ends with Mr december 2007, listing each month consecutively in Swedish from January through December 2007.
Q5: How did you attract/address your audience?Matilda Dawson
The document discusses gathering feedback on a magazine through surveys and video interviews. It provides details on the questions asked in surveys of people aged 16-19 to get their opinions on the appearance, target audience, and engaging qualities of the magazine. The results showed most people answered "yes" but some answered "no" when asked if the magazine looked like a real one or if the features made them want to read on, indicating improvements could be made.
Presentation by Christopher Fahey (http://www.behaviordesign.com & http://www.graphpaper.com) about the history and uses of "style" as a component of design innovation, specifically with respect to interaction design.
The document discusses how the LEGO Group has nurtured a global brand community by fostering collaboration and co-creation with users. It provides examples of how LEGO has partnered with communities and individuals around the world to develop new products, build user engagement, and inspire creativity with LEGO bricks. The LEGO Group's brand community approach has helped sustain the company and ensure the future of the LEGO play experience.
MENINJAU KEMBALI DEFINISI LOYALITAS PELANGGANMuhammad Trieha
Dokumen tersebut membahas tentang perkembangan era loyalitas pelanggan dari waktu ke waktu, dimulai dari era kepuasan pelanggan, era retensi pelanggan, era migrasi pelanggan, era antusiasme pelanggan, hingga era spiritualisme pelanggan. Dokumen tersebut juga membedah perbedaan antara service dan care serta menjelaskan pentingnya loyalitas emosional pelanggan dibandingkan loyalitas transaksional.
Flupa UX Days 2017 : "What's diffrent about UX for IOT" par Claire RowlandFlupa
Helping users form an effective mental model of the system: what different devices do, and how they are interconnected. When is it appropriate to explain the system model – how things actually work – and when to simplify so they don’t need to concern themselves with technical details?
Effective composition: distributing functionality between devices, to suit the capabilities of the devices and context of use.
Appropriate consistency: how to determine which elements of the design should (and should not) be consistent across different interfaces, considering e.g. terminology, platform conventions, aesthetic styling and interaction architecture.
Continuity: how patterns of connectivity unique to IoT can cause discontinuities in the UX between devices, and how to handle these in the design.
II-SDV 2014 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: New strategies to involve mo...Dr. Haxel Consult
This document discusses new strategies for involving more people in data mining and intelligence extraction through mobile devices and cloud computing. It notes that billions use mobile devices and connectivity is unprecedented. Well-established social media frameworks like Facebook and Twitter could be leveraged. Science apps have traditionally been isolated but cloud-based tools, social media, and mobile devices now open new possibilities to engage more of the world. The document provides examples of tracking epidemics using social media data and deploying scientific protocols and apps to mobile devices through cloud pipelines.
SXSW 2008 - "10 Ways to Green-ifyYour Digital Life"jenschlegel
The document summarizes a panel discussion on greening one's digital life. The panelists discussed current data on energy consumption and e-waste, demonstrated websites and tools to help users reduce their environmental impact, and generated a list of 16 tips. These included automating energy efficiency, sharing resources through networking, producing one's own power, and dealing responsibly with e-waste.
Koomey's talk on energy use and the information economy at the UC Berkeley Ph...Jonathan Koomey
I gave this talk on energy use and the information economy at the UC Berkeley Physics of Sustainable Energy Symposium March 8, 2014. It summarizes what I think are the most important issues related to the direct and indirect effects of information technology on energy use.
20140929 R. GIAFFREDA on IoT future - stakeholders consultation ws brusselsRaffaele Giaffreda
This document discusses improving the Internet of Things (IoT) from a "best effort" approach to a higher quality approach. It notes that while technology advances will continue to increase connectivity, standalone wireless IoT devices remain less reliable than wired counterparts. It argues that improving IoT will require making devices and networks more intelligent and efficient through virtualization, integration aware of application needs, and removing humans from the configuration loop through cognitive approaches. The document also stresses the importance of educating users to address privacy, security and other concerns that could hamper broad IoT adoption.
1) Data is growing exponentially faster than Moore's Law, with an 80% compound annual growth rate compared to Moore's 40%. This growth is straining data center capacity and energy efficiency gains cannot keep up with demand.
2) Ray Kurzweil's "law of accelerating returns" suggests information generation will increase by over 10 million times from 2009 to 2020. This encourages more frequent hardware refreshes and questions the sustainability of keeping ICT hardware for over 3 years.
3) While data centers strive for efficiency through techniques like low PUE, industry predictions suggest data and associated energy usage will grow at rates that may exceed sustainable levels without new technological paradigms or limits on data growth.
UbiComp 2013 Talk on Device Dynamics at HomeFahim Kawsar
1. The paper discusses a study of internet usage patterns in 86 Belgian homes to understand how device usage has evolved over time based on location and activity.
2. The study found that computing has spread beyond traditional locations like desks and is now common in new areas like kitchens and bathrooms. Usage varies by location, time of day, and activity.
3. The findings provide insights into how user preferences and context drive device selection for different activities and locations in the home. This informs the design of future home computing applications.
Using the Second Screen (at IFA Medienwoche 2011)Ex Machina
The document discusses how television, games, and social media are converging through the use of second screens. It notes that people increasingly use other devices like smartphones and tablets while watching television. Several examples are provided of interactive television shows and games that allowed viewers to predict outcomes, vote, and share responses on social media in real-time. The opportunities for blending interactivity, live engagement, and game mechanics with television content are explored.
The document discusses definitions of the Internet of Things (IoT). It provides several definitions from various organizations that describe the IoT as connecting physical objects through standard internet protocols and allowing them to generate, exchange and consume data. The document also discusses the evolution of the IoT through different waves, starting with connecting PCs, then people through mobile/cloud, and the current wave of connecting everything through ubiquitous embedded systems like sensors. Finally, the document outlines some of the key enabling technologies and standards that help make the IoT possible, such as 6LoWPAN, CoAP and IEEE protocols.
Spohrer smarter service systems transdisciplinarity 20141121 v7ISSIP
The document discusses the history and future of artificial intelligence. It provides an overview of key events in AI development from the 1956 Dartmouth Conference to modern applications of cognitive systems. The document also discusses upcoming conferences related to service innovation and transdisciplinary collaboration among researchers and practitioners.
2007 Home Network Global Summit - Seoul, KoreaCABA
The document discusses the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA), a non-profit organization focused on advancing technology in home and building automation. It lists CABA's board of directors and provides information on its research council and recently completed projects related to home automation, networking, and digital media usage.
This document provides an overview of the future of user experience (UX) design. It begins with a short history of interfaces from command lines to graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to more natural interfaces. It then discusses emerging technologies like voice interfaces, gesture interfaces, and the internet of things (IoT). Examples of IoT devices and applications are provided. The document concludes by discussing opportunities and drawbacks of wearable technologies and how they are important as more devices become connected to the internet. Activities are interspersed throughout to have participants design IoT or wearable experiences. The key objectives are to describe the future of technology and UX, discuss why it's important, and learn to design the future in an awesome way
How Technology is Revolutionizing Property AssessmentsEDR
New technologies are being released at breakneck speed. Ones that were once so innovative and exciting at launch are now passé. Technological advances are having a deep impact on the speed, quality and effectiveness of property assessments, giving environmental professionals who use them a competitive advantage. At this webinar, you will learn more about advancements in digital content, mobile, information access, applications, workflow and communications that environmental professionals are using to improve efficiency and respond to pressure for fast turnaround time.
Benefits for attendees:
• Trends from the tech world that are shifting the landscape of how EPs conduct property assessments—and keep clients happy
• Technologies and apps with applicability for streamlining field work
• An inside look at how technologies are quickly changing how EPs do their jobs
• A look ahead to how future technologies will change the workplace for property assessment professionals
Panelists:
• Paul Schiffer, VP, Product Development, EDR
• Duncan Anderson, Business Development Officer, Odic Environmental & Energy
Emerging Experiences - More Personal Computing (MPC) - Tim HuckabyITCamp
Tim Huckaby gave a presentation on emerging technologies and engaged user experiences. He discussed advances in areas like 3D cameras, holographic computers, cognitive services, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He also demonstrated several emerging technologies like a fast food kiosk, a presidential voting app, and Microsoft's HoloLens. Huckaby predicted that within a decade, natural user interface computing will become the norm, like the mouse and keyboard are today.
The document provides an agenda for a discussion on the future of learning and educational technology. It outlines several emerging technologies like augmented reality, BYOD, eBooks, cloud computing, tablets, and microlearning. It discusses issues and benefits of these technologies. It also explores future capabilities of devices like ubiquitous connectivity, personalized content, and multi-sensory interfaces. Examples of developing technologies presented include flexible screens, smart contact lenses, gesture recognition, and power generation from human movement. The document aims to spark discussion on how these technologies may impact and transform learning in the future.
This document contains learning objectives and essential knowledge points related to how computing technologies have impacted communication, collaboration, and problem solving on a global scale. It discusses how technologies like email, video conferencing, social media, cloud computing, and GPS have enabled new forms of communication and collaboration. It also addresses how distributed computing, citizen science, and crowdsourcing have helped solve large-scale problems. Finally, it outlines legal, ethical, and socioeconomic issues raised by widespread access to digital information and computing resources on a global level.
The document discusses the limits of information and communication technologies (ICT) such as computing power, data storage, and network bandwidth. It proposes that future networks will need to scale in both size and functionality through approaches like federation of multiple networks. Cloud computing is presented as a potential approach to tackle these limits by providing on-demand access to shared computing resources over a network in a scalable and elastic manner. However, cloud computing is still associated with many marketing hype and open questions remain regarding its impact and how it can integrate with existing technologies.
The Audioverse In Your Pocket - Invited Talk at ABC Radio National - Harries ...Michael Harries
Public radio, and radio in general, is at risk of disruption by new audio technologies (podcasts, etc). However there are interesting opportunities when a longer-term technology-strategy view is brought to bear.
This presentation is from an invited talk at the Australian ABC Radio National ( August 2009) as part of their strategic process.
Here's how they describe themselves: "With over 60 distinct programs each week, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National is different from any other radio station in Australia. Where else could you hear, for example, an exploration of ideas in science, followed by the latest in books from around the world, then a program about the mind and human behaviour?"
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/
The document discusses several latest trends in information technology, including internet of things, virtual reality, big data analytics, and cloud computing. It provides an overview of each trend, discussing their applications and growth. For example, it notes that the internet of things is expected to include over 212 billion connected devices globally by 2020 and generate trillions of dollars of value, while virtual reality is being used for entertainment, education, medicine and more. Big data is growing enormously due to various factors like the internet of things, and will reach 50 zettabytes by 2020.
Similar to Ubicomp+Sustainability October 2015, Keynote at euc2015 (20)
Where's the value in energy data science? Finding energy savings opportuniti...Adrian Friday
A new arsenal of artificial intelligence and data science tools will unlock massive energy savings and help UK business in their goal of achieving net zero. These cutting-edge algorithms will automatically and continuously sift through a deluge of data and find new insights and recommend ways to slash energy consumption. The Net0Insights project (http://net0i.org) in partnership with industry is working towards this objective. In this talk we will reflect on the challenges of opportunities of making sense of organisations through their energy data footprint. We both identify how these data can be a valuable resource and what organisations need to do to yield more value from it, but also, question whether this very data science/IoT/digital twin approach is a sufficiently large piece of the puzzle of addressing net zero.
Paris ICT & Sufficiency Intervention June 2022.pdfAdrian Friday
Talk to Digital Society Master's class June 10 Université Paris-Cité under their theme of "Towards digital sustainability: slow-tech and digital sufficiency". Fascinating course convened by Pierre NORO, Blockchain for Public Good lecturer.
FlipGig Logistics Chaire Intl Seminar Paris Nov 2022.pdfAdrian Friday
We talk about the gig economy workers experience based on a mix of innovative online methods. We uncover how much they're paid, what their experience and knowledge of the city is. Plus end with some ideas about how we could create better, fairer and more sustainable work for this growing group of gig workers. Implications for platform developers, cities, logistics companies and policy makers.
British HCI - design of energy demand in the home-ajf-11July2022.pdfAdrian Friday
Workshop presentation to British HCI 'designing smart energy futures' workshop (https://bcshci.org/workshop-summaries/#designing-domestic-smart-energy-futures). Focusing on the relationship between energy and the infrastructures we build (which use energy), and how this shapes social expectations and practices - locking in energy demand. Renewables will introduce new variability and limits to what energy is available, and that changes the game!
Advance CRT Keynote - 10 May 2022 - AJF.pdfAdrian Friday
Keynote for https://www.advance-crt.ie - really interesting interdisciplinary doctoral training centre in Ireland. In the talk I address the magnitude of the challenge facing us. Why I believe technology is important in addressing this. Why I think dominant IoT narratives are wrong, and are in fact inherently limited in their view of possible gains and also impacts. I'll then address my thoughts on whether IoT really can help save the planet, and some closing discussion on things to consider to ensure that ongoing and future work is appropriately framed.
About the meal deal card game that simulates gig meal delivery work to highlight some of the challenges these workers face. A collaboration of the flipgig and switch-gig projects. http://www.flipgig.org, https://switchgig.wordpress.com
FlipGig Learning from Gig Workers, April 2022Adrian Friday
Challenges and injustice faced by gig workers. Variation in pay, lack of certainty in work volume, how treated in the city, by restaurants and customers, and by platforms & software. Lack of transparency, also with controlling algorithms and platforms.
This document summarizes a knowledge exchange meeting about digitally transforming last mile parcel logistics in the gig economy. The meeting discussed investigating current gig courier activity and inefficiencies in deliveries and returns. It aimed to explore promoting fairness and sustainability for gig workers. Researchers developed methods to study gig work remotely during the pandemic and uncovered challenges faced by gig logistics workers. They worked with commercial partners and proposed more sustainable approaches like reusing civic assets, leading to a trial in York. The meeting aimed to share learnings with logistics, software, workers, cities, and unions to design more transparent and fair systems for this workforce.
Decarbonising the Last Mile ITS Oct 2021Adrian Friday
In this talk we report on our work with gig economy workers, uncovering ways in which multiple forms of systemic biases arise from the platform's algorithms, customer and business actions and lead to unfairness and unsustainable outcomes. These should be addressed to improve work, conditions and environmental impacts.
The digital economy (e.g. online shopping) is growing rapidly – already £50 billion in 2016 – this has been especially true during COVID, with a growth of online retail of over 30% this year alone. With new `try before you by’ clothing services such as ASOS and Amazon Prime Wardrobe, where any number of clothing items can be ordered for home delivery, and returned ‘for free’, the true environmental costs and impacts on workers are entirely hidden from the consumer. These services have heralded the growth of the platform economy, where an army of gig workers compete for highly variable rewards, and bear many of the infrastructure costs that once would’ve once belonged to an employer. In the flipgig project, we are looking at the role of digital services in this growing workplace and how these can be better designed to empower couriers to fight unfairness, challenge unfair models and algorithms in platform courier work, and develop new models that put fairness and sustainability at the core. In this talk we report on our fieldwork and give a voice to gig economy workers, identifying multiple forms of systemic and unintentional bias arising from being ‘behind the app’.
The climate impact of ICT: A review of estimates, trends and regulations (ISM...Adrian Friday
We examine peer-reviewed studies which estimate ICT's current share of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to be 1.8-2.8% of global GHG emissions. Our findings indicate that published estimates all underestimate the carbon footprint of ICT, possibly by as much as 25%, by failing to account for all of ICT's supply chains and full lifecycle (i.e. emissions scopes 1, 2 and fully inclusive 3). Adjusting for truncation of supply chain pathways, we estimate that ICT's share of emissions could actually be as high as 2.1-3.9%. We explore the argument for and against the role of efficiency gains and green energy in offsetting ICTs global carbon footprint. Whatever assumptions analysts take, they agree that ICT will not reduce its emissions without a major concerted effort involving broad political and industrial action. We provide three reasons to believe ICT emissions are going to increase barring a targeted intervention. We make specific recommendations and pose a set of challenges for those using heavy computation in their research.
Related report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02622
The digital economy (e.g. online shopping) is growing rapidly - already £50bn in 2016 - this has been especially true during COVID, with a growth of online retail of over 30% this year alone. With new `try before you by' clothing services such as ASOS and Amazon Prime Wardrobe, where any number of clothing items can be ordered for home delivery, and returned 'for free', the true environmental costs and impacts on workers are entirely hidden from the consumer. These services have heralded the growth of the platform economy, where an army of gig workers compete for highly variable rewards, and bear many of the infrastructure costs that once would've once belonged to an employer. In the flipgig project, we are looking at the role of digital services in this growing workplace and how these can be better designed to empower couriers to fight unfairness, challenge unfair models and algorithms in platform courier work, and develop new models that put fairness and sustainability at the core. In this talk we report on our fieldwork and give a voice to gig economy workers, identifying multiple forms of systemic and unintentional bias arising from being 'behind the app'.
Understanding Sustainable Food Shopping: Sustainably Minded Shoppers and the ...Adrian Friday
My talk about sustainability in food shopping to SIRACH Network Innovation in Heating and Cooling Seminar, Wed 22nd Oct 2014, i.e. about what drives the need for heating and refrigeration in the first place and why might we want to influence this to reduce our carbon footprint. Starting with the proposition that food is a surprisingly high part of the UK domestic carbon footprint, the talk first showed a fine-grained analysis of typical student diet with measured direct energy impact and estimates of its embodied carbon footprint: to illustrate how the foods chosen are the most significant contributor to diets' carbon footprint, and how typical diets might be limited and repetitive. Second, we reported on how mainstream food increasingly relies on convenience foods and how these foods, and societal conventions (e.g. what is a 'proper' meal anyway) encourage and limit what we repeatedly eat. We then talked about our sustainably minded participants, what they care about, how they evaluate what they eat, and how they develop new capabilities and knowledge for acquiring and preparing sustainable food. We finished by looking at why these choices are complex and why I believe it's important we (and specifically supermarkets) help making these choices more transparent to the consumer and in the supply chain to help promote a more sustainable diet, and why we must act now!
Published work relating to this talk:
A. Clear, M. Hazas, J. Morley, A. Friday, and O. Bates, “Domestic food and sustainable design: A study of university student cooking and its impacts,” in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 2447–2456, 2013.
http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/sds/files/2013/05/clear_hobcam_20131.pdf
More about our work:
http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/sds
Reflections on the Long-term Use of an Experimental Digital Signage SystemAdrian Friday
Talk slides from Ubicomp 2011, Beijing, 20th September 2011 (Session 4 - Near and Far). Based on the paper: Reflections on the Long-term Use of an Experimental Digital Signage System by Sarah Clinch, Nigel Davies, Adrian Friday, Christos Efstratiou.
Paper abstract:
In this paper we reflect on our long-term experiences of developing, deploying and supporting an experimental digital signage system. Existing public display systems almost always feature a single point of control that is responsible for scheduling content for presentation on the network and provide sophisticated mechanisms for controlling play-out timing and relative ordering. Our experiences suggest that such complex feature-sets are unnecessary in many cases and may be counter productive in signage systems. We describe an alternative, simpler paradigm for encouraging widespread use of signage systems based on shared ‘content channels’ between content providers and display owners. Our system has been in continuous use for approximately 3 years. We reflect and draw lessons from how our user community has adopted and used the resulting public display network. We believe that these reflections will be of benefit to future developers of ubiquitous display networks.
Towards Open Pervasive Displays (Keynote at UbiSummit, Helsinki, May 2011)Adrian Friday
We discuss the challenges of opening up networks of public displays to wider control (based on our experiences of eCampus) and postulate what might happen if we open up to applications also (global networks of displays, content and applications, c.f. http://pd-net.org)
Invited keynote on Carbon, Energy and the role of Ubicomp Tokyo-Denki Dec 2010Adrian Friday
In this keynote talk we examine a sample of ubicomp approaches to reducing energy use and question whether there are other areas that can have similar or greater impact.
Learning from ubicomp deployments keio 2010Adrian Friday
The document discusses lessons learned from deploying ubiquitous computing systems based on the author's experience. It describes how real-world deployments uncovered unexpected issues like cell signal fluctuations and lack of remote access. This led to systems failing or not working as intended. The author advocates designing systems to be robust to these kinds of issues through strategies like making components stateless and independent, exploiting persistent storage, and enabling remote access for debugging. The overall message is that deploying systems brings to light challenges not anticipated in the lab and informs the design of deployable ubiquitous computing technologies.
The simplified electron and muon model, Oscillating Spacetime: The Foundation...RitikBhardwaj56
Discover the Simplified Electron and Muon Model: A New Wave-Based Approach to Understanding Particles delves into a groundbreaking theory that presents electrons and muons as rotating soliton waves within oscillating spacetime. Geared towards students, researchers, and science buffs, this book breaks down complex ideas into simple explanations. It covers topics such as electron waves, temporal dynamics, and the implications of this model on particle physics. With clear illustrations and easy-to-follow explanations, readers will gain a new outlook on the universe's fundamental nature.
Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
How to Add Chatter in the odoo 17 ERP ModuleCeline George
In Odoo, the chatter is like a chat tool that helps you work together on records. You can leave notes and track things, making it easier to talk with your team and partners. Inside chatter, all communication history, activity, and changes will be displayed.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Executive Directors Chat Leveraging AI for Diversity, Equity, and InclusionTechSoup
Let’s explore the intersection of technology and equity in the final session of our DEI series. Discover how AI tools, like ChatGPT, can be used to support and enhance your nonprofit's DEI initiatives. Participants will gain insights into practical AI applications and get tips for leveraging technology to advance their DEI goals.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
বাংলাদেশের অর্থনৈতিক সমীক্ষা ২০২৪ [Bangladesh Economic Review 2024 Bangla.pdf] কম্পিউটার , ট্যাব ও স্মার্ট ফোন ভার্সন সহ সম্পূর্ণ বাংলা ই-বুক বা pdf বই " সুচিপত্র ...বুকমার্ক মেনু 🔖 ও হাইপার লিংক মেনু 📝👆 যুক্ত ..
আমাদের সবার জন্য খুব খুব গুরুত্বপূর্ণ একটি বই ..বিসিএস, ব্যাংক, ইউনিভার্সিটি ভর্তি ও যে কোন প্রতিযোগিতা মূলক পরীক্ষার জন্য এর খুব ইম্পরট্যান্ট একটি বিষয় ...তাছাড়া বাংলাদেশের সাম্প্রতিক যে কোন ডাটা বা তথ্য এই বইতে পাবেন ...
তাই একজন নাগরিক হিসাবে এই তথ্য গুলো আপনার জানা প্রয়োজন ...।
বিসিএস ও ব্যাংক এর লিখিত পরীক্ষা ...+এছাড়া মাধ্যমিক ও উচ্চমাধ্যমিকের স্টুডেন্টদের জন্য অনেক কাজে আসবে ...
How to Fix the Import Error in the Odoo 17Celine George
An import error occurs when a program fails to import a module or library, disrupting its execution. In languages like Python, this issue arises when the specified module cannot be found or accessed, hindering the program's functionality. Resolving import errors is crucial for maintaining smooth software operation and uninterrupted development processes.
Ubicomp+Sustainability October 2015, Keynote at euc2015
1. The role of Ubicomp
toward Sustainable
Futures
by Adrian Friday
http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/sds
2. - Mark Weiser, Chief Scientist, Xerox, 1991
“The most profound technologies are those that
disappear. They weave themselves into the
fabric of everyday life until they are
indistinguishable from it."
Chief scientist
XEROX PARC, 1991
3. “Embedded and ubiquitous computing is an exciting
paradigm that promises to provide computing and
communication services to the end users all the time
and everywhere. Its systems are now invading in
every aspect of our daily life and promise to
revolutionize our life”
euc2015 website :)
4. Premise 1: The systems we put in the world
have impact
Pictures removed of ‘electricity pylon’ (direct energy), carbon intensity of
generating it (indirect), manufacture, supply chain and recycling (embodied),
and social change via technology
5. By 2020, McKinsey predicted IT would
be the cause of 1.54 gigatons of
greenhouse gases, or 3 percent of
global emissions. […] comparable to
that from aviation.
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2684616, March 19, 2014
“IDC forecasts that the worldwide market for IoT
solutions will grow from $1.9 trillion in 2013 to
$7.1 trillion in 2020.”
Picture of data centre glowing lights removed
7. Premise 2: The systems we put in the world can
help us understand our energy and CO2e
impacts
8. – Adrian Friday :)
“Not just IT, but the very design of ‘the stuff’ and
infrastructure in our society, is energy
intense…”
Picture of dyson air blade taps vs. (the old way) a towel removed.
9. Premise 3: The systems we put in the world can
help us be more sustainable
10. 1. Energy
in the
home?
Accounting for energy-
reliant services within
everyday life at home,
Pervasive 2012.
Cartoon removed for copyright reasons
11. Impact of
domestic media &
IT on energy use
• The domestic energy
demand of consumer
electronics, digital home
media and computing
devices is on the rise
worldwide (Chetty, 2008)
• In the UK, these devices
comprise about 25% of
the total domestic
electricity demand
(Powering the Nation,
Defra, 2012)
12. 00:00 03:00 06:00 09:00 12:00 15:00 18:00 21:00 00:00
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
Time of day
Power(kW)
Yellow
Blue
Red
Green
Large variation, “same” infrastructure?
4 x 8 person flats. Median whole flat energy (kW), by
time of day - note the baselines (300W-1kW)
Electric
Power
(Kilowatts)
13. How is this variation in
(electricity) demand composed?
And what can we learn from it?
14. DATA DRIVEN METHOD
1. Single-point (whole flat) sensing
(OWL)
2. 200 x Socket-level sensors (Plugwise)
3. Surveys of appliances and devices
4. “Data driven” interviews about use
5. Estimates of embodied emissions due
to manufacturing and transport life-cycle
19. 06:00 12:00 18:00 00:00
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
Timestamp
Electricpower(Watts)
Lighting
Refrigeration
Entertainment & IT
Other cooking appliances
Oven
Repeated patterns of use / habits constitute
energy
Not instantaneous load (Strengers, 2011), need ‘area
under the curve’, c.f. Costanza, 2012
A typical day
21. Digging into media and IT
• Laptops (32)/desktops (3)/phones(34!) are
commonly used for multiple simultaneous tasks,
often related to different practices
• Activities are often intertwined. For example,
instant messaging, email, social media (both
personal & work)
23. Matt
-
Monitor
TV
Stereo
Speakers
Xbox
Video Receiver
Mac mini
Router
USB Hub
2 x External HDD
Airport Express
Henry
-
Desktop
Audio Receiver
2 x Monitors
2 x Hardrives
Router
4935 Wh
3095 Wh
Callum
-
Monitor,
Valve Amp
505 Wh
Chloe
-
TV, DVD
Player,
Printer
368 Wh
Leah
-
TV, Wii
329 Wh
Ellie
208 Wh
Rachel
-
Printer
241 WhIan
-
50 inch monitor,
Xbox 360,
Speakers
618 Wh Feng
-
TV,
Playstation 3,
Speakers,
467 Wh
Miranda
263 Wh
164 Wh
Jack
-
Speakers
24. Desktop MonitorLaptop (8h)
Desktop PC,
Audio Receiver
(11.9 h) Mac Mini Server, HDD (2), USB Hub,
Router, Airport Express 24(h)
Monitor (10h)
TV (10)
Xbox (4h)
Henry Matt
Monitor (10.2h)
Router, HDD x2 (24h)
Constellations are just “on”
Satellite devices are on ‘just in case’; hub devices on to
enable practices - we’re really bad at creating ‘off’!
25. Incentives and Convenience
• Participants reported watching movies and TV on
their laptops: “We got a free download thing so
now we watch a lot”
Picture of ‘netflix’ advertisement removed for copyright reasons
26. • Miranda’s streams
(video) content whilst
getting ready for a
night out;
• Chloe likes to have her
laptop running whilst
watching video on her
TV so she can see any
new messages on
Facebook
• Connectedness and
the opportunities that it
provides, seems to
increase direct
energy consumption
27.
28. 2. MOBILE
DATA
DEMAND?
Demand in my pocket: mobile
devices and the data connectivity
marshalled in support of everyday
practice, CHI ’15.
Pictures of a phone charging lead and the internet infrastructure (power generation) removed
for copyright reasons
29. But… increasingly connected!
Hidden energy use/impacts from Wi-Fi routers, the
Internet, and the Cloud (always ‘on’)
http://www.vestedway.com/dont-ignore-that-elephant/
‘Elephant in the room’ picture removed for copyright reasons,
30. Typical phone charger = 5W (1.8-4.5Wh/day in our recent study)
The Internet = 200Wh/Gb
[Schien et al., 2013]
Visualisation of GHG footprint of a phone charger from
visualization.geblogs.com/visualization/co2/ removed for copyright
reasons
31. 1
30 exabytes of traffic
Total Global Internet Traffic: 2000
2014: Global Mobile Data Traffic (2G/3G/LTE)
“People are practitioners who indirectly, through
the performance of various practices, draw on
resources.” (Røpke, 2009)
32. Link data demand to
practice
• Mobile device logger: Squirrel iOS App
- Foreground app
- Time and date of use
- Mobile and WiFi data usage (Sent and Received)
- Screen state (on/off)
• Semi structured interviews; using “probing” graphs
39. Demand fills ‘Dead Time’
Mobile devices not only help to create, but also to fill
dead time… relief from boredom & being in touch
40. • …“When I’m out and about I probably use my
social networks more, ‘cause I’m bored”…
(Colin, iPhone 5)
• …“But then sometimes…when I’m waiting for
something to cook, I’ll be constantly refreshing it
because I’m bored”
(Joel, iPhone 4)
Colin’s Social Networks: 113.35 MB
Joel’s Tweetbot: 73.34 MB
41. Streamed video as
background noise
… “I think my use of background noise has kind of
increased since having a tablet, ’cause I realised how easy
it was but ’cause I’ve been on my own a bit more, like in
the house. I just like to have noise behind me and the iPad
allows that”…
(Mandy, iPad 2)
Mandy’s YouTube: 10GB in 5 weeks
Victor @ Realistic Shots
43. Design opportunities?
• Low-bandwidth options for background noise; observation: these
devices have RF receivers but cannot receive broadcast radio!
• Smaller and time shifting of updates
• Screen off, network off (simpler conceptual model of demand for
users?)
• HCI challenge: filling dead time through undesign?
• counterfunctional (Pierce & Paulos, 2014); meaningful and data-
free time (Leshed & Sengers, 2011); “ludic activities”(Gaver,
Bowers & Boucher, 2004);“slow apps”(Odom, Sellen, Banks et
al., 2014); promote reflection and mental rest (Hallnäs &
Redström, 2001)
45. 3. FOOD &
ENERGY? Domestic Food and
Sustainable Design: A Study
of University Student
Cooking and its Impacts, CHI
2013.
The doctor wants me to measure my food cartoon removed
56. Pizza vs. Pizza
27 minutes
...53
minutes
before
cooking
Oven switched on
85 minutes
36 minutes later...
...oven switched off
Pizza ready
55 minutes
57. 0.000 0.500 1.000 1.500 2.000 2.500 3.000 3.500
(2) BEER AND CIDER
Potatoes
Tomatoes
Onions, root crops, cabbages,
herbs&spcices, other veg,
Green salads
Prepared Veg., fruit & salad
Exotic veg and mushrooms
Apples & Pears
Bananas
Citrus and melons
Exotic fruit and berries
(including soft, stone, grapes)
(67) FLORISTRY
(84) CABINETS COOKED MEATS
Cabinets Milk
Ready meals, pizza & pasta
Sandwiches
(52) BREAD
(70) FROZEN FOODS
kgCO2e
GHG emissions per £ of product at the checkout
Source ingredients to
farm / factory gate
Food processing
Total consumer
packaging footprint
Transit packaging
Transport Emissions to
DC
Transport emissions
from all DCs to Stores
Storage and
processing at DC
Overhead (exc.
refrigeration)
Refrigeration
Where is the CO2?
Source: Mike Berners-Lee, Small World Consulting
58. Other food
Cooking Energy Emissions (22%)
Waste
Other
devices
Indirect Emissions (78%)
Relative Impacts
60. Encourage more efficient
methods & techniques
Scope: 10-20% cooking
energy; 2-4% overall GHG
Fewer timing errors
Make indirect emissions more
explicit to “cooks”
Scope: 20-30% indirect
emissions; 17-24% overall
GHG
Encourage more shared
cooking; change what’s in the
cupboard
Scope: less clear, some
direct & indirect emissions
61. 4. Transforming
Thermal
Comfort
Catch my drift?: achieving
comfort more sustainably in
conventionally heated
buildings. In DIS ’14.
Cosy looking cat sleeping on a hammock attached to a radiator picture removed (from http://
www.millbryhill.co.uk/)
62. Heating is about 25% domestic energy
demand in the UK; 20% in the US
Preheat predicts arrival, but does not necessarily use less energy [Scott
et al., 2011]; Call for mixed-initiative algorithms [Yang & Newman, 2013]
Google closes $3.2 billion
purchase of Nest
http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/google-closes-3-2-billion-
purchase-of-nest/
Google NEST ‘smart thermostat’ picture removed
64. G.M. Huebner et al. / Energy and Buildings 66 (2013) 688–696
Fig. 2. The individual lines correspond to average weekday winter temperature data for the N = 248 individual homes.
Huebner,McMichael,Shipworthetal.(2013)
N=248
Time of day
IndoorTemperature
Winter setpoints?
65. In 1895, “Staying comfy”
was more local and
personal
Picture from 1895 trade catalogue
reproduced from Humphreys, Nicol
and Roaf, 2012 removed
66. Adaptive thermal comfort
• allow indoor conditions to vary
more (typically with the seasons)
• explicitly acknowledge the active
role that people take in pursuing
comfort
Adaptive Thermal Comfort:
Principles and Practice,
Fergus Nicol, Michael
Humphreys and Susan
Roaf, Earthscan, 2012
68. mimic free running buildings by
slowly drifting indoor temperatures
towards outside temperatures
2 of 5 proposals from:
“Understanding Adaptive
Thermal Comfort”, UbiComp
2013
69. Drifting Algorithm
• During winter, median outdoor temperature: 5.5℃
1. A base ‘driftpoint’ was initially calibrated
according to median indoor temperatures during
baseline phase
2. Decreased by 0.2ºC each day, thereafter
72. Reductions
• we saw a small reduction
and more consistency in
median indoor temperature;
• the time that the radiator
was on reduced
significantly: potential
energy savings of between
19-76%(!);
• windows used less to
regulate heat
Internal analysis plot for one participant,
full summary stats are in the paper.
Ukulele
temp
hour 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
phase
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
phase
73. adaptive measures
observed
• refrigerated water
• cold showers
• electric fans
• opening windows
• hot tea, hot chocolate
• adding a layer
• warm showers
• closing curtains
• blankets
• hot water bottle
• staying in bed
getting warm getting cool
moving to another room
74. A range of approaches
Comfort
in control
Chloe happy for comfort to be unplanned or
spontaneous - extra clothing layers and
“make it warmer”Kate
Automatic
comfort
James Previously: radiators on full, window
used. Wanted ‘automatic’; wore light
indoor clothes. Had to work to
maximise heat.
Luke
Stephanie
Thermally
reflective
Jill Window open less, warm layers used a
bit more, more comfortable. Strategic
and planned ahead (even remotely via
web interface).
Nathan
Darren
75. – Stephanie
…“Sometimes you just want to come home and
sort of be warm, and sort of be like in a cosy
home. If I've been in the library for quite a few
hours it can be a bit of a pain in the butt if it's
not warm warm... coming home and feeling
warm and snug is really nice for me.”
Expectations and predicting
‘cosy’
76. – Chloe
…“If I did feel a little cold, I may just put another
layer on and then, you know, sort of see how I
feel later... I think [the intervention] has sort of
made me realise how it doesn't actually bother
me as much when it's colder. Whereas before
I'd have it, you know, a lot warmer and sort of
be wasting that energy. Whereas, you know, I
don't need to have it that warm.”
Transition in practice?
78. Sustainability by design
• Ubicomp can help us understand the energy and
indirect impacts (of technology) in everyday life
• We can (and must) design systems that promote
sustainability - care: demand we make convenient
• ‘Big wins’ by reconfiguring what we consider
normal (c.f. how heating is done, and beyond…)
79. The cloud begins with coal, digital power group, August 2013. http://bit.ly/17xDQqD
“The cloud” begins with coal
Global ICT uses about 1,500 TWh, 10% of global energy demand
80. Within 2℃?
Year
2000 2020 2040 2060 2080 2100
Emissionsofgreenhousegases(GtCO2e)
0
20
40
60
80
2020 peak
Year
2000 2020 2040 2060 2080 2100
Emissionsofgreenhousegases(GtCO2e)
0
20
40
60
80
2025 peak
Year
2000 2020 2040 2060 2080 2100
Emissionsofgreenhousegases(GtCO2e)
0
20
40
60
80
2015 peak
Reframing the climate change challenge in light of post-2000 emission trends, Anderson & Bows. 2008 Philosophical
Transactions A of the Royal Society. 366. pp. 3863-3882
81. Picture of man sticking head in the sand (like an Ostrich) removed
82. We can help create future ‘smart
environments’ with sustainability in mind
Picture of a placard ‘make a difference (to the planet) removed
83. a.friday@lancaster.ac.uk
http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/sds
This work was funded by the UK Research Councils (EPSRC grants EP/G008523/1, EP/I00033X/1 and EP/
I033017/1), and the Facilities Division and Faculty of Science andTechnology at Lancaster University. Thanks to:
Green Lancaster and the student residences officer at Lancaster University for their cooperation.