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An exploration of how openly shared, passively collected, and persistent personal data is providing individuals with scaffolding and feedback for complex tasks. The resulting technosocial impact is a shifting of the locus of control from centralized management and production of resources, decentralizing towards individuals.
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The Rise of Open Datapersistent, passively collected data, and the resulting technosocial decentralization
The Rise of Open Datapersistent, passively collected data, and the resulting technosocial decentralization
Rise of open data
Central tenets and thesis
Rise of open data→ persistent information
Central tenets and thesis
Rise of open data
this information provides scaffolding + feedback
→ persistent information
Central tenets and thesis
Rise of open data
this information provides scaffolding + feedback
→ persistent information
critical to performing optimally in the world
Central tenets and thesis
Rise of open data
this information provides scaffolding + feedback
→ persistent information
(living better lives!)critical to performing optimally in the world
Central tenets and thesis
Rise of open data
this information provides scaffolding + feedback
as we capture that info less mechanically& more organically,
→ persistent information
(living better lives!)critical to performing optimally in the world
Central tenets and thesis
Rise of open data
this information provides scaffolding + feedback
as we capture that info less mechanically& more organically,
→ persistent information
(living better lives!)critical to performing optimally in the world
we move towards a place where wellness, production, and access to resources become
decentralized
Central tenets and thesis
Open Data(capturing personal data → sharing open data → constantly sharing personal data)
Capturing personal data
Poyozo: a browser-based service that captures your detailed web activity in its entirety
Sharing personal data
Blippy: users link their credit cards and bank accounts to track and share their purchases
Constantly sharing personal data
Voyurl: users share their clickstream with friends and others, effortlessly in the background
Common question: why would anyone want to share these things about themselves??
Why collect data?
Similar question asked at one point: why does an iPhone need a compass?
compass
Why collect data?
Similar question asked at one point: why does an iPhone need a compass?
+videocompass
Why collect data?
Similar question asked at one point: why does an iPhone need a compass?
+video
=augmented realitycompass
Why collect data?
Similar question asked at one point: why does an iPhone need a compass?
Short answer: we don’t know yet. But there are enough innovative thinkers out there that - given tools and information - will create fantastic things
+video
=augmented realitycompass
Persistent Data
(the following are manifestations of how this information can be used - examples in real life cross every realm, but I’ve limited these to geolocation)
(capturing personal habits → optimizing personal habits → efficient living through understanding personal habits)
Capturing personal habits
Visualizations based on sharing foursquare checkins: “innovative thinkers creating fantastic things” is important when thinking about how informative location is to understanding personal habits
(example: perhaps I should explore here more often?)
weeplaces.com wheredoyougo.net
Optimizing for personal habits
Future Checkin: checks in automatically based on user-selected favorites. Once you understand personal habits, you can optimize for them
Efficiency through understanding of personal habits (understanding = limitation = scaffolding)
Tasker for Android: very complex & very robust, therefore a steep learning curve - if you can do anything, it’s hard to think of doing anything in particular (think: Second Life). Self-understanding gives users the limitation and scaffolding necessary to use rich, complex, and otherwise inaccessible tools efficiently
Feedback to develop new habits
Collection of personal data allows for intuitive feedback loops - As relatively short-sighted beings, we have a hard time making that intuitive jump between how the daily tasks we do today translate into long-term value years or even months down the road
DICE 2010, Jessie Schell:
“Design Outside The Box” Epic Win app
How? (Internet of Things)(a primer on the changing nature of how physical actions are
being collected and understood)
Internet of Things = sensors, actuators, and controllers
Sensor (force-sensitive resistor - resistance to electron flow changes according to pressure)
Actuator (lights up)
Controller (interprets changes in electron flow, translates them based on user-defined rules into electron flows that power actuators
User-defined rules for how controllers should interpret/translate electric currents
User-generated Internet of Things
Many kinds of sensors exist; because of an explosion of access (affordable microcontrollers), we’re getting better at figuring out how to use sensors in innovative ways to make actuators do innovative things. Put that information on the web (pachube), and anyone can access it/make something useful of it
Protocol-assisted Internet of Things
Standardized sensor/actuator/controller kits
IBM’s Mote Runner platform
Centralized Internet of Things
from PSFK’s Intelligent Cities report
Passive Capture(how these things are letting us move towards more passive
methods of capturing data)
Passive daily data for better living
from PSFK’s Future of Health report
Passive usage data for greener living
Green Goose: packaged sensor kits for home use - tracks energy usage & fitness activity
Passive behavioral data for efficient living
Nokia Bots: software that passively tracks usage behavior, arranging home screen positions and phone settings accordingly
Passive biometric data for smarter living
Passive physical data for convenient living
IKEA robotics: mobile, wireless robots that react to a user’s tracked presence in a room, reconfiguring automatically
Decentralization(What does this mean for long-term human behavior? Locus of control regarding wellness, production, and management of
resources is moving towards the individual)
Decentralization of energy management
from PSFK’s Intelligent Cities report
Decentralization of healthcare
Tools that track biometrics allow individuals to manage their own health to greater degrees, able to collaborate with physicians remotely
Text-messaging microchip pill
Decentralization of production
3D scanning + 3D printing = instant individual manufacturing plants
Decentralization of city management
Services like CitySourced will soon be powered by passive processes, seamlessly and constantly updating based on data collected by the natural everyday actions of individuals
from PSFK’s Intelligent Cities report
Rise of open data
this information provides scaffolding + feedback
as we capture that info less mechanically/actively& more organically/passively,
→ persistent information
(living better lives!)critical to performing optimally in the world
we move towards a place where wellness, production, and access to resources become
decentralized
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