Red Light Countdown
From red dot online: design concept – winners 2009 comes this cool idea:
“Eko Light is a traffic light whose purpose is to promote safer driving and less fuel consumption, while at the same time helping the environment by reducing carbon emissions and improving traffic flow. Eko Light can be easily installed into existing traffic light systems without much effort.”
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Tags: contest, design, fun, safety, vehicle |
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| Posted: 12/1/09 2:56 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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The speaker at this Friday’s Informatics Seminar will be Kane Kim. This
week’s seminar will be a joint seminar between the Department of
Informatics and the Department of Computer Science. The Informatics
Seminar this week will be held on Friday at 3pm in ICS 432, followed by
a social hour at 4pm. See you there.
Abstract:
” Emergence of ubiquitous computing societies (UCSs) means enormous
increase in both the number of computing nodes connected together and
the number of distributed computing (DC) applications. That in turn
means enormous increase in the complexity of DC occurring. Without a
new-generation DC software engineering technology, application systems
such as next-generation multi-party video-conferencing systems,
real-time virtual reality systems, systems of cooperating autonomous
ground vehicles, and next-generation secure villages and towns, cannot
be constructed with sufficient economy, efficiency, and reliability. A
major part of a new-generation DC software engineering technology should
be a new-generation software building-block (BB). A substantial
percentage of new-generation DC applications are of RT computing types
which involve actions subject to relatively high-precision timing
requirements. Therefore, desired aBBs must be effective in constructing
RT DC application systems.
The TMO (Time-triggered Message-triggered Object) programming and
specification scheme is intended to facilitate RT distributed
programming and software engineering in a form which software engineers
in the vast business software field can adapt to with relatively small
efforts. It is also aimed for enabling system engineers to produce
certifiable RT computing systems for safety-critical applications in
cost-effective and sufficiently confident manners. Its support tools
can be based on well-established OO programming languages such as C++,
C#, and JAVA and on ubiquitous commercial RT operating system kernels or
even on MS Windows. In addition, the TMO scheme facilitates an
attractively simple approach to parallel and distributed RT simulation.
Experiences have shown that undergraduate senior students can learn the
TMO tools and methodology and become reasonably proficient in networked
embedded system programming. In this seminar, the underlying design
paradigm and the essence of the scheme, the tools (including middleware
supporting reliable execution of TMOs on various platforms such as
notebook, PDA, and single-board ITX PC, associated APIs, GUI-based
design aids, and analysis tools) and application demonstrations built so
far, and remaining research issues, will be introduced.”
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Tags: AI, AIDS, app, art, demo, design, safety, software engineering, STEM, ubiquitous computing, vehicle, video, virtual reality |
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| Posted: 5/1/06 9:15 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Car buyers must be told about black boxes - August 21st, 2006
Photo courtesy of pinelife
CNN is reporting in this article, that regulations have been put in place that require U.S. car manufacturers to inform owners about the presence of sensor suites in vehicles which record context in the moments before a crash:
“Some privacy advocates have expressed concern that the data, which can be used as evidence in court cases, is being collected without the knowledge of vehicle owners and drivers.
The devices are virtually impossible to disable because their functioning is so tightly integrated with vehicle safety systems such as airbags and anti-lock brakes.”
I wonder if this solution can actually scale to all the environments in which future recording will take place? How can someone be effectively informed of all the different types of surveillance which are being performed on them? Furthermore, what can someone who objects to the surveillance really do? In this case it is still possible to buy a car without a recorder, but what about where alternatives aren’t available? If you don’t want to be video-captured when withdrawing cash from an ATM, do you have a choice?
Gaetano Borriello has a well-thought out solution to this problem. It requires all surveillance technology to broadcast meta-information about where they are, what they are collecting and the actual information being captured. I can’t find a link to his manifesto, but the version I read was pretty compelling. If you are being surveilled you also get to use the surveillance data while you are an object of surveillance.
Such a solution would address the concerns associated with the car-recording device by broadcasting its presence on a universal broadcast medium. A concerned individual would be able to verify the existence, properties and accuracy of the car data recorder on their own. They still don’t really have a choice about the surveillance, but at least they have knowledge.
Submission deadline: October 20, 2006
“Interaction (n): a cyclic process in which two actors alternately listen, think, and speak.”
- Chris Crawford, from The Art of Interactive Design
Computer-Human Interaction is grounded in action
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