Crafting Urban Camouflage: A workshop held as part of DIS 2012 in Newcastle, UK that seeks to address questions concerning public visibility in a technological landscape.
- How might managing our visibility affect our inhabitation patterns of space?
- How does personal visibility to tracking systems change over the course of a day?
- What are the implications of these strategies for designers of computer tracking systems?
- What are the social consequences of becoming invisible to digital systems?
Event Description:
As interactive systems become increasingly entwined with architecture and spaces become more able to detect the presence of individuals, should the need for control of visibility as a temporary personal state be a factor considered in interaction design?
This one-day workshop will take a playful approach to exploring how low-cost materials and tools can be used to manage personal visibility in monitored public space by designing and testing prototypes for rendering people invisible, using craft and physical hacks to explore the limits of computer vision tracking systems (OpenCV). By explicitly engineering modes of failure, we can learn how visibility and invisibility can be managed, while also considering potential improvements in robust tracking for interaction design.
Researchers and practitioners from the fields of art, design, ubiquitous computing, wearable computing, computer vision, architecture and social science who are interested in computational tracking technologies, strategies for managing personal visibility or design for hybrid public spaces are encouraged to apply. No prior knowledge or experience of computer tracking systems is required.
Overview of the subject.
More details about the event at: http://prusikloop.org/urbancamouflage/index.html
HMS Furious painted in Dazzle Camouflage during World War I
