{"title":"Smart Sustainable Futures","authors":"J. Farrer","doi":"10.1142/9781848167490_0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781848167490_0008","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this chapter is to use Ira Levin’s concept of ‘coveralls’ as a catalyst to examine and discuss what are the critical and philosophical issues surrounding contemporary thinking about sustainability, in particular design in relation to sustainable fashion and textiles.","PeriodicalId":151727,"journal":{"name":"This Pervasive Day","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134477671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Live Scent | ɘvil Stench","authors":"J. Tillotson","doi":"10.1142/9781848167490_0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781848167490_0004","url":null,"abstract":"About this book: \u0000 \u0000The book explores the potential – and perils and pitfalls – of the new technology of pervasive adaptation. Miniaturisation and Moore’s Law have combined to make pervasive computing (ambient environments and artifacts saturated with sensors and processors) a reality; while advances in intelligent software (machine learning, self-modifying code, etc.) make adaptation of those pervasive computing environments possible. This opens up a wide range of interesting and beneficial applications in health, commerce and entertainment; it also opens up the possibility of every behaviour, preference and even emotion being sensed and recorded digitally. And then, possibly, being used in a way that is less desirable: for surveillance, invasions of privacy, reduction or removal of rights, advertising – even unexpected uses caused by inadvertent loss of the data. This book will investigate the science and technology of pervasive adaptation from a human-centred perspective, and consider the social, ethical, and legal issues. It will offer both an overall view of innovative technologies from a techno-political standpoint, with recommendations where research should or perhaps even should not go, as well as bringing up specific controversial issues, on which the contributors might not be in full agreement. \u0000 \u0000About Jenny Tillotson's chapter: \u0000 \u0000This chapter investigates Pervasive Computing and olfaction, our most primitive and powerful sense. It describes the pros and cons of sensory clothing and ubiquitous computerised scent technologies in this world scientific book that explores the potentials, perils and pitfalls of the new technology of ‘pervasive adaptation’. Pervasive computing is now a firm reality, opening up wide ranging beneficial applications in health, commerce and entertainment. The book offers a comprehensive view of innovative technologies from a techno-political standpoint, with recommendations to suggest where research should or should not venture in the future. It offers the possibility of every emotion, behaviour and preference being sensed and recorded digitally, and used in a less desirable manner, e.g. for removal of rights, breach of trust, surveillance and invasion of privacy. \u0000 \u0000The concepts provided in this chapter all stem from research on evidenced-based essential oils, chemo-sensory/olfaction science and human behaviour which I have been researching since my PhD. It relates to my other outputs because the focus is largely on the benefits of healthcare, wellbeing and sensing human behaviour in the digital age and research I am undertaking at the Institute of Biotechnology, University of Cambridge. The research builds on earlier work on eScent® (funded by the AHRC in 2004), working prototype devices from the ‘Brave New Unwired World’ catwalk show by Charmed Technology Inc. (MIT Media Lab wearable computing spinout company in 2000) and award-winning PhD work from the Royal College of Art (1997). \u0000 \u0000The chapter considers s","PeriodicalId":151727,"journal":{"name":"This Pervasive Day","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122215946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When the Battlefield Robots Come Home From War","authors":"Ken Wahren, J. Pitt","doi":"10.1142/9781848167490_0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781848167490_0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151727,"journal":{"name":"This Pervasive Day","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126900766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementing 'Namebers' Using Microchip Implants: The Black Box Beneath The Skin","authors":"K. Michael, M. G. Michael","doi":"10.1142/9781848167490_0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781848167490_0010","url":null,"abstract":"The use of electronically-based physical access cards to secure premises such as government buildings and large corporate offices has been in operation since the inception of barcode and magnetic stripe cards in the 1970s. Over time, for secure access control, these first generation card technologies, based on optical character recognition (OCR) and magnetic ink character recognition (MICR), were replaced by more sophisticated technologies such as smart cards and biometrics, containing encrypted data and techniques that were more difficult to dupe or to replicate (Michael, 2003a). An employee today, wanting to gain access to their place of work, typically carries a photo identity card in addition to a contactless smart card based on radio-frequency technology, and may also use one of his/her unique","PeriodicalId":151727,"journal":{"name":"This Pervasive Day","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116575325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Healthcare in a Pervasive World","authors":"S. Dobson, A. Quigley","doi":"10.1142/9781848167490_0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781848167490_0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151727,"journal":{"name":"This Pervasive Day","volume":"137 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124611567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wires and Wearables","authors":"Janis Jefferies","doi":"10.1142/9781848167490_0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781848167490_0009","url":null,"abstract":"Much has been made in European Union research programmes, and elsewhere, of the metaphors of ‘the disappearing computer’, ‘ambient intelligence’, ‘territory as interface’, ‘internet of things’ and indeed ‘pervasive adaptation’. The underlying idea, of course, is that it is no longer the desktop computer or the handheld device that provides the interface to the computing and network infrastructure; the entire environment is the interface. The aim of wearable computing is to include clothing in these metaphors: all someone’s garments provide interfaces and affordances for explicit interaction, implicit interaction (see Ferscha, Chapter 2) and affective interaction (see Serbedzija, Chapter 5).","PeriodicalId":151727,"journal":{"name":"This Pervasive Day","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114699605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gualtiero Colombo, S. M. Allen, M. Chorley, R. Whitaker
{"title":"Social Networking in Mobile Pervasive Environments","authors":"Gualtiero Colombo, S. M. Allen, M. Chorley, R. Whitaker","doi":"10.1142/9781848167490_0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781848167490_0007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":151727,"journal":{"name":"This Pervasive Day","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115825783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}