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Retrospective Facial Recognition

For any given culture what are the drivers and mechanisms for obscuring / censoring portions of content? How will the recording and pixellation of pornography …
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A Sense of Ownership

The distance between you here (your physical presence) and you there (your public and private online presence) is closing. How might this affect us? And …
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Cue Queues

29 Nov 2012
In: Burbank, Future Perfect
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In a world of information overlays tied to, say, facial recognition what cues will be provided to help people queue? How does it change the …
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Yesterday’s Office: Heaving To

04 Sep 2012
In: Puerto Cabezas, Today's Office
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The sigh was followed by a creaking floorboard as she shifted her weight from straddling him to being perched on the edge of the bed. …
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Let’s Agree That I Don’t Know You

Encountered a nice touch on returning from a business trip to urbn hotel Shanghai, where on arrival the receptionist refused to take my credit card …
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Seoul, Digital View

29 Dec 2011
In: Cultural Norms, Seoul
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If you want to understand public interaction with displays, you need to spend time in Seoul. Seoul Metro now how more than 900 of these Digital …
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It’s Not Your Face, It’s Ours

After a few days in NYC back in China. One of the reoccurring conversations in the US that I coming back to is near-time facial …
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Shortening the Path

For the lady wishing to know more about this club host – expect to QR barcodes to be supplanted by facial recognition – still through …
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From ‘Is this You’ to ‘This Is Me’

17 Aug 2010
In: Future Perfect, Kabul
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The security protocols for working in Afghanistan dictate that the driver doesn’t hold up the name of the person they are picking up, but …
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Global Insights from Design Research

A heads-up for Shanghai based folks – I’ll be giving a talk titled Global Insights from Design Research (透视设计调研) with design studio colleague Leizhong Zhang, …
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