Posts Tagged ‘ internet of things ’

Short Paper submitted to Web Studies Congress 2010

The Memorable: Applying the Internet of Things to small communities Shingleton, D., Sutherland, K. Edinburgh College of Art Burke, M., Hudson-Smith, A., Karpovich, A., O’Callaghan, S., Simpson, M., Speed, C., Barthel, R., Blundell, B., De Jode, M., Leder, K., Manohar, M., Lee, C., Macdonald, J. Abstract RFID, radio frequency identification, is a technology that is now rapidly being developed by [ READ MORE ]

Object Centered Computing and Architecture

  • September 23rd, 2009
  • Posted in thoughts

Object centered computing is set to have a profound technological change just as the switch from personal computers to the networked-centered computers was.  Personal computers dealt with the assumption that everything one needed was stored locally.  Networked computers built upon that, assuming everything one needed could be made universally accessible on the internet.  What sort [ READ MORE ]

A Memory Object’s Implications on Identity

  • September 22nd, 2009
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Geser (2002) theorises that the deliberate linkage of the physical world with the virtual world through RFID tags and sensors, will lead to a further “permeability” between the public and private contexts expanding traditional physical spaces, through the creation of “virtual communication” spaces. As we become part of the global network, we are no longer [ READ MORE ]

Objects as Memory Artifacts

  • September 22nd, 2009
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Baudrillard (1996) discuses the capacity for objects to invoke memories within us, that they complexity of this relationship between human on object connoting the ‘emotional value’ objects take on; ‘What gives houses of our childhood such depth and resonance in memory is clearly the complex structure of interiority, and the objects within it serve for [ READ MORE ]

Objects as Devices for Memory Storage

  • September 22nd, 2009
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Can smarty objects transfer the agency of memory storage away from the person and instead, in an automated process of continual information capture and storage, provide a new memory repository that supports, relieves and occasionally replaces natural memory? Draaisma (2000) provides us with a metaphor of memory as objects, referring to memories as a‘store of precious [ READ MORE ]

ECA Studentship Research Proposal

Research proposals are invited from applicants who have an interest in undertaking a practice-based PhD to examine to focus upon the implications of memory objects on architectural design. The research programme will establish theoretical and practical methodologies for the consideration of new spaces in the context of TOTeM. I have submitted an application for the PhD [ READ MORE ]

RFID and the ‘Internet of Things’: You are part of the Global Network.

  • November 19th, 2007
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Extracts from a lecture: by Duncan Shingleton. Objects tagged with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip have a unique digital identity and play a pivotal role in joining the physical world with the digital. A resulting ‘Internet of Things’ emerges, consisting of networked objects that are capable of communicating what they are, and what is going [ READ MORE ]

Ludic Society Magazine Issue #3

We are at the brink of entering into an age of everything you own being numbered, identified, catalogued, and tracked. Radio frequency technology, or RFID, is a technology that is now rapidly being developed by corporations and governments who see the possibilities and advantages of managing large bodies of objects. Tagged with an RFID chip, [ READ MORE ]

RFID and the Internet of Things Day Three

The workshop participants were teamed up in four teams, all with a different imperative, some had a prior interest and some were formed ad-hoc. The teams have spent parts of day 1 and 2 working on their ideas and projects. Day 3 was fully reserved for working on the projects. Resulting in the final presentations [ READ MORE ]

RFID and the Internet of Things Day Two

Arie Altena kicks off day two with his presentation on “How the web became social (although it already was)” on the way his blog/publishing research relates to the topic of design for RFID. Arie notes that the technology is still in a state of infancy, therefore it might turn out to be something people will [ READ MORE ]