Invention of HDR and photocell experiment.
CEMENT = Computer Enhanced Multiple Exposure Numerical Technique
CNN Decoded: Decoding the world of wearable technology
It will be a kind of inverse-hackathon, i.e. not corporate-driven like most hackathons, but instead humanity-driven, and we'll do publications rather than prizes, i.e. the "hack" will be to write a journal article in the leading journal of XR (eXtended Reality) and spatial computing for the inaugural issue (already invited to write the article); getting something published has far more impact than a little corporate-sponsored prize.
It is a coopetition rather than a competition, i.e. we work together to create mindfulness with motors and mechatronics, and the world's most advanced brain-computer interface with the world's brightest thought leaders and experts on XR / XV (eXtended metaVerse).
Saturday Feb. 17 at 2pm you might like to join us for our social get-together and open-mic, each to introduce ourselves to the others at the Swimdock, and some of us will go for a dip in the lake, and swim over to the Swimdock and jump off the dock. See https://SwimOP.com
Bring your friends, especially anyone who's a natural-born "maker" with lots of experience making and building things, as it is an opportunity to meet other like-skilled makers.
Sunday we'll get together the more experienced "makers" to prepare things and set the stage for others to join.
Emily, Shivanshi, and Mete will also give a tutorial and demonstration on how to SWIM out EEG (brainwaves) which, together with the Odrive, will form the basis of the mindfulness and biofeedback.
Please be sure to read this paper,
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9209380
and also read up on ODrive,
as well as bring your SWIM if you've done the Instructable already.
https://www.instructables.com/Moveillance-and-Motor-Metaveillance/
https://www.instructables.com/Superhumachines-Superhuman-Machine-Intelligence/
Polar Plunge on New Years Day, January 1st, at 12noon...
See also our Facebook event.
Virtual / eXtended / Augmented Reality Activism Illuminates Ontario Place for Winter Solstice on December 21st:
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Facebook event
Check out the Proceedings of our Mersivity / WaterHCI Symposium available on DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10447905 (link)
Steve Mann running for Toronto mayor...
Beyond Metaverse... IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, Call for Papers
Join us for the Mayoral Candidate's Debate at Micheal Hough beach, Toronto's cleanest beach under threat of privatized development...
Facebook,
ToDoCanada.ca,
blogTO
Petition to save downtown Toronto's only beach which is also Toronto's cleanest beach:
Why we swim:
Excerpt: Intro + Can Humans Being Machines Make Machines Be Human?
Link to WaterHCI-2022 (de)conference proceedings PDF...
WaterHCI website: www.waterhci.com
See also last year's WaterHCI (de)conference proceedings.
Beginners or novice makers: we offer the meta-mentorship program.
Caption: One of Steve Mann's childhood inventions,
Metavision
(the vision of vision, sensing sensors, and sensing their capacity to sense)
with the Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine (SWIM).
In this early photograph, Mann has captured a camera's
capacity to "see", i.e. a visualization of vision.
More generally his ability to
sense sensors and sensing their capacity to sense allowed him to create
many other inventions in the area of vision, sensing, and sensors.
Metaveillance for sensing sensors, and sensing their capacity to sense.
In this photograph we we see the sensory interference pattern between
two Shure SM58 microphones.
You might also like to register in my other course, Inventrepreneurship (Invention + Entrepreneurship), APS1041.
VRTO2016, Virtual and Augmented Reality 2016
Keynote
Here is a link to the Conference Proceedings.
(Also, here is a link to the Intro text.)
CVPR 2016 Workshop on "Moving Cameras Meet Video Surveillance: from Body Cameras to Drones"; see also workshop website.
ECE516 (ECE516H1S): Wearable Computing, IoT (Internet of Things),
and AR (Augmediated Reality) Glass
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ECE516 is based on mathematical frameworks that use
Integral Kinematics and Integral Kinesiology and the time-integral of distance:
Absement (Absition)
PHENOMENAugmented Reality, IEEE Consumer Electronics, Volume4, Number 4, October 2015:
A.I. is a half-truth without H.I.!
POVAR and other examples of the Internet of Truth and Integrity for Consumer Electronics: See the invisible waves that see you!
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Location: Room WI1017, Wilson Hall, New College 40 Willcocks St, Toronto, ON M5S
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM MaRS Discovery District 101 College St, , Toronto, ON (map)"As far back as our cave dwelling days we have been compelled to document and tell the stories of our lives. We have come a long way since chiseling pictures on rocks with nearly 2 billion of us walking around with cameras in our pockets but new technologies such as wearables and drones are taking us even further...."
Wearable Computing with 3D Augmediated Reality, Digital Eye Glass, Egography (Egocentric/First-Person Photographic/Videographic Gesture Sensing), and Veillance
Download the
PDF, 4-page paper by
Steve Mann, Steve Feiner, Stefano Baldassi, Soren Harner, Jayes Hansen,
and Ryan Janzen
Wearables + IoT = Veillance = SMARTWORLDs = Workshop at Stanford 2015 Jan 16:
http://wearcam.org/tei2015/
Spaceglasses are the ultimate
meta-sensor == a sensor that can sense sensing itself. More generally,
Meta can function as the device of devices, by being your plenary form
of interaction with the "SMARTWORLD"...
more detailed description.....
(Visualizing Vision, Seeing Sight, and Sensing Sensing with the
Meta Spaceglass)
Meta Digital Eye Glass which has some features of Generation-5 DEG: http://www.meta-view.com
IEEE ISTAS 2013 = International Symposium on Technology and Society:
The IEEE Spectrum article on Wearable Computing.
Using Sousveillance to Defend the Commons, by David Bollier, Wed, 06/25/2008 - 23:00
"Through the Glass": IEEE Technology and Society, Vol 32, No. 3
'Sousveillance', In Los Angeles Since The LA Riots
OCAD sur/sousveillance sur/sousvey
Passenger acquitted, refused to show ID and videotaped the incident at an airport security checkpoint.
Art Prof Lets World Peer Through His Surgically Embedded 3rd Eye.
To see presentation on sousveillance at DIY Citizenship conference,
scroll ahead to
Tell the Government to Say Cheese
Singularity Summit:
Here's some interesting talks on sousveillance:
Pay to Sit, also on
vimeo.
CBC GO! Owen Pallett and Musical Instrument Madness
Hydraulophone, balnaphone, etc., featured
on Soundbuilders; also here's a piece not used in the Program.
H2Orchestra performing for National Capital Commission, Ottawa from Steve Mann on Vimeo.
Vote for the use of hydraulophones to provide clean drinking water
Chris Willmer's proposal to use hydraulophones for water filtration...
Hydraulophone
listed as one of the top 10 musical instruments....
IAAPA FUNworld: SOPHISTICATED FUN.
...Interactive Musical Attractions.
Hydraulophone & Glass Armonica
Aquatune Hydraulophone manufactured by WhiteWater West (licensee hydraulophone invention)
Musical Water Instruments
H2Orchestra playing at LiveH2O
Invited hydraulophone lecture at
Queen's University:
bemes;
The Terasem Movement 4th Colloquium on the Law of Futuristic Persons;
blog
Community Sousveillance and "sousveillance officers".
Sousveillance means we watch the watchers.
scan again
FRANKFURT VON UNTEN
DIE STADT AUS SOUSVEILLANCE PERSPEKTIVE
clancco...;
888torontomeetup,
as seen on glogger.
889: Second day of the 888TorontoMeetup,
as seen on glogger.
S. Mann, R. Janzen, C. Aimone,
and others will be performing on hydraulophone at Harbourfront in June:
We're (LUMINAT'EAU CARNIVAL H2O, June 14th and 15th) listed as number 1 on the
Scotiabank Caribana Festival 2008 summer program schedule.
27:00 (and watch to about 50:00) and then scroll ahead to 1:36 (and
watch to about 2:05) at
this link.
H2Orchestra Performing for National Capital Commission in Ottawa - More amazing video clips are a click away
Robert Thill's article on Prior Art exhibit at Gallery TPW, etc.
Freely | Limitless | | | Device(s)
Fluidly | Liquid | User | Interface | Design(s)
Flexible | Lifelong | ---- | --------- | Definition(s)
Fun | Lossless | | | Description(s)
H2Orchestra played again at Brampton Independent Arts Festival (BIAF) Friday, 2008 February 15th
picture by Marc De Mouy
Waterflute (hydraulophone) played by H2Orchestra members R. Janzen and S. Mann
View Steve Mann's profile
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New Year's Tears... Like glass armonica
Here are some pictures from ICMC 2007:
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| Cymbal | H'phone | Organflute | Plasmaphone | Synthesizer |
| ("Earth") | ("Water") | ("Air") | ("Fire") | ("Idea") |
These five states-of-matter correspond to the five Classical Greek Elements:
Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Idea ("Quintessence" meaning "fifth" element
which we realized
using Thought Technology EEG instruments).
Immersed Music concerts
explored the immersion of these five elements in both water and air:
| Solid, Liquid, Gas | Plasma | Informatics |
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| Guitar, H'phone, Flute; | Plasmaphone; | Synth/EEG |
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car-free street festival, Baldwin Street between Beverly and McCaul Streets.
The theme for this final event of the summer in Baldwin Village is `Tomorrow'. "What do you see for Baldwin Village in the future? Given the huge arts community we hope to come up with a fun, futuristic vision for the street. Visionaries welcome!"
Consider a 5-hour train ride that takes you 500 miles directly away from your home, in a straight line, to another destination where you stay for 5 hours and then return. Suppose you want to stay wirelessly glogged into your home computer at a "roaming" communications cost of $1/mile/hour. For simplicity, assume a linear long-distance rate, i.e. $1/hour when you're 1 mile away, $2/hour when you're 2 miles away, $3.14/hour when you're 3.14 miles away, etc.. The total cost of your online communications is $5000, since the absement (time-integral of displacement) is 5000 mile hours (1250 mile hours on the way to your destination, plus 500 miles * 5 hours stay = 2500 mile hours, plus 1250 mile hours of absement during the return trip).
The middle plot shows Displacement. The first 5 hours are spent in the
train going at velocity 100mph (miles per hour) away from home.
The area under this triangular part is 1/2 five times 500 mile hours,
which is 1/2 times 2500 mile hours, i.e. 1250 mile hours.
The next 5 hours are spent at your destination, 500miles from your home,
where you pay $500/hour for 5 hours, for a cost of $2500.
Staying online during your return trip costs you another $1250.
Your total cumulative running cost is the area under the middle plot up to a particular point in time. This integral is called absement and is shown on the top plot.
Each of the three plots is the time-derivative of the plot above it:
Hydraulophone in Experimental Musical Instruments publication
See and hear a musical composition for hydraulophone and orchestra:
Nessie also played at BRAMPTON INDIE ARTS FESTIVAL and the Mayor of Brampton also played on Nessie.
Sustainable Businesses: Hydraulophone
Here's a pipe organ that Chris Aimone
and I (Steve Mann) made together,
along with other members from my
research team:
FUNtain pipe organ with water-jets as keys, Wednesday 2006 September 20th:
Ryan playing Pachelbel's canon on the South division of the fountain
Download a higher resolution version of that movie in mpeg 4
Metal and Flesh, Volume 6, Number 1, submitted 2002 May 1st
Sousveillance:
newschool
sousveillance video on 'gloger
Existential Technology which asks the question "Can humans being clerks make clerks be human?", is the philisophical grounding and theoretical basis for the above examples of sousveillance and cyborglogging.
Equiveillance seeks to further the study of the equilibrium between surveillance and sousveillance (inverse surveillance). Introduced and debated during last year's opening keynote address at the Association of Computing Machinery's COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY conference, equiveillance explores the means by which we might mitigate power imbalances arising from systematic and unbalanced surveillance. Baa baa May2005
Equiveillance Week kicks off with an ID Trail Mix on Equiveillance by Ian Kerr and Steve Mann, posted on January 3rd (See the Kerr and Mann 2006 paper, or download an ASCII text version, or Linux OpenOffice ".doc" version), followed by a week of active discussion on blog*on*nymity by various guest bloggers, professors and students. Invited bloggers include Valerie Steeves and David Matheson, as well as Gary Marx, Professor Emeritus, M.I.T., and Daniel Solove, Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Article with comments.
Call for Submissions
Editors: Stefanos Pantagis M.D., Jason Nolan Ph.D.
ACM CFP keynote and maybecameras were mentioned on Kim Cameron's weblog:
The conference organizers actually turned every conference bag into a maybecamera replete with its individual dome! It was really bizarre and effective, especially given the conference title of "Panopticon"... And guess what? It's the first time I have come home from a conference with something both my (university age) children wanted! -- Kim Cameron
petitions as a form of sousveillance
"urbeach" (urban beach)
First place winner of the Coram International
Sustainability Design Competition
Sousveillance panel at Computers Freedom and Privacy (CFP)
The Sousveillance Sheppard (call for citizens to photograph any suspicious lorries, trailers and number plates)
making the streets safe with web-based sousveillance cameras
Some recent and upcoming events that the ePi Lab (EyeTap Personal Imaging Lab) is involved with:
Sousveillance (domewear) on Bruce Sterling's 'Blog
Urban Turbine (rooftop windmill 3 phase generator)
3phase Power to the People!
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Also note that barnesandnoble.com is the same company as bn.com but you need to use the barnesandnoble.com domain to get a search, e.g. by ISBN, such as for example: "http://search.barnesandnoble.com/textbooks/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?isbn=0385658265".
See also the amazon.ca book reviews.
book and workshop mentioned in igargoyle
Upcoming sponsorship opportunities:
the upcoming Digifest Event, including "A Celebration of the Art,
Science & Inventions of Steve Mann",
digifest 2004, ON THE MOVE,
MAY13-16, TORONTO:
(PDF)
Sousveillance: Opening Keynote Address for Academia Week at McGill University
Visual art: the original reason for the invention of the wearable computer:
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The wearable computer, in the form we know and use it today, was invented
in Canada in the 1970s for computer-mediated reality, as a visual art
form, for production of pictures like this picture from the mid 1980s.
See a larger version of above picture
See Other examples of
Lightvector paintings like the one shown above.
I've been having a lot of trouble finding a reliable 4way Decora switch (Leviton's seem flaky, and unreliable). Let me know if you know of any reliable Decora 4way switch, or a reliable X10 dimmer for that matter.
Issues in Wearable Computing, by Len Bass, Steve Mann, Dan Siewiorek and Chris Thompson
Witnessentialism: Witnessential Networks
Comparametric Equations WWW site Recent paper on Comparametric Equations
glinaccess: making GNU Linux accessible to the visually impaired (persons with low vision)
Click
here to locate the first book at BARNES&NOBLE
This book teaches the fundamentals of wearable computing and
mediated reality, the EyeTap principle, the mathematical theory,
as well as the practical details of how to design and build these
systems.
Click
here to locate the second book at chapters.com
This book presents,
to the layperson, wearable, mobile, wireless computing and communication,
and personal experiences of inventing, designing, building, and
wearing computers for the past 20 years, as well as how these inventions
affect society as a whole.
The book is usally found in the cultural studies section of the bookstore:
Here it was found on the third floor of Chapters bookstore,
on Bloor Street, in Toronto. (Fullsize pictures taken from within
Chapters bookstore can be found here.)
Existential Technology, Leonardo 36(1), 2003 Intelligent fixtures and systems, Leonardo, 36(3), 2003
It is also designed for easy access to the visually challenged, and to be easy to read on a wearable computer or EyeTap device, so if you find large font sizes offensive, then tough.
This site contains no frames, animations, or other viruses, and you will not require any proprietary plug-ins or proprietary or specific browser versions to access the material presented here. You can set your browser width to whatever you like, because I have made no assumptions whatsoever about what screen size you must purchase in order to view this site. This site will view quite nicely, for example, on a standard size 640x480 VGA display or a high brightness NTSC TV picture tube suitable for use by the visually impaired.
If you want a more organized and more desktop computer friendly site, see http://eyetap.org and http://about.eyetap.org
FILM TITLE: Cyberman
Year: 2001
Time: 87 minutes
Film Types: Colour/35mm
``about... the world's first wearable computer...''
``It's a visually intricate look into the head of the world's first cyborg: inventor, performance artist, privacy advocate... a "Roger and Me" for the William Gibson generation.''
Joici Ito, Japan's leading philosopher on technology, has contextualized many related issues, such as freedom, democracy, privacy, sur/sousveillance, etc., in his recent article, Emergent Democracy.
(Some of the University of
Toronto ECE1766 Photoborgs getting ready to head out on
a shooting assignment.)
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I am a faculty member at University of Toronto; you may want to visit my official faculty WWW page at http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann
Contact info: Prof. Steve Mann, University of Toronto, Department of Electrical Engineering, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G4 mann@eecg.toronto.edu.
© We're supposed to have a Copyright notice in our Web pages. That circle-C is ASCII 251 in case you were wondering. My Snail mail (Canada Post) is also on that same page.
![[Free Speech Ribbon]](computing/rib_trn.gif)
Blue ribbon designates
Free speech
(ribbon used instead of
setting background color to black
because this would be a Notscape specific feature).
glynx (graphical lynx) based on konqueror
The DEC Alpha has held the record as the world's fastest microprocessor since 1992. This makes it a good computer upon which to run GNUX (GNU+Linux) for a WearComp base station or Interenet gateway.
WearTech/WearComp/WearCam on CNN (1996)
Russell McOrmond once said: "Any 'hardware assist' for communications, whether it be eye-glasses, VCR's, or personal computers, must be under the control of the citizen and not a third party."
Don't let Software Barons force-feed you anything that isn't COSHER!
Always ask for ADVANCE payment if you're giving an expense-paid invited lecture, otherwise you're extending what amounts to a high-risk interest free loan. ESR got this one right!
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(Instructables.com)
