This Pervasive Day : The Potential and Perils of Pervasive Computing.
Title:
This Pervasive Day : The Potential and Perils of Pervasive Computing.
Author:
Pitt, Jeremy.
ISBN:
9781848167490
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (314 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: This Pervasive Day Jeremy Pitt -- 1.1 Levin's Legacy -- 1.2 This Perfect Day -- 1.3 UniComp, Revisited -- 1.3.1 Construction -- 1.3.2 Interaction -- 1.3.3 Functionality -- 1.3.4 Infrastructure -- 1.4 This Pervasive Day -- 1.4.1 Summary -- 1.4.2 Chapter overviews -- 1.4.3 Final remarks -- 2. Implicit Interaction Alois Ferscha -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Environment is the Interface -- 2.3 What is Implicit Interaction? -- 2.3.1 Interacting with landscapes of digital artefacts -- 2.3.2 Context awareness -- 2.4 Categories of Implicit Interaction -- 2.4.1 Presence -- 2.4.2 Identity -- 2.4.3 Spatial proximity -- 2.4.4 Profile -- 2.4.5 Context -- 2.5 Outlook -- 3. Brain Computer Interfaces Ricardo Chavarriaga and Jose del R. Millan -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 BCI Architecture: Translating Thoughts into Actions -- 3.2.1 Monitoring and recording brain activity -- 3.2.2 Decoding brain activity -- 3.3 Applications -- 3.4 Context-Aware BCI -- 3.5 Practical Issues -- 3.6 Discussion -- 4. live scent vil stench Jenny Tillotson -- 4.1 Introduction: A `Live Scent' Beginning -- 4.2 Health and Wellbeing -- 4.3 Sex and Procreation -- 4.4 Fertility -- 4.5 Diagnosis -- 4.6 Entertainment -- 4.7 Security -- 4.8 Military -- 4.9 Learning -- 4.10 Finance and Consumerism -- 4.11 Public Space and the Environment -- 4.12 An `Evil Scent' Conclusion -- 5. Reflective Computing Naturally Artificial Nikola Serbedzija -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Motivation: What You Need Is What You Get -- 5.2.1 Growing up with reflective care -- 5.2.2 Keep on playing with reflective assistance -- 5.2.3 Stay independent with reflective elderly care -- 5.2.4 Reflective control system -- 5.3 Theoretical Consideration: Mixing the Senses -- 5.3.1 Biocybernetic loop -- 5.3.1.1 Awareness -- 5.3.1.2 Short-term adaptation.
5.3.1.3 Long-term adaptation -- 5.3.1.4 Pervasive adaptation -- 5.3.2 Affective computing -- 5.3.2.1 Short chronology -- 5.3.3 Capturing the user status -- 5.3.3.1 Overt actions -- 5.3.3.2 Overt expression -- 5.3.3.3 Covert expression -- 5.3.3.4 Multi-modal processing -- 5.3.4 Closing the loop -- 5.3.5 Reflective software architecture -- 5.4 Reective Deployment: Seamless and Implicit -- 5.4.1 Mood player -- 5.4.2 Adaptive seat -- 5.4.3 Vehicle as a co-driver -- 5.4.4 Reflective home nurse -- 5.5 Technology Impacts Who is in Control -- 5.5.1 Web used to be anonymous and distributed -- 5.5.2 Computers used to be trustworthy -- 5.5.3 Computers used to preserve privacy -- 5.5.4 Networks are supposed to be collective -- 5.6 Conclusion -- 6. Healthcare in a Pervasive World Simon Dobson and Aaron Quigley -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Changing Face of the Elderly in Society -- 6.3 The Domain of Pervasive Healthcare -- 6.3.1 Bioinformatics -- 6.3.2 Niche areas -- 6.4 Technological Avenues -- 6.4.1 Context and situation -- 6.4.2 Healthcare situations and behaviours -- 6.4.3 Avoiding social isolation -- 6.5 Challenges Remaining -- 7. Social Networking in Mobile Pervasive Environments Gualtiero Colombo, Stuart Allen, Martin Chorley and Roger Whitaker -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 A Future Application: Social Micro-blogging Services -- 7.2.1 Online micro-blogging services -- 7.2.2 A near-future utopian scenario: This Perfect Day -- 7.3 Social Networking: A Brief Background -- 7.3.1 Recent observations from behavioural science -- 7.3.2 Structure of social networks -- 7.4 Social Networking in Mobile Pervasive Environments: Push vs. Pull -- 7.5 Trust and Cooperation -- 7.5.1 Social networks of trust -- 7.5.2 Privacy and security -- 7.6 Further Applications: Key Opportunities for Social Networking -- 7.7 Conclusion: The `Socialnets' Paradigm.
8. Smart Sustainable Futures Joan Farrer -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Levin's Vision of Fashion in the Future -- 8.3 Sustainability -- 8.4 Technology and Sustainability -- 8.5 The Potential of a Standard Garment Solution -- 8.5.1 Shape memory textiles -- 8.5.2 Light emitting, Fibreoptic and conductive textiles -- 8.5.3 Aesthetic applications -- 8.6 The Potential of a UniComp Solution -- 8.7 The Potential of `Source Local, Make Local, Sell Local' -- 8.8 Most Sustainable Long Term Solution -- 8.8.1 Textiles, fibres and sustainability -- 8.8.2 Disposal and upcycling -- 8.8.3 Advantages of the standard garment solution -- 8.8.4 Limitations of the standard garment solution -- 8.9 Conclusion -- 9. Wires and Wearables Janis Jefferies -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Wearable Computing -- 9.3 Cultural Implications -- 9.4 Technological Provocation -- 9.5 Conclusions -- 10. Implementing `Namebers' Using Microchip Implants: The Black Box Beneath The Skin Katina Michael and M.G. Michael -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Background -- 10.3 The Human Chip Implant Controversy -- 10.4 Where Have We Been? -- 10.5 The VeriChip Implantable Device -- 10.5.1 Applied Digital Solutions and the VeriChip -- 10.5.2 The VeriChip: phase I -- 10.5.3 The 2003 `Get Chipped' campaign -- 10.5.4 The original VeriChip cornerstone applications -- 10.5.5 VeriChip corporation: phase II -- 10.5.6 Consumer concerns: VeriChip's VeriMed system -- 10.6 Case Study 1: Baja Beach Club (2004) -- 10.6.1 Chipping club patrons -- 10.6.2 Access control and the patron e-payment solution -- 10.7 Case Study 2: CityWatcher.com (2006) -- 10.7.1 Chipping employees -- 10.7.2 Physical access control application -- 10.7.3 To get implanted or not to get implanted that is the question! -- 10.8 The Technological Trajectory -- 10.8.1 Waiting for the train -- 10.8.2 In an age of Uberveillance.
10.8.3 The touted potential benefits -- 10.8.4 The real exposure fallout -- 10.9 Conclusion -- 11. Robot Companions: Technology for Humans Serge Kernbach -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 State-of-the-Art Robot Technologies -- 11.3 Bio-, Chemo- and Neuro-Hybrid Robotics -- 11.4 Collective Robotics -- 11.5 Social Aspects of Robotics and Robot Companions -- 11.5.1 Robots as assistive technology -- 11.5.2 Service area and robot companions -- 11.6 Conclusion -- 12. When the Battlefield Robots Come Home From War Ken Wahren and Jeremy Pitt -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Battlefield Robots Today -- 12.3 How the Technology has Evolved, and Where it Might Go -- 12.4 Integration into Civilian Society -- 12.5 Likely Social Response -- 12.6 Conclusion: If UniComp Had Today's Battlefield Robots -- 13. Power and Sustainability Paul D. Mitcheson -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Powering Distributed Sensors -- 13.2.1 Wired power supply -- 13.2.2 Wireless power supply -- 13.2.3 Energy harvesting -- 13.2.4 Energy-harvester powered wireless sensors -- 13.3 Powering the Intelligence -- 13.4 Powering Environmental Controls -- 13.4.1 Earthquakes -- 13.4.2 Weather -- 13.5 Discussion and Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Imagine a world where your clothes sense your blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature. Suppose the sensors transmit this information to 'the cloud', continuously and unobtrusively. Suppose artificial intelligence in 'the cloud' detects an anomaly. Suppose it tells your doctor: sighs of relief all round. But then suppose it tells an actuary, who tells your insurer, who tells your employer … This is the world of pervasive adaptation. This Pervasive Day explores the potential - and perils - of daily living with pervasive adaptive computing. This is the result of saturating ourselves and our physical environment with sensors, cameras and devices, all connected to and inter-connected by global networks and computers, which can run increasingly intelligent machine-learning and data fusion algorithms on datasets that could be generated by the entire human population. This book takes as its unifying theme Ira Levin's 1970 science fiction novel This Perfect Day to expose both potential innovations and controversial social issues. It explores the science and technology of pervasive adaptation through a human-centred and socio-technical perspective within the cultural, ethical and legal context of contemporary life. It discusses how pervasive adaptation could provide the foundations for a new range of life-enhancing and planet-saving applications in health, sustainability and assistive living. On the other hand, with the recording, storage and processing of every action, emotion and thought, there also arise the possibilities for unwarranted surveillance, invasions of privacy, loss of civil liberties and commercial exploitation. This Pervasive Day is an insightful read for anyone concerned with the social impact of technology. Written by experienced technologists with a deep interest in computational intelligence, human-computer interaction and
ambient systems, This Pervasive Day is a remarkable single source of reference - a fusion of several technical disciplines that makes for a broad scope of investigation within the domains of pervasive computing. Unifying, informative and thought-provoking, This Pervasive Day takes its place as a landmark title that will challenge the perceptions of the technologists and policy-makers, the pragmatists and the theorists, the doers and the thought-leaders.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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