Download - Making Sense of Sensors
Arithmetic& logic unit
Control unit
Memory(instructions
& data)
Results ofoperations
Instructions& data
I/O
...and the blueprint for our tools hasn’t changed (much)
But this blueprint, and these models, are increasingly irrelevant.Modern computing devices are more about I/O than processing
$32 Sensors/touchscreen/GPS
$27 16GB Flash memory
$25 RF components
$14 4GB DRAM memory
$11 A4 processor
$10 display
There’s no shortage of sensors.
microphone
touch screenGPS
physical keys
Bluetooth
wifi
3G
camera(s)
accelerometer
magnometer
compass
light
proximity
gyroscope
gravity sensor
linear acceleration
rotation vector
NFC
QuickTime™ and a decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Their mainstream uses tend to be subtle.Perhaps because we resent the digital intruding upon the physical?
We need them: finger-to-screen we’re out of bandwidth.So must look for other ways to express communicate with our devices
Flickr quinn.anya
Different platforms expose sensors differently.You can see assumptions and philosophies play out
Flickr sycamoremoonstudios
...or map it in specialist, meaningful ways.Hills Are Evil: maps that matter for people with restricted mobility
On-device processing is very feasible...Your mileage may vary, terms and conditions apply
On-device processing is very feasible...Your mileage may vary, terms and conditions apply
...but the real world isn’t a sterile lab... It’s full of noise, and packing sensors together doesn’t help
Portal 2 Valve
We can look for inspiration from literature...Daemons in the Dark Materials trilogy, envisaged on-stage as puppets
...to artists who give us new ways to look at a familiar world...Animal Superpowers by Kenichi Okada & Chris Woebken
...or to those showing us the unseen all around us.Immaterials: light painting WiFi film by Timo Arnall
Think of image. What symbolises paranoia, the state - Brazil?
Think of image. What symbolises paranoia, the state - Brazil?
Things to keep us awake at night.We’re leaving trails for future technology to pick up
Thank you for not heckling(unless you did)
...and thank you to Trevor May, Dan Williams, Timo Arnall, Jof Arnold, Ellie D’Hondt, Usman Haque, Gabor Paller, Sterling Udell, Martyn Davies, Daniele Pietrobelli, Andy Piper and Jakub Czaplickifor all their help with this presentation.
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