Future of trust and reputation systems, w.48

What we have done

Personas and scenarios

With the help of our created personas and scenarios we as a group have now finalized our vision of the future. We have started to use our prepared personas and scenarios from last week to create our infomercial which will be used in the final presentation to explain and visualize our vision to the audience.

Presentation

In order to progress with the preparations for the presentation a lot of focus is on creating the infomercial of “Identity Bank” which is our vision for the future. We have a clear united vision for an animated infomercial and a clear purpose for it. Instead of attempting to explain the concept around “Identity Bank” ourselves in the presentation we will instead use the infomercial. We have written a brief script for the infomercial that we are going to base it on and propose our ideas and visions through. We have also gathered some relevant images for possible use as well as thought through color schemes and fonts to use.
Interview

Since last week we have not performed any more interviews. Instead we have focused on making sure that all the interviews that we have done is being evaluated and analyzed in order to see what we can use in the final text, presentation or not at all. The part of the project focusing on information gathering is behind us, in this part of the project focus is solely on finishing the text and preparing the presentation.

Book Report

The two people that are responsible for the book report have been working on explaining the terms reputation, identity and their relationship with trust. Additionally they have written the introduction and the description of the future scenario. They have also worked with the offload trends to be send to Malin and Daniel. At the group meeting, the features, services and interface of our cross-referencing system have been decided by the whole team, giving thus valuable insight on what needs to be added in this part of the text.

What we will do

Focus now is of course on finishing the text for the book. There is less time for anything else but since we have decided on creating an infomercial also that part of the project is in focus. Creating something of a movie, no matter how short will always take time and we want to make sure that the infomercial will be finished since we find it crucial to in the best way possible describe our vision of the future.

Next week we will thus have to divide our group in order to work more efficiently on both the video and the text for the book, but at the same time try to work together. Some of us will have to focus on developing and creating the final video and the rest will have to finalize the text.

Challenges encountered

The largest challenge encountered in the project have truly being defining the actual final result. It’s hard to create a united vision of the future of trust and reputation systems since there is so many aspects which will influence it along the way. We as a group have used a lot of different brainstorming methods in order to find a united vision and we now are certain that the vision chosen represents the vision of the entire group.

Changes in the project

There have not been any changes in the project. We have rather made an attempt to specify the end result of the project.

Future of Piracy - Weekly status report 4 - week 48

What we have done:

We have completed our online survey and got 168 answers (!). We have analyzed the results and have included them in our chapter for the book. We have a crude first draft of the book chapter ready and we’ve had a meeting where we discussed the draft and where we came up with different add-ons. We decided to proof-read by ourselves and to modify the text yet again on monday. Additionally, we received an answer from Elena, the media law professor from Moscow. She will answer our questions via email and Skype during the weekend.

What we will do:

We will proof read our crude draft. We will also have to add at least one more subchapter that relates to the digital commons and the collaborative economy in order to tie it all together. We will also write a concluding chapter together as a group. When all this is done we will start working on a storyboard for the movie that will depict how our future scenario will look like. We already have some ideas and we imagine that the movie will be rather short (1-2 minutes) since we don’t have a lot of time to present our future at the final presentation.

Challenges encountered:

The summary of the survey generated by Google is clearly wrong and thus we need to summarize it manually and that might take some additional time.

Future of crowdwork w. 48

What we have done this week is that we have started working with our text and our presentation in detail matters. For this week we divided the tasks so we have been able to focus more demarcated and efficiently. Some of us are working with the text for the textbook, and others are working with the movie outline and editing. We also had group-meetings as usual, and good media communication, so we all can keep track on what we are doing, where we are, give feedback and comment each others work. Things are coming together nicely and all the aspects we planned to cover are more or less done. What's missing right now is a small introduction, a wrap up and maybe some aspects about current surveillance situation in our society.

About the movie-making, we have worked with a text for a voice-over storyteller in our movie. It’s an outline of what we will present in our video, and kind of our skeleton in our presentation. This is what we are putting video towards. To visualize our concept.

We have written it in a way where a fiction future security company are presenting a new system, and the text is written from that point of view, as we described it in last weeks report. The speech has been generated with voice simulators and then edited together. We have all contributed by searching and finding good movie clips, which is now on its way to be good scenes to the movie, together with some animations! Even if the main object is to tell about the system in words, together with experience enhancing pictures, we also want to demonstrate a typical scenario how the system works (see short storyboard for a “real” situation). Editing has taken a lot of time this week, but it might be really good! Let’s see what this will end up in...

The texts we have worked on this week is based on following topics: Surveillance culture, the developing trends in AI and AI Interaction and what we propose will happen, and crowdworking drivers to explain our idéa and the concept, implementation etc. We now have to work the texts together so there will be a good reading flow. And this is what we will continue doing next week. We will be polishing our texts and tie up the bag, and hopefully complete the movie presentation as well. There will also be a proof reading session, which hopefully will give us some good feedback.

A funny thing in our work is that the deeper we dig, the more we find are really happening somewhere, in the line of our concept. For example is the finding of AI supporting “super recognizers” really good reading for the interested, which are linked below. The technologies are out there, or on it’s way, they are just not assembled to one system yet..

New references

http://www.lasie-project.eu

Storyboard of a scenario

Shared urban farming, W.48

What we have done. This week we have been discussing our text to the report, since we decided last week that all of us should write different text parts. Now we have a first version and we know what we want to have and put focus on. We need to rewrite and improve some parts as well as write the conclusion (or the final text in the report). We have also decided which programs to use for making the prototype for the application and also the film for the final presentation. We are learning the two programs so that we can start creating them in the beginning of next week.

What we will do. On Monday we have planned to read through our report and do the final work before handing it in next Thursday. Then we are starting to make the prototype and film to the final presentation.

Challenges encountered. It has been a bit difficult to meet this week as well because of all the different courses everyone is taking. However, we have a plan for all the work that has to be done so we believe that everything will work out. Beside, we managed to find some more time slots next week.  

Changes in the project. We haven’t done any changes in the project.

Share Your Life - update week 48

This week, we have continued working on our chapter of the book. We have been very productive and the writing has been going well. There is still a little more work to do on the text before it’s ready for final proofreading and handing in. During the week, we have also been writing the manuscript for the video which we are about to record tomorrow (Friday). Our plan is to spend the whole day shooting the movie. We know that cutting the video will take us quite some time and effort, so we really hope that all the shooting will be finished after tomorrow.

Next week we will finish up all the last bits of writing, and do the final editing of the text. We will also start producing the video, as well as preparing the layout and structure for the final presentation. It is busy - the life of a Future-of-Media-student.

During the time we have been working with our project, we have found articles and other projects that touches up on the idea of collecting and sharing health data. These projects and research that we have discovered relates in many ways to our idea with Share Your Life, but are still different. Recently, however, we found this campaign called DataDonors (www.datadonors.org) which is very similar to our project idea. Datadonors is performed by The Wikilife foundation, and they explain the vision of the campaign as following on their website:

We are only beginning to understand how lifestyle choices affect individual health and well-being. DataDonors provides the global health community a database that can be used by researchers, scientists and physicians around the globe to help discover new scientific research behind healthy living. We hope to collaborate with other organizations and developers to help expand our audience and provide insight into healthy living for millions of people around the world. This project can profoundly impact advancements in health and wellness research, and ultimately yield a healthier global community thanks to the contribution of individual participants.

The concept and general idea of Datadonors is very much the same as ours, which in some way is a bit sad (we wanted our idea to be unique!). We are not getting beaten down by this though, since Share Your Life still have some promising features that Datadonors doesn’t include (yet...). In some way it is nice and reassuring to find a campaign like Datadonors, since it tells us that we definitely are on the right track with Share Your Life, and something like this can be done!

And just to prove how timely our idea is - did anybody miss the announcement by HUI research this week - the christmas gift of this year  *** drumroll ***

The activity bracelet  - you know you want one!

Future of Information Sharing - Week 48

This week: 

This week we have have utilized the concrete thinking of last weeks work to look forward but yet backwards. That sounds pretty abstract and bland, however bear with us. As we realized that we ought to narrow down the project from a very futuristic "all-in-all" project to a concrete and centralized point we started to thin down the fog of project immersion. We decided that focus should not be on the whole "solution of information" but the sharing bit. How we access the information is not really the issue at the moment, even though it would be nice with a serendipitous solution. The problem at hand is that a very small segment of people taking advantage of information online on forums and online encyclopedias are actually contributing, i.e. collaborating. So the focus has steadily shifted towards solving that aspect of the future of information. This is somewhat of a breakthrough in an otherwise relatively abstract vision of the future. With this clearing in the fog we have progressed to actually get work done on the presentation and report which are well on the way. We started to look forward at this point. By that we mean that we started thinking: What are the main points of the project we want to convey on the final presentation? We made a long list and sub points to the main points. By looking at what we would like to present we started to analyze where we are and subsequently knew what parts we needed to focus on to reach those goals. This was very helpful, because if you just go along without an eye on the finished result one will get bogged down in details in eternity. Now we know exactly what is needed to be done, and it feels good and clear. Somewhat of a rarity in an otherwise abstract project. 

We handed out different tasks to be responsible for until an internal deadline, well before the official ones so we can polish the work. This really feels as though each member knows basically what they should do. The report, presentation and vision are close to be completed and it feels good. The future.. isn't as dim as dome would like you to believe.

The Future of 3D-printing Weekly Report w. 48

What we have done this week

This week we have worked most of the time apart and written the most of the report. We held one meeting this week 27/11 since there was hard to fit the schedules for a meeting earlier in the week. We discussed how to go forward in the best way and decided that half of the group would focus on the report and the other half on the presentation. 

The Report

Since most parts had been writen in the report we felt that there were no need for six people to proofread and edit it. Therefore only half of the group got the report as focus to proofread and make smoother transitions between all topics written in the report. 

The presentation

The other half started to work with the presentation, by making storyboards for the movie and planning the structure of the presentation. We want the presentation to feel dynamic mixing movieclips with live presentation/acting. Since the edititng of these clips will take the most time we want to start filming as soon as possible. This team also started with the illustrations of prototypes and interfaces that will be used both in the report and in the presentation. 

Encountered problems

The meeting was very straight forward, we didn't encounter any problems. 

                                                             Group SAV3D in action

Next week

For the next week we will finish the report and have a ready presentationplan so we can begin shooting the films!