Arts practice MeYouAndUs will produce TILO, a hybrid display system for cultural venues. It uses ... more Arts practice MeYouAndUs will produce TILO, a hybrid display system for cultural venues. It uses digital screens situated in the public spaces of a venue, combined with live feeds and sensors to display engaging, interactive and personalised content. TILO aims to create a dialogue between the arts organisation, the building and its visitors, and will allow artists to carry out their own interventions. The system will be piloted at FACT, the popular cross-arts venue in Liverpool.
The focus of this paper concerns the ethical and political use of information, using the World Ec... more The focus of this paper concerns the ethical and political use of information, using the World Economic Forum’s argument for the management of misinformation that if left out of control can lead to digital wildfires. Using examples from Social Media and the online reporting of Hurricane Sandy in 2009 I will demonstrate how information is misinterpreted and repurposed. This will be juxtaposed against the Chattr project as an example to demonstrate how a research project addressed issues of personal data sharing. This will be discussed in context with the ethical considerations of researching within an academic institution and compared against the Conversnitch project conducted outside of the ethical constraints of an academic institution. Specifically, I will look at the ethics and privacy of the use of the physical space to highlight ethical decisions that have repercussions in a digital public space.
This thesis provides a critical and practice based investigation of personal fears of sharing per... more This thesis provides a critical and practice based investigation of personal fears of sharing personal digital data. In it, I explore the fears and growing tensions between the requirements to share personal information while maintaining the need to control and protect personal privacy. The emphasis of this study was to develop research through a series of multi-disciplinary, practice-based projects alongside external industry partners. I begin by exploring the rise in surveillance methods, from the Panopticon to the rise of social network sites and examine the consequences of sharing personal information online. Data sharing has been made easier through the proliferation of internet connected, mobile devices and wearable technologies that has led to a growing reciprocal trade in personal information in return for online services. In a world of ‘digital narcissism’ and perpetual life-logging brought about by the volume of shared data, modern surveillance is an increasingly manifesta...
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Items in social media such as photos may be co-owned by multiple users, i.e., the sharing decisio... more Items in social media such as photos may be co-owned by multiple users, i.e., the sharing decisions of the ones who upload them have the potential to harm the privacy of the others. Previous works uncovered coping strategies by co-owners to manage their privacy, but mainly focused on general practices and experiences. We establish an empirical base for the prevalence, context and severity of privacy conflicts over coowned photos. To this aim, a parallel survey of pre-screened 496 uploaders and 537 co-owners collected occurrences and type of conflicts over co-owned photos, and any actions taken towards resolving them. We uncover nuances and complexities not known before, including co-ownership types, and divergences in the assessment of photo audiences. We also find that an all-or-nothing approach seems to dominate conflict resolution, even when parties actually interact and talk about the conflict. Finally, we derive key insights for designing systems to mitigate these divergences and facilitate consensus.
To those of a certain age the concept of the mix-tape holds fond memories, and generally not of t... more To those of a certain age the concept of the mix-tape holds fond memories, and generally not of the musical content they contained, but rather the emotional and physical connection they represented with either its creator or recipient. They provided an embodiment of the time and effort it its creation and thus presented the same qualities of other handmade gifts. The advent of digital content, and particularly the mp3, for storage and streaming meant that audio content could be shared more quickly and easily than ever before. However, the creation of a digital playlist does not embody the same qualities present in a mix-tape and thus has not gained the same cultural significance. This research re-imagines the mix-tape for digital content as physical customizable jewellery that can once again embody values not generally attributed to digital content. Through a discussion of the design process and the results of preliminary evaluation, the potential benefits on the user experience of sharing digital content through physical objects have been highlighted.
Arts practice MeYouAndUs will produce TILO, a hybrid display system for cultural venues. It uses ... more Arts practice MeYouAndUs will produce TILO, a hybrid display system for cultural venues. It uses digital screens situated in the public spaces of a venue, combined with live feeds and sensors to display engaging, interactive and personalised content. TILO aims to create a dialogue between the arts organisation, the building and its visitors, and will allow artists to carry out their own interventions. The system will be piloted at FACT, the popular cross-arts venue in Liverpool.
The focus of this paper concerns the ethical and political use of information, using the World Ec... more The focus of this paper concerns the ethical and political use of information, using the World Economic Forum’s argument for the management of misinformation that if left out of control can lead to digital wildfires. Using examples from Social Media and the online reporting of Hurricane Sandy in 2009 I will demonstrate how information is misinterpreted and repurposed. This will be juxtaposed against the Chattr project as an example to demonstrate how a research project addressed issues of personal data sharing. This will be discussed in context with the ethical considerations of researching within an academic institution and compared against the Conversnitch project conducted outside of the ethical constraints of an academic institution. Specifically, I will look at the ethics and privacy of the use of the physical space to highlight ethical decisions that have repercussions in a digital public space.
This thesis provides a critical and practice based investigation of personal fears of sharing per... more This thesis provides a critical and practice based investigation of personal fears of sharing personal digital data. In it, I explore the fears and growing tensions between the requirements to share personal information while maintaining the need to control and protect personal privacy. The emphasis of this study was to develop research through a series of multi-disciplinary, practice-based projects alongside external industry partners. I begin by exploring the rise in surveillance methods, from the Panopticon to the rise of social network sites and examine the consequences of sharing personal information online. Data sharing has been made easier through the proliferation of internet connected, mobile devices and wearable technologies that has led to a growing reciprocal trade in personal information in return for online services. In a world of ‘digital narcissism’ and perpetual life-logging brought about by the volume of shared data, modern surveillance is an increasingly manifesta...
Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Items in social media such as photos may be co-owned by multiple users, i.e., the sharing decisio... more Items in social media such as photos may be co-owned by multiple users, i.e., the sharing decisions of the ones who upload them have the potential to harm the privacy of the others. Previous works uncovered coping strategies by co-owners to manage their privacy, but mainly focused on general practices and experiences. We establish an empirical base for the prevalence, context and severity of privacy conflicts over coowned photos. To this aim, a parallel survey of pre-screened 496 uploaders and 537 co-owners collected occurrences and type of conflicts over co-owned photos, and any actions taken towards resolving them. We uncover nuances and complexities not known before, including co-ownership types, and divergences in the assessment of photo audiences. We also find that an all-or-nothing approach seems to dominate conflict resolution, even when parties actually interact and talk about the conflict. Finally, we derive key insights for designing systems to mitigate these divergences and facilitate consensus.
To those of a certain age the concept of the mix-tape holds fond memories, and generally not of t... more To those of a certain age the concept of the mix-tape holds fond memories, and generally not of the musical content they contained, but rather the emotional and physical connection they represented with either its creator or recipient. They provided an embodiment of the time and effort it its creation and thus presented the same qualities of other handmade gifts. The advent of digital content, and particularly the mp3, for storage and streaming meant that audio content could be shared more quickly and easily than ever before. However, the creation of a digital playlist does not embody the same qualities present in a mix-tape and thus has not gained the same cultural significance. This research re-imagines the mix-tape for digital content as physical customizable jewellery that can once again embody values not generally attributed to digital content. Through a discussion of the design process and the results of preliminary evaluation, the potential benefits on the user experience of sharing digital content through physical objects have been highlighted.
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