4.5.2012, Bottom-Up and Top-Down, Main Hall: SADproject.tv (Alexander Kraicsich, Sarah Naber, Peter Purgathofer, Sylvia Purgathofer-Müller) #CeDEM12

1. SADproject.tv
Lessons learned from a social media
system to raise surveillance awareness.
Alexander Kraicsich, Sarah Naber
Peter Purgathofer
Sylvia Purgathofer-Müller

2. »Surveillance« defined as cameras watching over public spaces

3. Cameras can legally be operated by administration/executive...

4. ...or by certain hi-risk venues like banks, juwelry stores, etc.

5. sometimes cameras are operated without legal basis

6. some cameras are operated by unknown entities

7. Brin’s corollary to Moore’s Law: The
cameras will get smaller, cheaper,
more numerous and more mobile
every year.

8. Accelerometer
GPS/aGPS
Gyroscope
WiFi location DBs
Smartphones come with an array of location sensing technology

9. social media overpublishing
Social media oversharing on the rise
(work in progress by matt mckeon: http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/)

10. Gesellschaftliche
Spannungsfelder
der Informatik
Peter Purgathofer,
Sommersemester 2010
2 Verletzlichkeit der
Informationsgesellschaft 12. April 2010
mandatory 1st year course for all informatics bachelor students

11. Students had to tweet all cameras they encountered within 24h

12. Prototype visualisation of camera locations & trails

13. First version of SADproject.tv web page

14. Easing the process of sousveillance in the face of surveillance

18. First version of SADproject.tv web page

19. submitted to prix ars electronica 2011 – without success

20. Success or Failure?
Download statistics of the iPhone app

21. Success or Failure?
s :-(
Stagnatingamera count
camera
at 841 c
stop ped
ally
activ ity fin
All
Download statistics of the iPhone app

22. Observations
› too much competition in social media space
› individual contributors, but no community
› too little incentive after initial »aha«-effect
› gamification too superficial
› mobile app slow, buggy, too complicated
› Sarah & Alex finish studies, leave uni
though still committed to the project

23. Redesign/relaunch
› Paper acceptance at CeDEM revives project
› Ars Electronica invites us to resubmit the project 2012
› Part of Ars Electronica Center exhibition »Out Of Control«

24. »OUT OF CONTROL - What the Internet Knows about You«

26. future plans

27. »Law/norm-gap«

31. MAP AWARENESS
DB OF
SOCIAL INDIVIDUAL
CCTV
MEDIA ACTIVISM
CAMS
GROUP
GAME(S)
ACTIVISM

32. Immediate plans
› Materials for teachers who come to Ars Electronica Center
› QR-code generator
› facebook-game based on the camera database
› Implement oversharing »Aha!« moments
› Refine user exerience and interaction

33. 完
bildquellen:
(cc) flickr user »stommy«: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stommy/6287598526/
SAD user »kampf_frettchen«, tagged on April 30, 2012, 9:42 p.m. via mobile app
(cc) flickr user »cabbit«: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cabbit/3366186067/
(cc) sarah naber & alexander kraicsich, 2011
SAD user loki, tagged on July 3, 2011, 5:14 p.m. via website
SAD user martin, tagged on May 4, 2011, 12:45 a.m. via website
(cc) Ars Electronica, 2011 & 2012
(c) twitter.com