Modern Human is an award-winning design consultancy that designs products, services, and environments using emerging technologies like machine learning and computer vision. They help clients apply these technologies through design. The document describes Modern Human's work designing a privacy-sensitive computer vision product and interface that uses existing cameras and machine learning to gain insights from spaces. It outlines their process of starting with a technical prototype, redesigning the user experience and interface with an ontology and lexicon of recognition, and simplifying it to three main screens (Insight, Space, Device) for editing detection zones and floor plans.
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22. Laying out a lexicon of recognition
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23. insight [ɪnsʌɪt]
the capacity to gain an accurate and deep understanding of
someone or something
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24. workflow [wəːkfəʊ]
the sequence of industrial, administrative, or other processes
through which a piece of work passes from initiation to
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32. Editing Detection Zones and Floor Plans
When a user creates a new Detection Zone it is comprised of 4 main nodes in each corner and 4
sub nodes that appear between each main node. A straight line is always maintained between
main nodes. To enable this to happen both on and off site the background should either be a live
view from the Stream or the latest snapshot to be captured.
To change the shape of the detection zone a user can drag any node. When a sub node is
moved it turns into a main node and sub nodes appear either side. This allows for the user to
create a Detection that is as simple or as complicated as their situation requires. To aid this the
user can “pinch out” the screen to zoom in.