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No Limits to Watching?
Communications of the ACM (2013)
  • Katina Michael, University of Wollongong
  • M.G. Michael, University of Wollongong
Abstract

Little by little, the introduction of new body-worn technologies is transforming the way people interact with their environment and one another, and perhaps even with themselves. Social and environmental psychology studies of human-technology interaction pose as many questions as answers. We are learning as we go: 'learning by doing' through interaction and 'learning by being'. Steve Mann calls this practice existential learning; wearers become photoborgs, a type of cyborg (cybernetic organism) whose primary intent is image capture from the domains of the natural and artificial. This approach elides the distinction between the technology and the human; they coalesce into one.

Keywords
  • sousveillance,
  • watching,
  • limits,
  • camera,
  • recording,
  • replay,
  • control,
  • autonomy,
  • human rights,
  • freedom,
  • safety,
  • security,
  • power,
  • corruption,
  • third party,
  • embedded sensors,
  • REM,
  • CCTV,
  • point of view,
  • play
Publication Date
December 1, 2013
Publisher Statement
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2527187
Citation Information
Katina Michael and M.G. Michael. "No Limits to Watching?" Communications of the ACM Vol. 56 Iss. 11 (2013)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kmichael/372/