Article
No Limits to Watching?
Communications of the ACM
(2013)
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
Disciplines
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/mgmichael/84/