Thursday 12-2PM, 02-15-2007

From CENS Urban Sensing

Urban Sensing Meeting Notes
Thursday, 2/15/07
12-2pm:
Attendance – Yanmoon? (works/Thomas on Natcar), Elisa, David, Vids, Jeff, Sasank, Andrew, Eric, August, David Harris, Jason, Thomas, Robert, Nicolai

1 VISITOR: David Harris
- 1.1 Thesis project: howdoisaythis.com
- 1.2 Campaign idea
2 DIET CAMPAIGN II
3 SOUND LEVEL CAMPAIGN
4 CAMPAIGN PITCHES
5 UPDATES
6 PRESENTATION ON PAPERS
- 6.1 “Enabling the 21st Century Healthcare Information Technology Revolution” by R. Agrawal (David)

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VISITOR: David Harris

Background: UCLA graduate film directing student, some advertising background

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Thesis project: howdoisaythis.com

video-based art expression for how to say typically hard-to-say things.
Pulls pieces from text, video clips, documentary clips, etc.
DIY self-generated content
Gave anyone who was going anywhere interesting a camera, to shoot clips of what people thought was hard to say or how to say it

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Campaign idea

give people cell phones and let the cell phone owner be the interviewer and the interviewee (with videos). Shoot a clip, and end with a thought-provoking question for the next person to respond to.
- People can respond as they have time or when they’re comfortable sharing.

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DIET CAMPAIGN II

(Sasank)

Run same campaign as before, with more people and better shots of food
Volunteers?
Next: send SMS msgs with feedback while program running?
Every participant will create their own table in Sensorbase
Sasank or admins will have “write-only” access at first for privacy concerns.

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SOUND LEVEL CAMPAIGN

Questions from Elisa & Stephen
- Is it possible to replace row data in Sensorbase?  Not really
- Are the auto-incrementing fields available to use and access so that we can join two separate tables together?  Right now, no. But Gong can quickly implement a method to do this, by Saturday.
Privacy auditor will be Robert Wei, dealing or raising any data protection issues.

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CAMPAIGN PITCHES

Fabian - The city wants to knock down his warehouse building (across from LA State Historical Park) in order to widen Spring St, while Fabian and the surrounding community aren’t too happy about it.
- Can we record traffic flow on Spring Street and how many people turn around in their lot area?
- Talk to Jeff soon if interested in doing this.
Andrew - see where ground is covered by cigarette butts or gum, an indication of activities that occur at that location
August - Yelp.com, where you want to go
Eric - weights on basketball courts in Wooden, see availability
Elisa - social networking site for slogging, being able to submit txts/pics/video responding to any part of a forum-type conversation
Jason - correlation between events, how local campus events affect density of parking spaces, for example.
Thomas - mobile version of youdrivelikeanasshole.com
David - Similar to “assassins” game, take pictures of targets, based on the distance to the target (size pf the target) and accuracy of the shooting (target should be in the middle) to determine the score, and a defense mechanism on phone such as real-time short messaging to avoid being “killed”.
Vids - Runnability campaign (similar to walkability(
Jeff – estimate number of people (“pedestrian density”)walking in a neighborhood by mobile keypad inputs.
Robert – extension of assassin game by using gps and packet data
Nicolai – send info every time a call is dropped

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UPDATES

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GPS connectivity (Jason)

If used frequently, gps acquires quickly.
If haven’t used in a while, doesn’t do anything
Stays on as long as still paired with GPS

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Reradiator (August)

downstairs has one

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IBM Mash-up (QED wiki environment)

We have it, who wants to implement it?
Broadcast common username/password and everyone can work on it collectively when they have time
Volunteers: August, Vids, Sasank, Andrew

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