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By Predrag K Nikolic, Adrian David Cheok
Design in its different appearances such as for objects, services, environments etc. has potential to influence human behaviour and could create desirable as well as undesirable change. Design has long history in its intentions to act upon positive changes in human perception and lifestyle. Hence, Designing for Behavioural Change can be perceived through early understanding of behavior where person’s behaviour is reflection of his or her own personality, or other ‘internal’ factors and the physical and social environment.
Design for Behaviour Change as an approach is already accepted in several key areas such as ecology, safety, health, and well-being as well as widely adopted in social design. This project explores potentials of interactive media technology, public spaces and interaction media art and design as potential drivers for behaviour changes and social innovations. For this purpose, we developed interactive installations InnerBody and Before and Beyond that aims to provoke behaviour change and design aesthetic and emotional users’ experience, by allowing them to “escape the limitations of existing structures of meaning and expectation within a given practice”. Throughout this projects, we are proposing usage of Interactive Media Art & Design as part of design method capable of transforming public space into the environment for user behavioural change and lead to sustainable design choice for future development of living environments.
By Predrag K. Nikolic, Adrian David Cheok, Sasa Arsovski, Ruhiyati Idayu, Murtadha Bazli
Project Meeting Points is conceptualize as set of philosophical discussions between two robots . In its first appearance, conceptual pillars for the discussions are philosophical stand points of Aristotle and Nietzsche considering various topics. We used several criteria to select them for our first Meeting Points; importance of the historical periods they were belonging as leading thinkers of their time, improbability to compare their opinions about virtues and human characters, significant influence on revolutionary Renaissance and Dadaistic art movements. As such, It is historical and epical discussion between Aristotel’s Ethical Robot (Magnanimous) and Nietzche’s Overman Robot (Übermensch).
The Interactive Installation Meeting Points does not have any pretensions to be classified as artwork but rather “anti-art” as tends to criticize contemporary aesthetic, cultural and social changes as result of mutual interaction between people and technology.
Central characters of this interactive socio-critical drama are Ethic Robot and Overman Robot. The first one is feed with knowledge collected from some of Aristotle’s main publications such as Nicomachean Ethics, Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics and second one from Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Antichrist, Beyond Good and Evil , The Birth of Tragedy and Ecce Homo.
We are trapped in circles of information, without facts only with interpretations, as Ethical Robot and Overman Robot are trapped on the roundabout of meanings, symbols, and metaphors they are mixing but do not understand, without facts only machine interpretations. As such tragedy in the installation Meeting Points: Übermensch and Magnanimous is all about how to destroy and rebuild our knowledge and technology addicted society till something good come up.
Key technical novelty presented in Interactive Installation Meeting Points is the combination of chatbot technologies and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) models that will enable reinforcement learning in order to create artificial conversational agents who will achieve human level performance. The fact, that things can communicate with each other and with the humans enables unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning and knowledge multiplying opportunities.
The Neural Conversational Agent technologies allows us to transform everyday “things” into “smart objects” that can understand and react to their environment. A step further in defining the architectural principles of “smart objects” are cloud speech recognition and speech synthesis technologies that allow increasing the interactivity and raise the level of interaction between people and “smart objects”. Motivated by the technological era in Interactive Installation Meeting Points, we will use two Neural Conversational Agents. In order to create philosophical discussions between two robots, we will use Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) models [5]. RNN are a character-level language models.
We will train RNN with a Nietzsche and Aristotle chosen texts and RNN will model the probability distribution of the next character in the sequence given a sequence of previous characters. Hence, this will allow us to generate new text one character at a time as shown on (Figure 1). An example RNN with 4-dimensional input and output layers, and a hidden layer of 3 units (neurons) from [5] We will use standard Softmax classifier [6] and RNN will be rained with mini-batch Stochastic Gradient Descent [7]. Applying the chatbot technology using as conversation base created Neural Network Nietzsche and Aristotle models we will create a Neural Conversation Nietzsche cyber clone and Neural Conversation Aristotle cyber clone (Figure 2).
Those avatars will be deployed to the two separated internet access points. Using a Raspberry pi devices, we will connect robots (smart objects) with Neural Conversation clones access points (robot brains) and enable philosophical discussions between two robots using a Neural chatbots, speech recognition and speech synthesis technologies.
By applying this concept, things converted to the “smart objects” will obtain a distinctive personality, intelligence, and decision-making ability. Key novelties in the Installation Meeting Points: Übermensch and Magnanimous are:
CeBIT is the largest and most internationally represented computer expo. The trade fair is held each year on the Hanover fairground, the world’s largest fairground, in Hanover, Germany.
Title: Everysense Everywhere Human Communication
Date: 21 Mar. 2017
Speaker: Prof. Adrian David Cheok
More detail: http://www.cebit.de/event/everysense-everywhere-human-communication/KEY/74779
By GOVTECH SINGAPORE – 15 March 2017
https://www.tech.gov.sg/TechNews/Innovation/2017/03/Touching-technology-in-the-flash
Dr Anders Ynnerman moves his hands over the images on the touchscreen, slicing, dicing and rotating, revealing layer upon layer of skin, muscle and bone.
The audience watches in awe.
They’re looking at a full-body scan of a traffic accident victim, and they can see every injury in larger-than-life detail, including the cause of death: a broken neck, caused by a blow to the head.
Dr Ynnerman, a scientific data visualisation expert and the director of the Norrköping Visualisation Centre in Sweden, was speaking at a session on virtual and augmented reality (AR/VR) at EmTech Asia.
The conference, organised by the MIT Technology Review to explore global emerging technologies, was held in Singapore from 14-15 February 2017.
These full-body scans or ‘virtual autopsies’, he said, are treasure troves of medical data; he takes great care to present them with the utmost respect for the persons who died under tragic circumstances.
The datasets are generated through computerised tomography (CT) scans, which produce around 25,000 slices of data that together form a full virtual replica of the human patient.
Dr Ynnerman uses mathematics and computer graphics to combine these slices into a huge block of data that can be visualised in three dimensions, and manipulated using touch interfaces.
The technology is clearly a huge boon for medical schools and hospitals.
But he quickly realised its potential for communicating science to the general public. His team has gone on to scan all manner of museum artefacts, including Egyptian mummies, fossils and a wide range of animal specimens.
They have placed touchtable devices in museums around the world — including the Science Centre Singapore — for visitors to interact and play with the data.
“We’ve gone from very basic mathematical principles all the way out into the museum gallery. I see children exploring scientific data. When they interact with it they’re getting interested in the content, but they’re also getting interested in the technology.”
Dr YnnermanìI added: ” That’s the best reward you can get as a professor. Seeing kids playing with your stuff is much more important than getting citations and papers!”
Also speaking at the session was Dr Adrian David Cheok, director of the Imagineering Institute in Malaysia and Chair Professor of Pervasive Computing at the City University of London.
(Dr Cheok was formerly a professor at the National University of Singapore, where he founded the Mixed Reality Lab; it has since moved to London.)
Because non-verbal interactions make up a large part of how humans communicate, talking to someone over the internet still pales in comparison to meeting him or her in person, said Dr Cheok.
Thus, his goal is to develop tools that let us perceive the world through the internet using all of our five senses including touch, taste and smell.
“In the future, we’ll move from the age of information, where we are today, into the age of experience,” he said.
“You can share any experience through the internetóyou can feel, taste and smell what it’s like to be anywhere in the world.”
His group has developed a range of devices aimed at letting you do just that.
For those who crave touch, there is the Huggy Pajama, a wearable device that lets parents and children exchange virtual hugs.
More recently, the group introduced the Kissenger, which does exactly what you think it does — the silicon lip-like device connects to your smartphone and lets you kiss someone over the internet.
Besides touch, the senses of taste and smell are also powerfully evocative.
“Taste and smell are directly intermingled with the limbic system of the brain, which is responsible for emotion and memory,” said Dr Cheok.
“For example, smell can trigger a memory of your grandmother, or trigger an emotion — it can make you feel happy or sad if the same smell has done that in the past.”
Engineering taste and smell, however, is no trivial task.
Dr Cheok’s team has developed smartphone devices that let users send their friends smells over the internet; these involve the use of an atomiser and scent cartridges. But such devices have drawbacks — only one smell can be sent per cartridge, and cartridges have to be replaced once they run out of scent.
Thus, instead of resorting to chemicals, Dr Cheok is working on ways to directly stimulate the tastebuds or olfactory (smell) receptors.
By placing an electrode on your tongue, for example, he can deliver electrical signals that make you taste something sour; yet another device generates a sweet taste by stimulating the appropriate receptors on the tongue with heat.
Similarly, the team has also tried to electrically stimulate the olfactory receptors inside the nasal cavity to recreate smells.
Wearing this device, however, is still a little uncomfortable.
Although such devices may not be available on the mass market just yet, Dr Cheok believes that it is only a matter of time before they find their way into our homes.
“People really want to experience all of the five senses — they want to be able to have dinner with their grandmother even if she’s on the other side of the world.”
By CUBADEBATE – 12 marzo 2017
Kissenger. Photo taken from ERIZOS.
Computer expert Adrian David Cheok has created the Kissenger prototype, an invention that will allow long-distance kissing, according to the BBC .
According to Cheok, who heads the Imagineering Institute in Nusajaya Johor , Malaysia, while the initial idea was a device to connect families, “the greatest interest comes from couples” living separately.
“The initial prototype was born in 2003 and after several tests, in 2015, they reached the current design, consisting of a phone casing that connects to the audio jack of the iPhone, iPod or iPad,” he explained.
The creator said that the application will only be available for devices that have the iOS operating system and although the device is in its prototype phase, it is expected that by the end of the year will hit the market.
Kissenger comes from the combination of ‘Kiss’ (kiss) and ‘ssenger’ (short for messenger).
For affective communication to take place, the two participants must have the device and download the application.
The phone is inserted into the holder which contains a silicone area with high precision force sensors capable of measuring the force exerted by the lips during the kiss.
Then, through the application, the device sends this data in real time to the recipient’s device.
(With information from Prensa Latina)
By UnoTv – 09/03/2017
Kissenger es el nombre del gadget que permitirá besar a seres queridos aunque se encuentren en partes distintas del mundo. El nombre es la combinación de la palaba “kiss” (beso) y “-ssenger” (abreviatura de Messenger, que quiere decir mensajero).
Las dos personas que deseen “intercambiar” besos, deben contar con el dispositivo y descargar la aplicación. El teléfono debe ser introducido en el gadget, el cual tiene silicona con sensores de fuerza de alta precisión, los cuales miden la fuerza que utilizamos en los labios durante un beso.
Esos sensores mandan los “datos” a la app del celular, el cual los transmite gracias a Internet, en tiempo real al otro celular.
Adrian David Cheok, creador del Kissenger, le dijo a la BBC que el dispositivo está en su fase de prototipo pero se espera que a finales de 2017 salga al mercado. La aplicación solo estará disponible para dispositivos con el sistema operativo iOS
Según reporta la publicación, el precio estaría cerca de los 100 dólares.
By T13 – Miércoles 08, Marzo 2017
http://www.t13.cl/noticia/tendencias/tecnologia/te-animarias-besar-asi-es-kissenger-y-como-funciona
El Kissenger es un gadget que se conecta al teléfono inteligente y simula besos que pueden ser enviados a cualquier parte del mundo. Se espera que salga al mercado a fines de esta año con un costo de US$100.
“Besos por celular”, dice el tema musical de Spaghetti del Rock de la banda argentina Divididos.
Y todo parece indicar que los desarrollos tecnológicos quieren llevar al envío de un beso por el teléfono a un terreno más avanzado: el de sentirlo.
El Kissenger es un gadget que resolvería este problema que atraviesan las parejas que mantienen relaciones a larga distancia, a familiares que viven en diferentes países y, por qué no, conectar a fans con sus ídolos en cualquier parte del mundo.
“Cuando era niño tenía a mis abuelos a una cuadra de mi casa, pero no todos corren con la misma suerte y eso me motivó a pensar en un dispositivo para conectar a las familias”, describió Adrian David Cheok, profesor de computación y creador del Kissenger.
De todos modos, Cheok le contó a BBC Mundo desde Malasia que “el mayor interés proviene de las parejas” que viven separadas.
El nombre Kissenger surge de la combinación de “Kiss” (beso, en inglés) y “ssenger” (abreviatura de messenger: mensajero).
Para que la comunicación afectiva se concrete, los dos participantes deben tener el Kissenger y descargar la aplicación.
El teléfono se introduce al artilugio que contiene un área de silicona con sensores de fuerza de alta precisión.
Estos sensores tienen la capacidad de medir la fuerza que ejercen los labios durante el beso.
Entonces, el dispositivo envía estos datos a la app del teléfono que a su vez los transmite por Internet en tiempo real al aparato del destinatario del beso.
El Kissinger también cuenta con sensores miniatura que reproducen los datos sobre la fuerza que ejercen los labios de quien envía el beso.
Y de esta manera, el Kissinger crea una sensación de beso realista.
El Kissenger no siempre tuvo este tamaño y forma.
“El dispositivo inicial nació en 2003. Era un cabeza con labios y la verdad tenía un aspecto espeluznante“, le dijo Cheok a BBC Mundo.
Después de varias pruebas, en 2015 llegaron al diseño actual del Kissenger: una una carcasa de teléfono que se conecta a la toma de audio del iPhone, iPod o iPad, y cuya app solo estará disponible para los dispositivos que cuenten con el sistema operativo iOS.
Según Cheok, que dirige el Imagineering Institute en Nusajaya Johor, Malasia, el dispositivo está en su fase de prototipo pero espera que a fin de año salga al mercado.
¿Su precio? cerca de US$100, “o tal vez menos”, señaló su creador quien aseguró que recibe al menos 30 pedidos diarios de todo el mundo para conseguir el dispositivo.
Habrá que esperar entonces para experimentarlo. Pero, ¿te animarías a besar así?