Crowdsourced Video of Malay Kids and Youth speaking on Preserving Mangroves shown at special event of Khazanah Megatrends Forum 2012 with attendance of Malaysian Prime Minister.
Thank you to my students Yongsoon, Gilan, Keijiro, and all the malay youth who uploaded their videos!
I will be speaking today at an event at Khazanah Megatrends Forum 2012 which is about preserving the mangrove sites in Iskandar region of Malaysia. It will be attended by many Malaysian leaders including Dato’ Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak is a Malaysian politician who is the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
I was asked to provide a new media interpretation about the topic only a couple of weeks ago. In such a short time it was difficult to think what to do. Initially I was thinking to provide some smell or taste media which would sync to a music score being written for the event by a famous composer Prof Nigel Osborne. I discussed with my Ph.D student to do something related to his smell media work. However, basically to do something that ambitious in such a short time would be almost impossible. I don’t like to give up, so then I began to think how could we do something which would reflect on new media. One of the key points of new media is internet and hyper-connectivity. So I thought, how about we make a crowd-sourced video. So I set up a Facebook page where I invited young people to upload a video about why they thought preserving the mangroves would be important.
Even a few years ago, to make a video clip asking the opinion of youth would require video equipment, editing tools, and digital conversion. It also would require one to go and interview the kids on location. To do that in a few days would be expensive and difficult. Now in our age of hyperconnectivity we could put the work out on social networks, and the kids were able to take their own video on their own devices such as phones, and instantly upload them onto the network. We could create a crowd sourced video in only a few days. The video was an example also of hyperconnected global work. My students in Tokyo collaborated with one of my Keio University Ph.D students who is in Singapore to edit the video while I was in San Francisco.
This short project was an example of the hyper-speed and hyperconnectivity of our network age. Humanity has never had the ability to share and create globally and in real time. It was a great way to bring the voices of the youth of Malaysia to the Khazanah Megatrends Forum which will be viewed by Malaysian Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z6-IoRRnoTHtcR980i8r0pwNpLZs9ycpzos5HoOOA8g/edit
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This year I have been Chair of the Mobile HCI Steering meeting, and at the MHCI conference in San Francisco on Saturday 22nd September 2012 we had the annual committee meeting.
Most of the meeting was fairly standard and smooth. Reports from the 2012 conference, update from the 2013 conference committee, etc.
We had to then vote for the location of the conference in 2014. There were four candidates. In the initial vote we had a dead tie for the first place. We then had more in depth discussions about the locations, the pros and cons of each in detail. We then had another vote, by secret ballot. This time again there was a tie. We had again more and more in depth discussions. We then went for another vote but we didn’t reach a conclusion. Basically, it was very difficult for all to agree on one, since we had such good candidates. It was the first time I chaired the MHCI meeting, so it was really interesting for me to try to guide these proceedings. I really appreciated the in depth and considered debates. It was really interesting yet exhausting. Finally after 3 and a half hours we decided to take a rest and decide at a follow up meeting. To me it seemed that often when trying to optimize a solution, especially in a human group, it is difficult to have a balance between analysis and decision. We need to have some kind of balance between explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge.
UPDATE: Please note the committee had a difficult time to decide because all the bids were so good. It was so difficult to find a clear winner with four excellent bids. Please keep watch for the official decision after the next meetings.
Photo of 2012 Steering Committee.
Adrian David Cheok (Professor of Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University) visited Korea on an invitation from the host of DMC 10th International Symposium on 13 September 2012.
This symposium invited renowned media artist and scholars to discuss the near future of emerging cities, and question values and conditions of media technology in new cities.
The audience was excited by his speech with interesting video clips.
http://www.seoulspeakers.co.kr/eng/news/sub_01_view.php?idx=28&m=01&lang=
Digital Media City (DMC) 10th International Symposium on 13 September 2012, Seoul. Keynote speaker and Panel Member Adrian David Cheok.
I have been thinking for a while about information overload. Modern life seems to be a never ending deluge of email and other information. One could almost spend their entire time answering emails and not doing any “real” work.
I had been thinking that communication is a basic need similar to food. If you think about babies, they could not survive without communication, similarly to they could not survive without food.
However, I had hypothesized that unlike food, our brain has no natural ability to know then there is too much communication. I think this is because in all of human history we have never had the situation where we could have too much communication. For hundreds of thousands of years of human history when our brain developed we were in small groups in a hunter gatherer society. Some studies estimate the small groups would be about 30 to 50 people. Thus we had a natural limit to communication. Unlike food, where we have a brain signalling system when we have over consumed (and we feel full), our brains would never have to evolve a signal that there has been enough communication consumption.
Our hyperconnected era is a tiny sliver of human history, too short for evolution. Therefore our brain has not had a chance to signal too us when there is too much communication. Thus I think this leads us to become addicted to the limitless communication of email, twitter, facebook, youtube etc. If you are like me, you also have a growing, backlog of videos to watch later on youtube, Ted. An ever increasing number of articles to read on “Pocket”. Let alone the media in our physical world, such as hundreds of unread books and hundreds of unwatched videos.
This talk on Ted seems to address these concerns partly by stating that food and information are essentially a very similar basic consumption to the human body. There is a very interesting research mentioned to say that at the basic level metabolism is the same for primates so there is a trade off between tissue to process food (our stomachs) and tissue to process information (our brains).
The hypothesis that we didn’t evolve abolity to have a brain signal for too much consumption needs more research by evolutionary biologists (I would greatly appreciate if anyone would like to contact me to discuss this). However at this stage I think we can say that information is similar to consumption of food. Too much is not good for you, and in fact destructive to your health. Because we do not have a natural brain signal to notify we have consumed too much information (as in food), we need to consciously force ourselves to have a limit (and to have a diet etc.).