anyMeta 4.19.3 - Atom module 0.3.22012-02-16T15:30:39+01:00http://www.mediamatic.net/feed/atom/9748/enRFID Workshop "Internet of Things"http://www.mediamatic.net/id/119442011-07-13T12:06:10+02:00RFID and the Internet of Things14 | 15 | 16 November 2006<p>RFID & The Internet of Things is a workshop for a maximum of 16 designers and artists who want to learn more about RFID and its possible effects and uses.</p><p>A group of great international speakers guide the participants through technical, social, cultural and political RFID issues. Participants make their own prototype of an RFID application or scenario, in which the virtual and the physical world are joined.</p>
<p>RFID plays a pivotal role in joining the physical world with the digital. An object tagged with an RFID chip has a unique digital identity. Any kind of online data can be linked to these unique ID's. Here is where the real world and the internet become two faces of the same reality. Things go online, in other words, an internet of things evolves.</p>
<p>During the workshop participants can mould their ideas into working prototypes, allowing them to partake in the whole process; from 'idea' to (potential) 'product'. Workshop projects may range from new ways to personalise objects, to funny locative applications or world-wide sustainability scenario's.<br/>
Mediamatics' RFID powered Symbolic Table as well as the Nokia 3220 RFID phone will be amongst the available tools for participants to use, test and play their ideas on.</p>
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</a><span class="caption-inline"><span class="title"><a title="Click to get a larger image - tagged portrait picture with RFID - Mediamatic.net" href="/11730/en/tagged-portrait-picture-with-rfid">tagged portrait picture with RFID</a></span></span></span> </p>
<h2>Trajectory</h2>
<p>The morning sessions are dedicated to lectures on current technology, theory and implementations of RFID and Internet-of-Things concepts. In the afternoons participants will develop their own projects. Experienced staff will be present for technical and conceptual assistance. The workshop ends with an informal presentation.</p>
<h2>Confirmed lecturers and trainers:</h2>
<h3>Melanie Rieback (US, NL)</h3>
<p>Melanie Rieback wrote the worlds' first <a href="http://www.rfidvirus.org/">RFID virus</a> and is mainly involved in the <a href="http://www.rfidguardian.org/">RFID Guardian Project</a>, a collaborative project focused upon providing security and privacy in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems. The RFID Guardian is a mobile battery-powered device that offers personal RFID security and privacy management. Rieback is last year PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. </p>
<h3>Julian Bleecker (US)</h3>
<p>Julian Bleecker is a Research Fellow at the University of Southern California's Annenberg Center for Communication and an Assistant Professor in the Interactive Media Division, part of the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. His work focuses on emerging technology design, research and development, implementation, concept innovation, particularly in the areas of pervasive media, mobile media, social networks and entertainment, and he is one of the main theoreticists on The Internet of Things. <br/>
In his lecture he'll speak about the currently existing elements from which an internet of things seems to be evolving, and what it could mean to live surrounded by an internet of things. </p>
<h3>Arie Altena (NL)</h3>
<p>Arie Altena writes about art and new media for various magazines; lectures at art academies; studied Literary Theory; worked at Mediamatic; was editor of Mediamatic Magazine and Metropolis M; co-organized the festivals Sonic Acts X and XI; <br/>
In 2006 he is a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. His blog-research, entitled In the Loop, is part of the Ubiscribe-project.<br/>
In his talk he will into the life of data-clouds, in the context of the convergence of Web2.0 and networked RFID systems. </p>
<h3>Rob van Kranenburg (NL)</h3>
<p>Rob van Kranenburg is senior lecturer Ambient Experience Design (HKU, KMT) and program manager at the Virtueel Platform. He is a longtime critical follower of the developments around ubiqitous computing and RFID. In the workshop he'll go the current state of affairs around RFID implementations. He will discuss the ways in which old and new stakeholders deal with the most important issues, and deduct a prediction about 'where it's going'.</p>
<h3>Chris O'Shea (UK)</h3>
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Chris O'Shea is an interactive media artist and independent researcher. He constructs models of interaction that borrow from toy design and video games, to create play situations within virtual environments and in tangible devices.<br/>
His presentation will be on creating interaction outside the keyboard and mouse, into physical spaces and tangible objects, and discuss possibly ways in which RFID can be used to facilitate these ideas. You'll find a website on Chris' own works <a href="http://www.chrisoshea.org">here</a>. And his blog where he discusses other people's works is <a href="http://www.pixelsumo.com">here</a>.</p>
<h2>Reader</h2>
<p>The <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/article-9691-en.html">reader</a> for this workshop is online.</p>
<h6>Workshop Report</h6>
<p>by <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/person-3337-nl.html">Klaas Kuitenbrouwer</a></p>
<p>A group of crucial thinkers and makers from various RFID related area's gathered to contribute their insights to the workshop RFID & The Internet of Things (Mediamatic's 4th RFID related workshop). Programmer Melanie Rieback, media analyst Rob van Kranenburg, cultural critic Arie Altena, media professor and internet-of-things thinker Julian Bleecker and interactive artist Chris O'Shea were present at the workshop.<br/>
Their stories and experience guided the participants through technical, social, cultural and political RFID issues. Participants made their own prototype of an RFID application, blending the physical and virtual world in quite unexpected ways.</p>
<h6>In short</h6>
<p><em>Melanie Rieback</em> gave an overview on RFID technology, and discussed the serious security issues related to RFID, one of which she has demonstrated with her famous RFID virus. <br/>
<em>Rob van Kranenburg </em> developed a picture of the major stakes of the big players in the RFID development, and stressed the urgency to come up with viable alternative uses when its still possible to have a large impact. <br/>
<em>Chris O'Shea</em> a interactive media artist looked into the merging of physical and digital space from the perspective his own work as an interaction artist. He went into tangible interfaces, operating systems for houses, and cybrids, hybrid physical and digital objects. <br/>
<em>Arie Altena</em> investigated how blog software and bloggers mutually influenced each other, and together triggered the 'blogosphere', and drew analogues with the possible development of social RFID systems. <br/>
<em>Julian Bleecker</em> discussed a series of current products and practices that can be understood as precursors of an Internet of Things. He presented his view on how the mix of 1st existence (meatspace) and 2nd existence (digital space) will develop. </p>
<h6>What was made</h6>
<p>Duncan Shingleton and Kostya Leonenko developed a very interesting project in which online data can only be accessed at specific physical locations. <br/>
A small and relatively secret international network of users, uploads useful information for no-budget travellers, (e.g. 'free diners there-and there 20.00 hrs on saturdays') and makes the information accesible only through RFID tags at specific places that work as decryption keys. Users rate the value of available information and can only access information if they have contributed useful information themselves. </p>
<p>Vincent Teeuwen and Juriaan Moolhuysen from the HKU worked on their project <em>Yo! Opera.</em> Ultimately they came up with a way to use RFID to turn a exhibition space into a dynamic musical instrument that can be played by multiple tagged players simulteneously. </p>
<p>Dominiek ter Heide, Peter de Ridder and Richard Bosch from <em>Fresh Deuce - HvA</em> presented a digital/realworld object hunt that is happening across the whole world. All players can also contribute objects and clues about its current location. The more interesting the location the object is found at the higher the score for the one finding it. The objects all carry unique RFID tags, so that when they are found the database automatically updates the world wide highscore. </p>
<p>Alexander Zeh, Bart Groen, Kasper Oostendorp and Ronald Lenz wanted to find out how RFID could be used to create an alternative value for objects. By tagging everyday objects with read/write RFID tags and proposing the connectivity of present mobile phones to make network connections, the possibility would arise to gain insight into the social environment of the objects, the amount of attention they recieved, and to script all kinds of behaviours in relation to occurence or absence of certain objects. </p>
<p>Marinus de Vries was working solitary over the course of the workshop, with assistance of Klaas, Slava and Julian in order to determine what RFID might mean for his <a href="http://www.tschumipaviljoen.org">Tschumipaviljoen</a> where he exhibits interactive art. The workshop came up with every useful way of using RFID tagged objects that can be sold all over Groningen, to trigger events in the Tschumipaviljoen. </p>
<h6>Detailed review</h6>
<h2>Day 1</h2>
<p>(by Bart Groen)</p>
<p>The first day of the workshop started with a presentation by <a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/~melanie/">Melanie Rieback</a> one of the VU scientists that shook up the RFID world by presenting the world's first RFID virus. Her presentation entitled ' RFID + Security' focused on security issues surrounding the use of RFID and the reasons why artists and designers should care about these issues.<br/>
Being the technical expert on the topic (compared to the other lecturers) Melanie starts out by giving a basic introduction of RFID technology, its uses and its history. Doing so she introduces the working of the tag, the working of the reader and how it found its way to popularity. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.virtueelplatform.nl/person-321-nl.html">Rob van Kranenburg</a> then continued by discussing the most important RFID related issues. He starts this out by stating that: “RFID is a strange space”. Since it's use will lead to three results: there will be no more public space; there will be no more memory loss and there will be no more people, just dataclouds. Because everything will be tracked, traced and saved, which will be the case when readers and tags are everywhere. If this is so, people will become mere descriptions of the things they're carrying with them, dataclouds.<br/>
Our society is headed this way since “people want security, they want camera's”. Rob then goes into some of the more technical aspects of RFID, here he mentions the ONS (as based on DNS) the Object Name Service. By which the connection to the internet of things can be made, for when all objects have a unique ONS number they are uniquely traceable throughout the world (e.g. with the data submitted to a central database you will be able to find every object everywhere). That’s why he states that: “RFID should be conceptualized from the reader or database” and not from the tag. <br/>
Because RFID might turn out to be the glue that binds the digital to the physical world.</p>
<p>After lunch its time for the final talk of the day: that of <a href="http://www.chrisoshea.org/">Chris O'Shea</a>, not so much an RFID expert but rather “an interactive media artist and researcher. His focus is on creating works that encourage new methods of play and collaboration, challenging our perception of space and physical objects”. And from this perspective asks the question how RFID can be used for exploration and play, outside of social, economic and privacy issues; the artistic perspective. He begins by showing us several of examples he encountered during his research where hybrids of physical and electronic space exist. For this he refers to Peter Anders' Cybrids, a term that signifies this merging of physical and digital space.</p>
<h2>Day 2</h2>
<p><a href="http://ariealt.net/">Arie Altena</a> kicks off day two with his presentation on “How the web became social (although it already was)” on the way his blog/publishing research relates to the topic of design for RFID. Arie notes that the technology is still in a state of infancy, therefore it might turn out to be something people will start using in the same way in which they are using computers right now. He relates this to how blogging as a way of using technology is not scaring, its easy, as opposed to the creating of technology, which still is scary or at least difficult. “What used to be distributed has now become packaged” in blogging technology, user and software come together, it connects to what people want to do. But what exactly is blogging, and how do users “use” personal publishing? The activity of blogging (or reading blogs) has and will become more and more externalized, as an example of this Arie mentions technorati where people can set their preferences (search for meta- tags) so they can get the information they want without ever having to have visited a blog (the search is aggregated in an RSS feed and as such delivered in their feed reader). Another example is the way in which users can send content to their blogs through their browser (via Flock or Flickr) or even from their mobile phone.</p>
<p>Last, but not least, is <a href="http://www.techkwondo.com/">Julian Bleecker</a> coiner of the term 'Blogject'. Julian's presentation has as its title “Internet of things, when 1st and 2nd life meet up”. This he sees as a joining together of 1st life (the human or physical world) and 2nd (the online or digital world). He questions what it means to create 2nd life experiences through 1st life actions. And this goes beyond the idea of the network, since it is “not about the network, its what you do with it”. Followed by “What would the social web look like when more and more network connected things start to participate?”. What is an internet (as a social web) when things start to participate and what do people do with these possibilities?<br/>
With these questions posed Julian dives into a load of examples and clarifications. The ITU (International Telecommunications Union) has published a report on RFID, which they titled: The Internet of Things, which is paradigmatic for the amount of interest there is for new technologies</p>
<h2>Day 3</h2>
<p>The workshop participants were teamed up in four teams, all with a different imperative, some had a prior interest and some were formed ad-hoc. The teams have spent parts of day 1 and 2 working on their ideas and projects. Day 3 was fully reserved for working on the projects. Resulting in the final presentations at 17:00. See <em>What was made</em> above for a summary of the projects. </p>
<h6>Conclusion</h6>
<p>The five lectures/talks/presentations have shown a common bond. Starting out from the critical technological point of view Melanie offered, showing that it doesn't take a whole lot of effort to make a change in the development of a new technology as RFID and that artists might prove themselves useful there. <br/>
Then Rob added a theoretical perspective in which notions of privacy were questioned and a world in which humans do need to take action if they don't want to be abstracted to dataclouds and in which the artists perspective was once more stressed as being one of the few people that have the opportunity to make a change. <br/>
Chris O'Shea showed that artists have loads of options in creating context awareness in visitors while using various technologies, about which they should be critical: don't use a technology just to be using it!. </p>
<p>Arie Altena added a layer of personal publishing and its issues for privacy which might have a likewise impact on RFID. Finishing this off with Julians combination of technology, life and the intimate link these two might embark on with the future (which may prove to be not so future) possibilities of networking objects and having these intervene in our daily life/social web.</p>Workshop Archive-4.9098252.3758ARTEFACTeventworkshop1http://www.mediamatic.net/id/111832009-06-25T15:13:07+02:00RFID & the Internet of Things2 faces of the same reality<p>RFID will play a pivotal role in fusing the physical world with the digital. RFID allows for the unique identification of objects, and any kind of online data can be linked to these unique ID's. <br/>
Here is where the real world and the internet become two faces of the same reality. Things go online.</p><p>Questions that come up: What are useful things to have online? How can the sharing of information between things yield us new valuable meanings and experiences? What new kinds of play can we think of, when our ordinary stuff begins to talk among itself? Will objects gain personalities? <br/>
And the key question seems to be: What are valid and imporant kinds of human agency that should be designed into an <em>Internet of Things?</em></p>
<p>The participants of this workshop will develop scenarios for an internet of things. Ideas can range from scripts for small new rituals to outlines of societal changes of epic scale. The critical, utopian or nightmarish scenarios will be informed by lectures with concrete knowledge about currently available technology; by handy workshop tools that give hands-on experience in developing RFID applications, and by insightful presentations by cutting-edge makers and thinkers. </p>
<h2>Speakers</h2>
<p><strong>Régine Debatty</strong> is the writer of the blog <a href="http://we-make-money-not-art.com.">we-make-money-not-art.com.</a> Her blog elaborates on artists, hackers and interaction designers who endeavour new technologies like RFID. In her talk she will give a broad overview of current artistic and cultural applications of RFID.</p>
<p><strong>Matthew Karau</strong> (former researcher at MIT MediaLab) has been working on numerous RFID related projects. He will give technical introductions on what RFID is and what it is or is not capable of, and will support the participants in developing their projects. </p>
<p><strong>Heiko Hansen</strong> is artist and one half of the duo HeHe, that makes <a href="http://www.hehe.org">beautiful projects</a> in which the technological systems that surround us are 'reverse engineered', and put to new critical usage and social functions. Using examples from HeHe's work, Heiko will go into agency in relation to ubiqitous computing and physical interfaces. </p>
<p><strong>Matthijs Kouw</strong> studies Science Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam and will present his research into the issue of making sense of the enormous reservoirs of new kinds of data that are generated by the wide implementation of RFID. </p>
<p><strong>Malcom McCullough</strong>, is Associate Professor of Architecture and Design, University of Michigan, and author of Digital Ground. Malcolm will talk about designing for human agency in a situation where (digital) interactivity has become ambient, and will discuss his theory of 'place' for interaction design. </p>
<p><strong>Rob van Kranenburg</strong> is senior lecturer Ambient Experience Design (HKU, KMT) and program manager at the Virtueel Platform. He is a longtime critical follower of the developments around ubiquitous computing and RFID. Rob will explore which attitude is necessary towards the next (expected) big issue around RFID: electromagnetic pollution, or EMF.</p>
<h2>Trajectory</h2>
<p>The workshop takes 3 days. The morning sessions are dedicated to lectures and presentations on technology, theory and interesting implementations of RFID. </p>
<p>The afternoons are dedicated to development of participants projects. <br/>
On the first day, participants will draw the outlines of their workshop projects, that will be developend and refined on the second and third day. </p>
<p> To test some practical aspects of their projects, participants can use the workshop tool consisting of RFID tags, readers and an online database. Experienced staff will be present for technical assistance. The workshop will be concluded with an informal presentation of all concepts developed during the workshop.</p>
<h2>Reader</h2>
<p>The <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/article-9691-en.html">reader</a> for this workshop is online. Come back for frequent updates.</p>
<h6>Workshop Report</h6>
<p>An interesting workshop about RFID and it's use, we will also had a look at the Internet of Things and how this evolves.</p>
<h2>Day 1</h2>
<p>The workshop kicked off with a lecture by Régine Debatty, writer of the well-known blog for art and technology we-make-money-not-art. She presented a dazzling overview of the growing number of projects using RFID technology. Project examples from Japan and Korea, where giant leaps in RFID developments are made, which are partly due to lack of regulations and privacy concerns. For instance the project of New Songdo City, the futuristic, massively scaled ubiquitous computed Korean ‘U-City’ triggered discussion on RFID as privacy-invading technology. Debatty expresses her feeling of privacy as ‘a lost battle’. Klaas Kuitenbrouwer added that combining collectivity with privacy means that protection of privacy should be upheld on other levels - the question here is not about privacy, but about agency.</p>
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</a><span class="caption-inline"><span class="title"><a title="Click to get a larger image - tagged portrait pictures with RFID tags - Mediamatic.net" href="/11727/en/tagged-portrait-pictures-with-rfid-tags">tagged portrait pictures with RFID tags</a></span></span></span></p>
<p>Matthew Karau, former researcher at MIT MediaLab, now freelance teacher, gave an introduction to the technical basics and facts as well as the limitations and benefits of RFID technology. Corporations are pushing the global standardization of Electronic Product Code (EPC) as well as RFID development to simplify and optimize their supply and distribution strategies. In developing RFID there’s a tendency of thinking it’s such an obscure technology, nobody will try to crack it. Being a controversial technology, RFID concerns mostly center on data security and privacy, proximity and costs as well as environmental issues. </p>
<p>Finale of the lectures on the first day, was a screening of a video on RFID and the Internet of Things by novelist Bruce Sterling at the 2004 Ars Electronica. Sterling, who was working on his essay Shaping Things at that time, emphasized the ‘need to determine the life cycles of objects’. He concludes quoting William Gibson’s great maxim: ‘The future is here, it’s just not well distributed yet.’</p>
<h2>Day 2</h2>
<p>Artist Heiko Hansen gave an overview of the work of HeHe.org (the artist duo he forms with Helen Evans). HeHe.org has a do-it-yourself approach to technology and builds installations that work with measurements of distance, sound pollution, energy consumption or changes in the electromagnetic field. HeHe.org works with ‘reverse engineering’ and many of its art projects are concerned with gesture and electricity. For Hansen, the power of using RFID in projects is that RFID makes things personal, it links multiple objects, and can trigger gesture-based interaction.</p>
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</a><span class="caption-inline"><span class="title"><a title="Click to get a larger image - tagged portait pictures with RFID - Mediamatic.net" href="/11728/en/tagged-portait-pictures-with-rfid">tagged portait pictures with RFID</a></span></span></span></p>
<p>Next was a lecture by Matthijs Kouw, who studies Science Dynamics at the University of Amsterdam. His concern was how to make sense of data related to tagged objects in an increasingly ubiquitous tech society? Since the motive for tagging is making flows of objects measurable, information should have reliability. Kouw elaborated on the backgrounds of data framing, social constructivism and differences between analytic and diagnostic history. His future research will include the semiotic question of visualizing flows of traffic in diagrams and making these flows ‘predictable’. Kouw points out that we are no longer capable of explaining, but need to experiment. </p>
<p>Finally Rob van Kranenburg, senior lecturer Ambient Experience Design, explored the environmental issues of electromagnetic pollution. Is radiofrequency-pollution a hype or paranoia? Van Kranenburg proposed an attitude that doesn’t say ‘we can’t have it’, but ‘it’s there, so how to deal with it?’ Although groups like CASPIAN take an ultimate anti-RFID position to such a limit that they sign off - we do need people like Katherine Albrecht in this discourse on emerging connective technologies.</p>
<h2>Day 3</h2>
<p>The third day provided a thought-provoking lecture by Malcolm McCullough, associate professor of Architecture and Design of the University of Michigan, on designing for human agency in a situation where interactivity has become ambient. Using the spread of electricity in the beginning of the century as metaphor for the current developments in ubiquitous computing, McCullough discussed how technological modernity transformed cultural experience throughout the 20th century and changed aesthetics on the way. What industrial design was for the 20th century, will be interactive design in our 21th century, and here McCullough made a strong case for situated design, as contrasted by design for anytime or anyplace. </p>
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</a><span class="caption-inline"><span class="title"><a title="Click to get a larger image - tagged portrait picture with RFID - Mediamatic.net" href="/11730/en/tagged-portrait-picture-with-rfid">tagged portrait picture with RFID</a></span></span></span></p>
<p>In the afternoons the participants digested all this through intense discussion and through the development of prototype projects and scenario's. Three projects were presented at the end of day three, using different workshop tools. One group analysed and realised one application of the Nokia3220 RFID enabled phone. They tagged portrait pictures with RFID tags, and wrote the phone numbers of those portraied onto the tags. This enabled a person using a Nokia3220 to call the person in the picture by just keeping the phone close to the photo. <br/>
A second group of participants used Mediamatic's Symbolic Table to illustrate a scenario in which Lonely Planet travell guides were tagged, and youth hostels around the world had a small RFID reader in the lobby. This little infrastructure was then to be integrated with Flickr, del.icio.us, and youTube. The possible implications of this simple and not too improbable proposition are hard to summarize, but ranged from always entirely up to date travel guides, to highly personalized traveling tips: 'the Long Tail of Tourism' and worldwide subcultures among young travelers. The last group worked out another tourism related idea, and developed a simple way in which generic souvenirs like Dutch China Wind Mills (if you went to Holland) can be personalized by tagging them and attaching your uploaded travel pictures, and video's to the tag. The whole collection of material would be online, so giving the souvenir to somebody else would be giving them access to all the travel stories.</p>Workshop Archive-ARTEFACTeventworkshop1http://www.mediamatic.net/id/96912007-12-13T13:44:23+01:00Reader for Hybrid World LabA collection of projects, theory and criticism on Hybrid World developments and RFID<h2>Locative-GPS</h2>
<h3><a href="http://www.geotracing.com/">GeoTracing</a>:</h3>
<p>is a software platform for creating multimedial geo-applications.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.bliin.com/">Bliin.com</a>:</h4>
<p>Bliin lets you share your location and geo-tagged photos from your handset in real-time. </p>
<h4><a href="http://craftwww.epfl.ch/research/catchbob/">CatchBob!</a>:</h4>
<p>An experimental platform in the form of a mobile game for running psychological experiments. It is designed to elicit collaborative behavior of people working together on a mobile activity.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.girardin.org/fabien/blog">7.5 floor</a></h4>
<p>A blog by Fabien Girardin used for his Ph.D. thesis on collaboration in the context of mobile and ubiquitous environments. A vast collection of material and insights on locative media, pervasive computing and more. </p>
<h2>Mashups</h2>
<p>Mashups are hybrids between various webapplication. A mashups is a website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.blinksandbuttons.net/buttons_en.html">Buttons</a>:</h4>
<p>takes on the notion of the camera as a networked object.</p>
<h4><a href="http://craftwww.epfl.ch/research/stamps/">STAMPS</a>:</h4>
<p>A system to facilitate Collaborative Annotations of a Map in a mobile setting. IThis can be seen as a form of `Spatialised' communication, which means that communication makes explicit usage of the geographical/physical context as referent to the message content.</p>
<h2>RFID / Unique Identification</h2>
<h4><a href="http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/itemlongdetail.cfm?item_id=3247/">Commission</a>:</h4>
<p>proposes a European policy strategy for smart radio tags.</p>
<h4><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6453931.stm">Smart tag policy</a>:</h4>
<p>European citizens are getting the chance to shape policy on smart tags.</p>
<h4><a href="http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1052405&dl=acm&coll=&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618/">PORTAL</a>:</h4>
<p>user experiences on combining location sensitive mobile phone applications and multimedia messaging.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.thinglink.org/">Thinglink</a>:</h4>
<p>is a free product code for creative work. </p>
<h2>Hybrid World</h2>
<h4><a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/cat_rfid.php">Making things talk</a></h4>
<p>Book review and information</p>
<h4><a href="http://proboscis.org.uk/endlesslandscapes/">Endless Landscapes</a>:</h4>
<p>a device for storytelling with myriad combinations.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/">Blast Theory</a>:</h4>
<p>The famous hybrid world theatre makers. </p>
<h4><a href="http://www.fusedspace.org/">Fused Space</a>:</h4>
<p> This was an international competition for new technology in/ as public space.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.argn.com/">ARGN</a>:</h4>
<p>Alternate Reality Gaming Network. Alternative Reality Games are game sin which the boundaries between game and non-game and between real and imganiginary and between the offline and the online are porous...</p>
<h2>RFID</h2>
<h4><a href="http://www.rfidjournal.com/">The RFIDJournal.com</a>:</h4>
<p>general resource on RFID technology (case studies, glossary, development). Includes an extensive <a href="http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/gettingstarted/">introduction</a> to the technical and historical roots of this technology.</p>
<p>An extensive glossary of RFID related terms by <a href="http://www.infologixsys.com/products/Retail/Resource-Center/RFID-Technology-Glossary-of-Terms/default.asp">ideologixsys.com</a>.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.aimglobal.org/technologies/rfid/resources/papers/rfid_basics_primer.asp">RFID primer</a></h4>
<p>of the Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility (AIM Global).</p>
<h4><a href="http://rfid-handbook.de/english/index.html">The RFID handbook</a> (2003)</h4>
<p><strong>By Klaus Finkenzeller</strong></p>
<p>Provides a very thorough analysis of the technologies related to RFID, and some of the technical challenges that are to be met. The book contains information on the industry standards and regulations. Furthermore, the book elaborates on the physical principles behind RFID technologies such as inductive coupling, surface acoustic waves and the emerging UHF and microwave backscatter systems. It contains an exhaustive appendix providing listings of RFID associations, journals and standards.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.zebra.com/id/zebra/na/en/documentlibrary/whitepapers/rfid_next_generation.DownloadFile.File.tmp/WP11315L_AIDC_R8_4.28.pdf?dvar1=White%20Paper&dvar2=RFID:%20The%20Next%20Generation%20of%20AIDC">RFID: The next generation of AIDC</a> (2005)</h4>
<p><strong>By Zebra Technologies</strong></p>
<p>Within the field of Automatic Identification and Data Capture applications, RFID is the fastest growing technology. Improving buisiness processes by RFID is the central theme of this article. Manufacturing, product security, warehousing, shipping, logistics, retail, libraries, cashless payment, and personal security are applications the author discusses. The benefits of applying RFID in buisiness processes are clear. Efficiency, reduced loss and improved service are a few of them. <a href="http://www.integratedlabeling.com/rfid/rfid.asp">See the section on White papers</a></p>
<h4><a href="http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/1508/1/1/">RFID and the media revolution</a></h4>
<p><strong>By Mary Catherine O’Connor</strong></p>
<p>O’Connor discusses futurologist Paul Saffo’s ideas on the impact of RFID on our personal lives. Saffo, a technology forecaster and researcher, assumes that “smartifacts" are essentially a “media revolution." Little helpers, which observe the world on our behalf, will change our relation to the physical world. The central question of his work is: What will a particular new technology cause in society and buisiness? Saffo not only looks at the benefits this new technology, but also pays attention to the disadvantages and changes it will bring in our everyday lives. </p>
<h4><a href="http://www.managementboek.nl/boekeninfo.asp?CODE=9044704501841413&ReferrerID=1">Innoveren met RFID. Op de golven van verbetering</a> (2004).</h4>
<p><strong>By Marcel van Trier and Jan Willem Rietdijk</strong></p>
<p>You can find everything about RFID in this book. Covering the history, development, and outlooks, the authors present the challenges RFID poses for the future. The book gives insights into the practical uses of RFID for IT- and buisinessmanagers. Ideas of how to use RFID in everyday life is given from the perspective of the practical world.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.elasticspace.com/">Elastic Space</a></h4>
<p><strong>By Timo Arnall</strong><br/>
Elastic Space is Timo Arnall's blog, posting about interaction design, RFID implementations and other locative technologies, he gives us a personal take on all these subjects.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.blackbeltjones.com/work/">Blackbeltjones</a></h4>
<p><strong>By Matt Jones</strong><br/>
Blackbeltjones is the personal blog of Matt Jones. Ranging from embodied interaction to H.G. Wells, Matt comments on all things blogged or locative.</p>
<h2>The Internet of things</h2>
<h4><a href="http://www.purselipsquarejaw.org/2006/03/internet-of-things-working.php">Reader on the Internet of Things</a>.</h4>
<p>Contains miscellaneous links.</p>
<h4><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4440334.stm">UN predicts 'internet of things'</a>.</h4>
<p>Changes brought about by the internet will be dwarfed by those prompted by the networking of everyday objects, says a report by a UN body. The study looks at how the use of electronic tags and sensors could create an "internet of things". </p>
<h4><a href="http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Ecommerce/rfid/">Toward a global “Internet of Things"</a> (2003)</h4>
<p><strong>By Steve Meloan</strong></p>
<p>Steve Meloan is journalist, writer and former software developer. In this article he explains the use, setup and possibilities of RFID. He explains the Electronic Product Code (EPC), a sort of IP adress for physical objects, and its relevance for tracking individual objects. RFID enables computers to recognize and identify many everyday objects and hence, create an ‘ internet of things’ . A challenging text which asks developpers to conceive of network devices as something which exists also outside the computer. </p>
<h4><a href="http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:RgZ18Ghvqk8J:magazine.digitalidworld.com/Nov03/Page66.pdf+Internet+of+Things&hl=en&client=safari">RFID and the internet of things</a></h4>
<p>Rfid gives us information about where things are and what is happening to them. We can use this information for creating an internet of things. With this new possibility we can link products to people for example and identify people and assets without human intervention, enabling computer systems to not only identify objects.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.rand.org/scitech/stpi/ourfuture/Internet/sec4_networked.html">The Networked Physical World</a></h4>
<p>Computer technologies are only useful when they have been brought into the circle of everyday life. People will discover the advantages of RFID and find new uses when they actually start using it. Creating a network of physical things will mark a new step in networking behaviour.</p>
<h4><a href="http://research.techkwondo.com/files/WhyThingsMatter.pdf">A Manifesto for Networked Objects</a> (2005)</h4>
<p><strong>By Julian Bleecker</strong></p>
<p>“Things" in the pervasive Internet, will become first-class citizens with which we will interact and communicate. Things will have to be taken into account as they assume the role of socially relevant actors and strong-willed agents that create social capital and reconfigure the ways in which we live within and move about physical space. </p>
<h4><a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10603">Shaping Things</a> (2005)</h4>
<p><strong>By Bruce Sterling</strong></p>
<p>Provides an introduction to the Internet of Things, and elaborates on the future of (industrial) design. The MIT Press website mentions the following: "The future will see a new kind of object -- we have the primitive forms of them now in our pockets and briefcases: user-alterable, baroquely multi-featured, and programmable -- that will be sustainable, enhanceable, and uniquely identifiable. Sterling coins the term "spime" for them, these future manufactured objects with informational support so extensive and rich that they are regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system. Spimes are designed on screens, fabricated by digital means, and precisely tracked through space and time." <br/>
Bruce Sterling also maintains a <a href="http://blog.wired.com/sterling/">weblog</a>. </p>
<h4><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764583352/qid=1115893137/sr=2-7/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_7/102-0874458-0596950">RFID and Beyond. Growing Your Business Through Real World Awareness</a> (2005)</h4>
<p><strong>By Claus Heinrich</strong></p>
<p>Claus Heinrich goes beyond the technical limitations of RFID to track the main effects RFID applications will have on business, the technical world, and society. The author expands the idea of RFID to coin the phrase of <em>Real World Awareness</em>. </p>
<h4><a href="http://www.ipc.on.ca/scripts/index_.asp?action=31&P_ID=15007&N_ID=1&PT_ID=11351&U_ID=0">Tag, you’re it: Privacy implications of Radio frequency identification technology</a> (2004)</h4>
<p><strong>By Ann Cavoukian</strong></p>
<p>In this reader, the privacy issue concerning RFID plays the central role. After a very clear explanation of the meaning of RFID, the working of the technology, the explanation of the types of RFID systems, and an introduction on the privacy topic, the terms RFID and privacy are combined. All the things we buy, every where we go, at what time, which website we visit and what we communicate can be registrated through RFID readers. Do we have to give up our privacy for the advantages of the new technology? How far are we willing to go at this point? </p>
<h2>Mapping Complexities</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc">VisualComplexity.com</a> intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.</p>
<h2>RFID and the use in everyday life: current implementations</h2>
<h4><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news4674.html">Lifestyle Monitoring</a>:</h4>
<p>Finish scientist have run a study on food information readable by mobile phones. Participants could gather product information about fat and carbohydrates apart from details of the production chain. Their purchase was synchronized with diet and workout schedules. This form of "Lifestyle Monitoring" could be extended to other fields of daily activity with RFID readers implemented in mobile phones. </p>
<h4><a href="http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/news/article.php/3345921">“Wi-Fi watches the kids"</a>.</h4>
<p>On the usage of RFID in Legoland.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.inf.ethz.ch/vs/res/proj/rfidchef/">RFID chef</a>.</h4>
<p>RFID Chef is a prototype application in the household domain that is used to experiment with various technical and methodological aspects in ubiquitous computing. It uses radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to connect real-world artifacts, like groceries, to a digital representation.</p>
<p><em> RFID will make life easier, work more efficient, and communication more direct. Things are easily traceable and important information about objects is quickly available. But how do we see the usability RFID in our lives? In other words, how can RFID be applied? Here are some projects with a logistical gist.</em></p>
<p>The number of RFID related projects, mainly in logistical and storage applications is growing by the day. The <strong> <a href="http://www.rfidgazette.org">RFID gazette</a></strong> offers a large categorized archive.</p>
<h4><a href="http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_16196.shtml">No more lost luggage</a></h4>
<p><strong>By Raquib Siddiq</strong></p>
<p>RFID tags are likely to make lost luggage a thing of the past. Schiphol airport (Amsterdam) and various international airlines plan to tag individual suitcases to retrace and direct them easily.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/23/HNrfidimplants_1.html">Siemens to pilot RFID bracelets for health care</a></h4>
<p><strong>By Ephraim Schwartz</strong> <br/>
<br/>
Rfid chips attached to the patient are more efficient for the medical staff. The patient’s personal information is read by an RFID reader instead of medical staff running to and fro between patient and computer. Similar to another project by <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39161907,00.htm">Verisign</a> , which currently tags hospital patients. Read more about how the Electronic PRODUCT Code could soon become an Electronic PERSON Code.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.notags.co.uk/">UK consumers against the pervasive use of rfid in our society</a></h4>
<p>RFID and it's disadvantages in everyday life.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.rfid-weblog.com/archives/the_internet_of_things.html">An RFID weblog</a></h4>
<p>“ This vision of the Internet of Things may sound like part of a sci-fi movie script, but scientists and technologists believe it is achievable -- sooner than you think.??? </p>
<h2>Non-logistical RFID Projects</h2>
<h4>Observe your children</h4>
<p>Several applications in Japan are geared to parents who want to keep track of their children. A system which sends SMS to parents, when children leave school was developed by <a href="http://ubiks.net/local/blog/jmt/archives3/003442.html">Tomas</a>. <a href="http://ubiks.net/local/blog/jmt/archives3/003623.html">Another example</a> are school uniforms with GPS tags. The only way to have some privacy? Take off your jacket! Also GPS School bags are becoming increasingly popular. With a tag on every item in the bag you don’t even have to open it, to know what’s inside.</p>
<h4><a href="http://curiouslee.typepad.com/weblog/2005/01/snif_social_net.html">Dogs as Networkers</a></h4>
<p>Not strictly an RFID application, but similar. Through a chip in a dog collar, your dog can be a social networker and establich connections for you to ... other dog owners. The system works through proximity and time parameters. Another gadget from the MIT kitchen.</p>
<h4><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news4674.html">Lifestyle Monitoring</a></h4>
<p>Finish scientist have run a study on food information readable by mobile phones. Participants could gather product information about fat and carbohydrates apart from details of the production chain. Their purchase was synchronized with diet and workout schedules. This form of "Lifestyle Monitoring" could be extended to other fields of daily activity with RFID readers impelmented in mobile phones.</p>
<h4>Keeping track of the tracks</h4>
<p>RFID tags in pavements help blind people to find the right way. Also handy in case of heavy snowfalls. <a href="http://ubiks.net/local/blog/jmt/archives3/003629.html/">Japanese town Aomori</a> runs a test case.</p>
<p>RFID tags as media are currently tested in <a href="http://ubiks.net/local/blog/jmt/archives3/003574.html">Japanese Town Asakusa</a>. Tourists can get information on buildings and sights by reading tags attached to them. An information environment attached to the physical world.</p>
<h2>RFID Art Projects</h2>
<h3><a href="http://netzspannung.org/cat/servlet/CatServlet?cmd=netzkollektor&subCommand=showEntry&lang=de&entryId=37274">Tracking Virtual Identity</a></h3>
<p><strong>By Nancy Nisbet</strong></p>
<p>A project by artist Nancy Nisbet investigating the relationship between technology and humans. Her main question is how rfid can be used to track movements of virtual personas and store associated data. She implants rfid chips in both of her hands to register her online behaviour via a reader in her mouse. A daring convergence of virtual and physical identity.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.finearts.ubc.ca/nisbet/new_work.htm">Exchange 2006</a></h3>
<p>is a project which features Nisbet's personal belonging being traded around the US in a truck which is supervised by RFID tags. A critique of privacy infringement, commercialization and the blurring of the public and the private body.</p>
<h3><a href="http://home.digital.udk-berlin.de/~jussi/projects/urban_eyes/main.html">Urban Eyes</a></h3>
<p><strong>By Jussi Angesleva and Marcus Kirsch</strong></p>
<p>Urban Eyes is a project on the surveillance of public space by cameras and RFID tags. Still in the planning, Urban Eyes is based on pidgeon travelling the urban space. Through a tag fed to them in granulated form they trigger cameras. The images are send to phones and PDA's allowing the feeder/user to track the pidgeon's path through the city.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.polarproduce.org/current.htm">MEASC</a></h3>
<p><strong>By Polar Produce</strong></p>
<p>Polar Produce is a Bristol based experimental art company that examines the growth of consumarism and mass ditribution by means of a live multimedia performace-installation called MEASC. In the performance visitors swap their Measc ticket for a map in which an RFID tag is embedded. As they walk around the space their tagged map is read and used to trigger multimedia content – sound, visuals, music and graphics. On top of this, 9 tagged performers from contemporary dance and theatre also interact with visitors, with the building and with each other.</p>
<h2>RFID Technology</h2>
<p>Tips and tricks on the techy aspects of RFID. </p>
<h3><a href="http://24.251.121.224:8000/~matt/rfid/Triggered_by_RFID_2.zip">RFID-related references</a></h3>
<p>Matthew Karau, former researcher at the Media Lab Europe and technical assistent at Mediamatic's RFID workshops, has made an extensive collection of useful links and papers available online for former and future workshop participants. His presentation about RFID technology, visuals and some Processing demo's are also included.</p>
<h3>RFID sets to buy</h3>
<p>If you want to practice with RFID material, and get your hands on an RFID-set, please read this information first.</p>
<ul>
<li>RFID kit information at <a href="http://www.sonmicro.com/shop3.php?current=7">Sonmicro</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sonmicro.com/index.php">Sonmicro</a> offers a RFID development kit/ RFID programmer SM2005-B5 for $69.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.transponder.de">Transponder</a> offers very basic rfid sets with all sorts of tags.</li>
<li>In the workshop we used the <a href="http://www.transponder.de">Development Kit TagTracer Multi.</a></li>
</ul>
<p> This kit costs € 200, =</p>-ARTICLEpublication1http://www.mediamatic.net/id/97672008-04-02T10:47:40+02:00Report on Triggered by RFID 2A recapitulation of the second Mediamatic RFID workshop, 7 - 9 November 2005<p>The second Triggered by RFID workshop hosted by Mediamatic continued to be the fruitful mixture of lectures about both technology and application as well as working on project proposals to understand the social and artistic implications of the upcoming widespread use of RFID technology.</p><h3>Day 1</h3>
<p>After being welcomed by Mediamatic’s Klaas Kuitenbrouwer and having had a small round of self-introduction of the very diverse group of participants, the three-day workshop started off with a lecture by Matthew Karau. Since he has been working as a researcher for the MIT Media Lab as well as for the Media Lab Europe, he has great expertise in working with and prototyping RFID-technology applications. Matthew gave an overview of the current state of the art in tags and readers, how the technology works, how artists can put it to use for their projects, were the limits of the technology currently are and, of course, how to overcome them. Different scenarios were laid out, including the industry’s motivation to use RFID as a replacement for conventional barcodes and the privacy-rights community’s concerns on that.</p>
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<p>Later that day, the Dutch artist Han Halewijn presented his project <a href="http://www.taggedspace.nl">Tagged Space</a> which was exhibited earlier this year in Apeldoorn. The installation was set up in conjunction with a sculpture exhibition in public space and its visitors were carrying tags which enabled them, just by walking around the area, to collaboratively write texts. The movement and “grounding??? of any individual person would generate color-coded words within a story which then later could be accessed online. RFID tags were handed out to the visitors, while RFID readers hidden in birdhouses were waiting to scan them. After the discussion about Tagged Space, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer moderated a roundup in which the participants had the chance to talk about RFID-related projects they might already have in mind, collecting thoughts and initial ideas, and also proposing the participants to form small groups in which they would continue to work on their ideas.</p>
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<h3>Day 2</h3>
<p>Day two started with a lecture by the notorious blogger Régine Debatty, whose <a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com">we-make-money-not-art</a> had swiftly become one of the main hubs for everyone who is interested about art and technology. Régine gave an overview of her own work as well as of the many RFID-related projects she had blogged about earlier, covering a wide range of different approaches and interests in the subject. This greatly helped the participants in getting an overview in what’s already been done and contextualizing their own work. After Régine, there was another presentation by Joost Broersen who had already been a participant in the first Triggered by RFID workshop and now re-turned to talk about the work that he had accomplished since. His main field of research is the subject of smart objects and spaces that are aware of what they are containing. He talked about the practical aspects of everyday usage of RFID technology, like the importance of being able to shut tags off and having a generally people-centered approach. Finally, Joost presented several designs for forms of interaction with and through common objects which would have great implications on everyday life and the organization of housing environments if realized. Matthew Karau continued with presenting a brief sketch of how to access an RFID-setup from the programming environment Processing, comprehensably explaining the example code he had prepared for the workshop and connecting some tags to read out their stored information.</p>
<p>Having worked on projects in groups after lunchbreak, also the second day was finished by a roundup of the current state of the individual participant’s or group projects. Despite everyone having listened to projects all day long, there was a lively discussion and lots of peer-critiques for almost every project.</p>
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<h3>Day 3</h3>
<p>The third and final workshop day was kicked off by Oslo-based designer and teacher Timo Arnall who is currently researching the graphic language of electromagnetic communication. He gave a very deliberate overview about what he sees as the most interesting aspects of visually tagging the city through all kinds of bottom-up forms of communication and wrapped up the subject by presenting his own designs for areas that are meant to be RFID-enabled. After Timo there was another slot for working on the projects. The last presentation was held by Daniel Van Gils who was, as the final presentation was scheduled later that day, talking more in-depth about prototyping projects, both conceptually and practically, when working with RFID technology. Daniel then stayed the rest of the day and was just like Mattew Karau available for hands-on help with the participants’ projects.</p>
<p>The workshop was closed by a presentation of all projects that have been conveyed by the different groups of participants over the three days. While some had pretty deliberate concepts worked out and were making plans for putting them into practice, three projects were actually already working as very simple prototypes.</p>Report on Triggered by RFID 27 | 8 | 9 November 2005<p>The second Triggered by RFID workshop hosted by Mediamatic continued to be the fruitful mixture of lectures about both technology and application as well as working on project proposals to understand the social and artistic implications of the upcoming widespread use of RFID technology.</p><h3>Day 1</h3>
<p>After being welcomed by Mediamatic’s Klaas Kuitenbrouwer and having had a small round of self-introduction of the very diverse group of participants, the three-day workshop started off with a lecture by Matthew Karau. Since he has been working as a researcher for the MIT Media Lab as well as for the Media Lab Europe, he has great expertise in working with and prototyping RFID-technology applications. Matthew gave an overview of the current state of the art in tags and readers, how the technology works, how artists can put it to use for their projects, were the limits of the technology currently are and, of course, how to overcome them. Different scenarios were laid out, including the industry’s motivation to use RFID as a replacement for conventional barcodes and the privacy-rights community’s concerns on that.</p>
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<p>Later that day, the Dutch artist Han Halewijn presented his project <a href="http://www.taggedspace.nl">Tagged Space</a> which was exhibited earlier this year in Apeldoorn. The installation was set up in conjunction with a sculpture exhibition in public space and its visitors were carrying tags which enabled them, just by walking around the area, to collaboratively write texts. The movement and “grounding??? of any individual person would generate color-coded words within a story which then later could be accessed online. RFID tags were handed out to the visitors, while RFID readers hidden in birdhouses were waiting to scan them. After the discussion about Tagged Space, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer moderated a roundup in which the participants had the chance to talk about RFID-related projects they might already have in mind, collecting thoughts and initial ideas, and also proposing the participants to form small groups in which they would continue to work on their ideas.</p>
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<h3>Day 2</h3>
<p>Day two started with a lecture by the notorious blogger Régine Debatty, whose <a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com">we-make-money-not-art</a> had swiftly become one of the main hubs for everyone who is interested about art and technology. Régine gave an overview of her own work as well as of the many RFID-related projects she had blogged about earlier, covering a wide range of different approaches and interests in the subject. This greatly helped the participants in getting an overview in what’s already been done and contextualizing their own work. After Régine, there was another presentation by Joost Broersen who had already been a participant in the first Triggered by RFID workshop and now re-turned to talk about the work that he had accomplished since. His main field of research is the subject of smart objects and spaces that are aware of what they are containing. He talked about the practical aspects of everyday usage of RFID technology, like the importance of being able to shut tags off and having a generally people-centered approach. Finally, Joost presented several designs for forms of interaction with and through common objects which would have great implications on everyday life and the organization of housing environments if realized. Matthew Karau continued with presenting a brief sketch of how to access an RFID-setup from the programming environment Processing, comprehensably explaining the example code he had prepared for the workshop and connecting some tags to read out their stored information.</p>
<p>Having worked on projects in groups after lunchbreak, also the second day was finished by a roundup of the current state of the individual participant’s or group projects. Despite everyone having listened to projects all day long, there was a lively discussion and lots of peer-critiques for almost every project.</p>
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<h3>Day 3</h3>
<p>The third and final workshop day was kicked off by Oslo-based designer and teacher Timo Arnall who is currently researching the graphic language of electromagnetic communication. He gave a very deliberate overview about what he sees as the most interesting aspects of visually tagging the city through all kinds of bottom-up forms of communication and wrapped up the subject by presenting his own designs for areas that are meant to be RFID-enabled. After Timo there was another slot for working on the projects. The last presentation was held by Daniel Van Gils who was, as the final presentation was scheduled later that day, talking more in-depth about prototyping projects, both conceptually and practically, when working with RFID technology. Daniel then stayed the rest of the day and was just like Mattew Karau available for hands-on help with the participants’ projects.</p>
<p>The workshop was closed by a presentation of all projects that have been conveyed by the different groups of participants over the three days. While some had pretty deliberate concepts worked out and were making plans for putting them into practice, three projects were actually already working as very simple prototypes.</p>Sascha Pohflepphttp://www.mediamatic.net/id/9751ARTICLEreview1http://www.mediamatic.net/id/91992010-09-08T16:13:30+02:00CrashCourse Triggered by RFID 27 | 8 | 9 November 2005<p>Triggered by RFID CrashCourse is designed as a Think-and-do Tank which explores RFID from an artist's/ designer's point of view.</p>
<p>Large logistical companies see RFID as the ultimate application for streamlining stock management and transportation. Activists expect RFID to strike a final blow to the notion of privacy. Philosophers see an "Internet of Things"? looming at the horizon, wherein each object has a physical as well as a virtual identity. Taken together these ideas challenge our concepts of relations between humans and objects.</p><p>Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is the barcode of the future. With RFID individual objects are equipped with a chip (an RFID tag), which can be read with an RFID reader from a range of up to several meters. To these tags a lot of desired (or undesired) data can be attached for a longer or shorter period of time. </p>
<p>Instead of waiting for and commenting on a next hype of services that allow us to do old things in new ways, this workshop aims to seize some initiative. <br/>
How can we make use of RFID in meaningful ways? What sensible or beautiful things can be done with RFID that couldn't be done before? How can RFID be applied in a social context, in urban projects, in interaction and experience design? How can we appropriate this technology for our own purposes? </p>
<p>In this workshop the participants design (creative) streetlevel uses of RFID. </p>
<h2>Trajectory</h2>
<p>The workshop will take 3 days. The morning sessions of the first and second day are dedicated to presenting interesting cases of RFID, delineating the range of possibilities as well as constraints of this technology. Subsequent lectures and discussions will frame social and philosophical dimensions of a changed communication environment.</p>
<p>On the first day, participants will get acquainted with the practical layout of an RFID environment. For this purpose an RFID set, consisting of tags, readers and a database, will be available. Participants can use this setup to test their own ideas and concepts. Experienced staff will be present for technical assistence. The workshop will be concluded with a presentation of all concepts developed during the workshop.</p>
<h2>Target Group</h2>
<p><em>Triggered by RFID</em> is made for a maximum of 16 designers, artists, thinkers and makers who are interested in this technology as a communicative tool. In this workshop you can try out the technology and develop first layouts of possible applications, alternative uses and hacks. </p>
<h2>Where?</h2>
<p>The workshop will take place in the seminar room of Mediamatic.</p>
<p><strong> The <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/article-200.9286.html">reader</a> for this workshop is online. Come back for frequent updates. </strong></p>
<h6>Workshop Report</h6>
<p>by <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/person-9751-nl.html">Sascha Sascha Pohflepp</a></p>
<p>The second Triggered by RFID workshop hosted by Mediamatic continued to be the fruitful mixture of lectures about both technology and application as well as working on project proposals to understand the social and artistic implications of the upcoming widespread use of RFID technology.</p>
<h3>Day 1</h3>
<p>After being welcomed by Mediamatic’s Klaas Kuitenbrouwer and having had a small round of self-introduction of the very diverse group of participants, the three-day workshop started off with a lecture by Matthew Karau. Since he has been working as a researcher for the MIT Media Lab as well as for the Media Lab Europe, he has great expertise in working with and prototyping RFID-technology applications. Matthew gave an overview of the current state of the art in tags and readers, how the technology works, how artists can put it to use for their projects, were the limits of the technology currently are and, of course, how to overcome them. Different scenarios were laid out, including the industry’s motivation to use RFID as a replacement for conventional barcodes and the privacy-rights community’s concerns on that.</p>
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<p>Later that day, the Dutch artist Han Halewijn presented his project <a href="http://www.taggedspace.nl">Tagged Space</a> which was exhibited earlier this year in Apeldoorn. The installation was set up in conjunction with a sculpture exhibition in public space and its visitors were carrying tags which enabled them, just by walking around the area, to collaboratively write texts. The movement and “grounding??? of any individual person would generate color-coded words within a story which then later could be accessed online. RFID tags were handed out to the visitors, while RFID readers hidden in birdhouses were waiting to scan them. After the discussion about Tagged Space, Klaas Kuitenbrouwer moderated a roundup in which the participants had the chance to talk about RFID-related projects they might already have in mind, collecting thoughts and initial ideas, and also proposing the participants to form small groups in which they would continue to work on their ideas.</p>
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<h3>Day 2</h3>
<p>Day two started with a lecture by the notorious blogger Régine Debatty, whose <a href="http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com">we-make-money-not-art</a> had swiftly become one of the main hubs for everyone who is interested about art and technology. Régine gave an overview of her own work as well as of the many RFID-related projects she had blogged about earlier, covering a wide range of different approaches and interests in the subject. This greatly helped the participants in getting an overview in what’s already been done and contextualizing their own work. After Régine, there was another presentation by Joost Broersen who had already been a participant in the first Triggered by RFID workshop and now re-turned to talk about the work that he had accomplished since. His main field of research is the subject of smart objects and spaces that are aware of what they are containing. He talked about the practical aspects of everyday usage of RFID technology, like the importance of being able to shut tags off and having a generally people-centered approach. Finally, Joost presented several designs for forms of interaction with and through common objects which would have great implications on everyday life and the organization of housing environments if realized. Matthew Karau continued with presenting a brief sketch of how to access an RFID-setup from the programming environment Processing, comprehensably explaining the example code he had prepared for the workshop and connecting some tags to read out their stored information.</p>
<p>Having worked on projects in groups after lunchbreak, also the second day was finished by a roundup of the current state of the individual participant’s or group projects. Despite everyone having listened to projects all day long, there was a lively discussion and lots of peer-critiques for almost every project.</p>
<p><span class="inline-image-wrapper ui_animateFigureCaption"><a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/222201/en/pop-up">
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</a><span class="caption-inline"><span class="title"><a title="Click to get a larger image - Report on Triggered by RFID 2 - Mediamatic.net" href="/9764/en/report-on-triggered-by-rfid-2">Report on Triggered by RFID 2</a></span></span></span></p>
<h3>Day 3</h3>
<p>The third and final workshop day was kicked off by Oslo-based designer and teacher Timo Arnall who is currently researching the graphic language of electromagnetic communication. He gave a very deliberate overview about what he sees as the most interesting aspects of visually tagging the city through all kinds of bottom-up forms of communication and wrapped up the subject by presenting his own designs for areas that are meant to be RFID-enabled. After Timo there was another slot for working on the projects. The last presentation was held by Daniel Van Gils who was, as the final presentation was scheduled later that day, talking more in-depth about prototyping projects, both conceptually and practically, when working with RFID technology. Daniel then stayed the rest of the day and was just like Mattew Karau available for hands-on help with the participants’ projects.</p>
<p>The workshop was closed by a presentation of all projects that have been conveyed by the different groups of participants over the three days. While some had pretty deliberate concepts worked out and were making plans for putting them into practice, three projects were actually already working as very simple prototypes.</p>
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</a><span class="caption-inline"><span class="title"><a title="Click to get a larger image - Report on Triggered by RFID 2 - Mediamatic.net" href="/9781/en/report-on-triggered-by-rfid-2">Report on Triggered by RFID 2</a></span></span></span><br/>
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</a><span class="caption-inline"><span class="title"><a title="Click to get a larger image - Participants working out RFID prototypes - Mediamatic.net" href="/9759/en/participants-working-out-rfid-prototypes">Participants working out RFID prototypes</a></span></span></span></p>Workshop Archive-4.9098252.3758ARTEFACTeventworkshop1http://www.mediamatic.net/id/95112008-02-26T09:52:44+01:00Report on Triggered by RFIDAfter the first Mediamatic RFID workshop from the 13th till the 15th of July 2005<p>Mediamatics' first Triggered by RFID workshop presented a mix of lecturers, cases, project proposals and technical lessons, and attracted an international group of artists, designers, engineers and educators that shared a desire to gain more insight and hands-on experience with RFID technology.</p><p>Half the participants were a good bit underway in developing their RFID related projects, allthough some of the project ideas really pushed the boundaries of what is possible with RFID today (if you don't happen to sit on big bags of money) The other half of the participants had registered to satisfy a more general desire for knowledge, contacts and ideas in relation to RFID. Rob van Kranenburg presented some of the social issues related to RFID and framed them in their techno-social context. Allthough privacy notions and -issues are obviously of great importance, not all of the wet dreams of world wide tracking-and-tracing seemed realistic for the near future. He called upon the participants to not only develop RFID applications, but also alternative scenarios for dealing with big scale RFID implementation that we will witness in the near future.</p>
<p>Van Gils, the main technical coach of the workshop, gave a quick run-through of the historical development of RFID technology and presented the current technical possibilities of RFID from the high-end worldwide logistical systems down to local do-it-yourself tools. What he made clear is that certainly at the low end of the market there are no standards for RFID techniques. Readers ('trancievers) become increasingly cheap, but vary greatly in performance. Tags ('transponders') come in a wide variety of flavours, all with different specs and optimal areas of application. He offered practical examples an tips on the use of low-end RFID equipment, demonstrated what is possible, and maybe even more important: what is impossible. To close the day, the participants re-formulated their research questions on the base of their new knowledge.</p>
<p>Alternative uses of RFID in everyday life was the main theme in the morning session of day 2. Techno artist Marcus Kirsch presented his RFID project proposal: Urban Eyes. Urban eyes is designed as a combination of two networks: the CCTV network and the pigeon population. Together they provide an alternative view on the city. Doves will be fed grains with embedded RFID chips, that trigger recording of monitoring cameras throughout the city, on the base of chips’ proximity.<br/>
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<p>Rogier IJzermans is a HKU student who writes his master thesis on a RFID usability scenario to be implemented in supermarkets. His presentation brought the workshop focus temporarily on designing alternative uses for existing implementations, instead of designing whole applications. None of the participants, however, pursued this into a workshop project. In the next workshop, we'll pay more attention to this 'alternative uses' line of approach. Daniel van Gils took the participants deeper into commonly available supporting technologies. Linking tag identities with the behaviour of mediafiles using Lingo, Max or Processing gave the basic set-up for a whole range of possible media installations in which objects or people can be tagged, and can thereby trigger events.<br/>
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<p>At the third and last workshop day, HKU students Virtual Theatre and Games, Sander Lammers, Nadia Karroue and Mark Post gave us a look behind the baffles of their RFID project Soundtrackers. Soundtrackers is a location game for kids, in which RFID tags are used to locate sounds in the game space. In the game, the sounds are emitted by invisible creatures that the players have to try to catch, and research at a lab. The clear research questions of the project helped to see the real possibilities and limitations of creative RFID projects. The next and last speaker, Matt Karau, brought his vision and extensive experience with RFID projects into the picture. Together with van Gils, he was able to bring all workshop projects a couple of steps ahead in their development. To name a few: Soundtrackers went home with a consise list of options for realising their plans. Valentina Nisi worked out the relation between the GPS part and the RFID part for her location based story project. Axel Vogelsang found out his project ideas were indeed feasable and assessed that RFID was the appropriate tecnology for his project. Markus Kirsch found out how to link a tag to camera behaviour, allthough the pigeons are not under control yet. And we're all looking forward to Robbert Ritmeesters burocracy projects, in which tagged paper will be moved around desks and trigger disastrous administrative procedures.</p>-Joost Broersenhttp://www.mediamatic.net/id/14162ARTICLEreviewpublication1http://www.mediamatic.net/id/92172009-07-23T15:57:08+02:00CrashCourse Triggered by RFID13 | 14 | 15 July 2005<p>Triggered by RFID CrashCourse is designed as a Think-and-do Tank which explores RFID from an artist's/ designer's point of view.<br/>
Large logistical companies see RFID as the ultimate application for streamlining stock management and transportation. Activists expect RFID to strike a final blow to the notion of privacy. Philosophers see an "Internet of Things" looming at the horizon, wherein each object has a physical as well as a virtual identity. Taken together these ideas challenge our concepts of relations between humans and objects.</p><p>Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is the barcode of the future. With RFID individual objects are equipped with a chip (an RFID tag), which can be read with an RFID reader from a range of up to several meters. To these tags a lot of desired (or undesired) data can be attached for a longer or shorter period of time. </p>
<p>Instead of waiting for and commenting on a next hype of services that allow us to do old things in new ways, this workshop aims to seize some initiative. <br/>
How can we make use of RFID in meaningful ways? What sensible or beautiful things can be done with RFID that couldn't be done before? How can RFID be applied in a social context, in urban projects, in interaction and experience design? How can we appropriate this technology for our own purposes? </p>
<p>In this workshop the participants design (creative) streetlevel uses of RFID. </p>
<h2>Trajectory</h2>
<p>The workshop will take 3 days. The morning sessions of the first and second day are dedicated to presenting interesting cases of RFID, delineating the range of possibilities as well as constraints of this technology. Subsequent lectures and discussions will frame social and philosophical dimensions of a changed communication environment.</p>
<p>On the first day, participants will get acquainted with the practical layout of an RFID environment. For this purpose an RFID set, consisting of tags, readers and a database, will be available. Participants can use this setup to test their own ideas and concepts. Experienced staff will be present for technical assistence. The workshop will be concluded with a presentation of all concepts developed during the workshop.</p>
<h2>Target Group</h2>
<p><em>Triggered by RFID</em> is made for a maximum of 16 designers, artists, thinkers and makers who are interested in this technology as a communicative tool. In this workshop you can try out the technology and develop first layouts of possible applications, alternative uses and hacks. </p>
<h2>How Much?</h2>
<p>The participation fee is €400 per person, excluding BTW. Lunches, technical equipment and assistence are included.</p>
<h2>Where?</h2>
<p>The workshop will take place in the seminar room of Mediamatic.</p>
<p><strong>To register for this course, fill out the <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/article-200.8471.html">online form.</a></strong> </p>
<p>You may cancel your registration until 10 days before the beginning of the workshop. In that case we will charge you € 45,= to compensate for administration costs.</p>
<p><strong> The <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/article-200.9286.html">reader</a> for this workshop and the full <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/article-200.9524.html">program</a> are online. Come back for frequent updates. </strong></p>Workshop ArchiveCrashCourse Triggered by RFID13 | 14 | 15 juli @ Mediamatic<p>Grote logistieke bedrijven zien in RFID de ultieme stroomlijning van voorraadbeheer en transport. Activisten verwachten dat RFID zal zorgen voor de definitieve opheffing van de notie van privacy. Filosofen zien via RFID een 'internet der dingen' aan de horizon opdoemen, waarin alle voorwerpen zowel een fysieke als een virtuele identiteit hebben.</p><p>Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is de barcode aan het vervangen. Met RFID krijgen objecten een unieke chip, (een RFID-tag) die met behulp van algemeen verkrijgbare tag-lezers leesbaar is van 10 centimeter tot maximaal 1 meter. Aan zo'n tag kan allerlei gewenste (en ongewenste) data gekoppeld worden, voor korte of langere tijd.</p>
<p>Wat kan er echt? Hoe werkt het? Wat kan RFID betekenen? Hoe eigenen we ons de technologie toe? In de workshop <em>Triggered by RFID</em> ontwikkelen de deelnemers hands-on creatieve en betekenisvolle toepassingen voor RFID. </p>
<h2>Traject</h2>
<p>De workshop beslaat drie dagen. In de ochtend van de eerste en tweede workshopdag worden uiteenlopende cases gepresenteerd die de reikwijdte van de techniek scherp neerzetten. Daarnaast worden in lezingen de sociale en filosofische implicaties van de techniek verkend. <br/>
Op de eerste dag worden de deelnemers verder wegwijs gemaakt in het praktische toepassing van RFID. Voor de workshop is een set RFID materiaal aanwezig (tags, lezers, database) waarmee ideëen en opstellingen kunnen worden uitgetest. De deelnemers worden hierbij geholpen door ervaren technische begeleiders. <br/>
De laatste workshopdag besluit met een korte presentatie van de ideëen van de deelnemers. </p>
<h2>Voor wie?</h2>
<p><em>Triggered by RFID</em> is bedoeld voor maximaal 16 ontwerpers, kunstenaars en andere makers en denkers die ‘triggered’ zijn door RFID. In deze workshop kunnen zij de techniek uitproberen en er ideëen mee ontwikkelen. </p>
<h2>Waar?</h2>
<p>De workshop vindt plaats in de workshop ruimte van Mediamatic. </p>
<p><strong>Online <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/article-200.8471.html">inschrijfformulier</a></strong></p>
<p>U kunt tot tien dagen voor aanvang van de workshop uw registratie annuleren. In dit geval brengen wij 45 Euro administratiekosten in rekening. </p>
<p><strong> Bekijk de <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/article-200.9286.html">reader</a> en het<a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/article-200.9524.html">programma.</a> </strong></p>-4.9098252.3758ARTEFACTeventworkshop1http://www.mediamatic.net/id/93152006-05-17T16:03:27+02:00Combining Doves and RFID<p>Marcus Kirsch, participant and lecturer at the workshop Triggered by RFID 2005</p><p>I am Marcus Kirsch, Technoartist, New Media Designer and Programmer.<br/>
I hold a BA in Graphic Design, an MA in Interaction Design from Royal College of Art in London, after which I worked as a researcher at the Media Lab Europe in Dublin and returned to London in 2002, where I now work as international artist, designer, programmer and consultant.<br/>
My work has been shown in England, Ireland and Holland on numerous events with a recent invitation to 2004 Seoul Biennale and as exhibiting artist and speaker at last year’s Rotterdam International Film Festival and DEAF Festival. My recent awards include a silver Art Directors Club NY and both a shortlisted project and a pricewinning project at 2004’s fusedspace.com international urban technology competition in collaboration with Jussi Angesleva.</p>
<p>I’ve participated to find out more about the technology's possibilities regarding my project URBAN EYES.</p>
<p>URBAN EYES, a conceptual service for the urban space, which combines our perception of the city with the one of the CCTV camera network and the pigeon population. With this workshop, I want to develop my ideas about my project.</p>
<p>The content of the workshop was dense enough for a three days workshop, yet the development part could have played a slightly bigger role. The organization left nothing to ask for and the speakers were diverse so that a broad introduction into different possibilities and approaches towards the technology gave enough ground for a fruitful discussion.</p>-ARTICLE1http://www.mediamatic.net/id/92722007-07-31T15:57:48+02:00Wearable Touch-tags<p>Joost Broersen, participant at the workshop Triggered by RFID 2005</p><p>My name is Joost Broersen. I am Student Interaction Design (Utrecht School of Arts - faculty Art, Media & Technology) </p>
<p>I have participated because: </p>
<ul>
<li>Hoping to hear about the use of RFID in tangible interfaces I was not yet familiar with / informed on</li>
<li>Trying to find answers on what the exact possibilities and limitations of RFID are.</li>
<li>Meeting other people who also interested in ways of using RFID outside of its intended use and learn about their experiences and projects.</li>
</ul>
<p>In this workshop I want to apply "touch-tags" (tags operating only when pressed upon thus connecting the antenna to the tag) for use in: </p>
<ul>
<li>a customizable tangible interface wherein users define functions to the tags and apply those tags in a way and location in order to control/access their environment/information</li>
</ul>
<p> In total the workshop gave me a good and rich experience. There was enough diversity in the speakers' content as well as in the background of the workshop's participants. Because of this diversity many different topics related to RFID were discussed and made clear to the participants. </p>
<p> The organization was good:</p>
<ul>
<li>enough information was provided through the website before the workshop started</li>
<li>all was arranged as I suppose it should be in a workshop</li>
<li>mailinglist and all the workshop's content was provided afterwards</li>
</ul>-ARTICLE1http://www.mediamatic.net/id/92802007-07-31T15:56:07+02:00How can digital technologies support new ways of telling stories<p>Valentina Nisi, participant at the workshop Triggered by RFID 2005</p><p>My name is Valentina Nisi. I have a background in fine art, media art and technology research. My research focuses on the design of interactive and distributed stories for public spaces, merging the place with the narrative<br/>
experience. How can digital technologies support new ways of telling stories.</p>
<p>The reason I participate in this workshop is that I’m interested in using RFID technology for creative purposes. For example in my projects about mobile location embedded stories.<br/>
<br/>
In the workshop I want to work on the Feasibility for integration of RIFD tags with GPS for location aware distributed stories and applications . In particular "the Media Portrait of the Liberties".</p>
<p>My current project, the "Media Portrait of the Liberties" is a<br/>
distributed location based narrative about an old Dublin<br/>
neighbourhood. Local stories, from M.Johnston's book "Around the banks<br/>
of Pimlico" serves as the basis for the media segments. A structure<br/>
emerges in the form of a map of stories superimposed to the map of<br/>
physical space. The media segments reveal "a sense of place" and are<br/>
delivered to the mobile audience in the location where the story<br/>
happened trought GPS enabled portable devices.</p>
<p>As a further step for the project I would like to combine GPS<br/>
technology with RFID tagging to add location and context aware<br/>
possibilities to the distributed narrative experience.</p>
<p>I think the workshop was very well organized logistically and content<br/>
wise. I’ve got very much out of it in terms of people I met, projects<br/>
discussed, and the technology I’ve learned.</p>-ARTICLE1