Steve Mann running for Toronto mayor...
Beyond Metaverse... IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, Call for Papers

Join us for the Mayoral Candidate's Debate at Micheal Hough beach, Toronto's cleanest beach under threat of privatized development...

Petition to save downtown Toronto's only beach which is also Toronto's cleanest beach:

Why we swim:

Proceedings of the International Conference on Cyborgs in Ethics, Law, and Art

December 14-15th, 2021

(link)

Link to conference proceedings PDF, 108 pages, approx. 10 megabytes (10444390 bytes exactly) ...

Excerpt: Intro + Can Humans Being Machines Make Machines Be Human?

Excerpt without intro pages

Proceedings of the 24th annual Water-Human-Computer Interface DECONference

March 30th, 2022

Link to WaterHCI-2022 (de)conference proceedings PDF...

WaterHCI website: www.waterhci.com

See also last year's WaterHCI (de)conference proceedings.

Related courses at University of Toronto:

ECE1724: Superhumachines: Making cyborg technologies for super-human-machine intelligence.

ECE516: Intelligent Image Processing (link)

Research opportunities in cyborg technologies:

MannLab is always looking for students who have innate hands-on inventorship skills, especially those who have been making things since childhood.

Beginners or novice makers: we offer the meta-mentorship program.

MannLab student mentorship examples:

• Maya Burhanpurkar, Age 15, mentored at Mann's lab, won the Canada-Wide 2014 Science Fair, with scientific experiment based on Mann's concept of absement (link). Recipient of the international Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medal. She is now at Harvard University, studying Engineering Physics and Computer Science.
• Mann's MaSc students James Fung (now with Google) and Chris Aimone, together with Mann, and others, co-founded InteraXon and raised $28,800,000. InteraXon's Muse product, now sold in Best Buy stores all across North America and on Amazon.com, is known as "The King of Wearables" (BetaKit), the #1 in wearables (PC Retail) and "the holy grail for mindfulness", ("Muse 2 review: The world's best meditation tech just got even better").
  
  Caption: Muse2 Launch day at InteraXon, 2018 October 30th.
  See also Time-frequency analysis of visual evoked potentials using chirplet transform, Cui, Wong, and Mann, Electronics Letters 41(4), p217-218.
• While he was Mann's PhD student and TA, Ryan Janzen founded a transportation company (Transpod), raised $65,000,000 ($20,000,000 investment + 32,000,000 Euro grant), and also won the "Innovation of the Year Award".
• While he was Mann's PhD student and TA, Raymond Lo (now at Harvard) founded Metavision, raised $75,000,000, and created the world's first extramissive spatial imaging augmented reality glass, based on the metavision/metaveillance and wearable computing technology that Mann invented during childhood [IEEE Computer 30(2), p25-32, February 1997; USPTO 61/748,468, 61/916,773, and 20140184496] using video feedback to sense sensors and visualize their capacity to see.
  
  Caption: Raymond Lo and Steve Mann with Metavision eyeglasses.
  
  Caption: Metavision for visualizing vision sensors, and seeing their capacity to see.

  
  Caption: One of Steve Mann's childhood inventions, Metavision (the vision of vision, sensing sensors, and sensing their capacity to sense) with the Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine (SWIM). In this early photograph, Mann has captured a camera's capacity to "see", i.e. a visualization of vision. More generally his ability to sense sensors and sensing their capacity to sense allowed him to create many other inventions in the area of vision, sensing, and sensors.

  
  Metaveillance for sensing sensors, and sensing their capacity to sense. In this photograph we we see the sensory interference pattern between two Shure SM58 microphones.

WearTech^TM

ECE516 course: Register now!

You might also like to register in my other course, Inventrepreneurship (Invention + Entrepreneurship), APS1041.

Mentorship opportunities for talented individuals:

VRTO2016, Virtual and Augmented Reality 2016 Keynote


Here is a link to the Conference Proceedings. (Also, here is a link to the Intro text.)

CVPR 2016 Workshop on "Moving Cameras Meet Video Surveillance: from Body Cameras to Drones"; see also workshop website.

Imprint invisible sound and radio waves onto your retina: Augmented reality with perfect alignment
(Instructables.com)

"Phenomenal Augmented Reality" is a featured Instructables article now. They sent me a message: "Being featured means we think you are awesome."

ECE516 (ECE516H1S): Wearable Computing, IoT (Internet of Things), and AR (Augmediated Reality) Glass

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The Birth of Wearable Computing: 42 years of Augmented Reality. (Left-to-right): Steve Mann, age 12, Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine (

ECE516 is based on mathematical frameworks that use Integral Kinematics and Integral Kinesiology and the time-integral of distance: Absement (Absition)

PHENOMENAugmented Reality, IEEE Consumer Electronics, Volume4, Number 4, October 2015:

A.I. is a half-truth without H.I.!

Wednesday, December 2, 2015
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Location: Room WI1017, Wilson Hall, New College
40 Willcocks St, Toronto, ON M5S

Join Marvin Minsky, Neil Harbisson, Nahum Gershon, myself, and many others at IEEE GEM2015, October 14-16, and hold in your hand 41 years of Augmented Reality history: we'll be doing AR portraits like this you can take with you to share with your friends:

IEEE GEM2015

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Capturing the Future

Wearable Cameras, Lifelogging, Sousveillance, Bionic Eye Implants, Drones, 360-degree cameras & 3D scanning

Wednesday, September 9, 2015
6:30 PM to 10:00 PM
MaRS Discovery District
101 College St, , Toronto, ON (map)

Call for Papers: Veillance and Transparency (Local cache here, eyetap cache here, and PDF)

Egography: Wearable Augmented Ego-vision for Everyday Experience

Wearable Computing with 3D Augmediated Reality, Digital Eye Glass, Egography (Egocentric/First-Person Photographic/Videographic Gesture Sensing), and Veillance
Download the PDF, 4-page paper by Steve Mann, Steve Feiner, Stefano Baldassi, Soren Harner, Jayes Hansen, and Ryan Janzen

Wearables + IoT = Veillance = SMARTWORLDs = Workshop at Stanford 2015 Jan 16: http://wearcam.org/tei2015/

Spaceglasses are the ultimate meta-sensor == a sensor that can sense sensing itself. More generally, Meta can function as the device of devices, by being your plenary form of interaction with the "SMARTWORLD"... more detailed description.....

(Visualizing Vision, Seeing Sight, and Sensing Sensing with the Meta Spaceglass)

"Clearly the best business school on the planet! "Where Brilliant Minds Meet The Pavement" http://www.creativedestructionlab.com #UofT"

FITC WEARABLES

FULL-DAY EVENT ON WEARABLES

Talk slides, etc.

History and Future of AR Vision: The 35 year convergence of wearable cameras, wearable computers, and wearable displays into the "Digital Eye Glass"

Meta Digital Eye Glass which has some features of Generation-5 DEG: http://www.meta-view.com

IEEE ISTAS 2013 = International Symposium on Technology and Society:

Sousveillance, corbettreport

The IEEE Spectrum article on Wearable Computing.

Using Sousveillance to Defend the Commons, by David Bollier, Wed, 06/25/2008 - 23:00

Wearable Computing and Interaction Design (EyeTap Digital Eye Glass, etc.)

• Quantigraphic camera promises HDR eyesight from Father of AR
• Project Glass and the epic history of wearable computers.
• The Guardian: "The first surprising thing about Google Glasses is that anybody thinks this is a new idea (just have a look at this history of mobile augmented reality). Steve Mann, a Canadian known as the father of wearable computing, has been developing systems since the 1980s..."
• Article on Wearable Computing in Interaction Design
• EyeTap.org/publications
• Wearable Computing (underwater wearable computer with Brain Computer Interface shown in picture); quote: "Steve Mann, the great Canadian at the origin of what we can now call wearable computing."
• Commentary on wearable computing article
• Wearable computing, past and future
• Related work by Frank NIELSEN, INF555 | Fondements de la 3D (Fundamentals of 3D)

"Through the Glass": IEEE Technology and Society, Vol 32, No. 3

Equiveillance versus McVeillance

• McVeillance: How McDonaldized surveillance creates a monopoly on sight that chills AR and smartphone development
• How McDonaldized surveillance creates a monopoly on sight that chills AR and smartphone development
• Augmediated Reality and McVeillance
• Jessie Hirsh

The Waterlution Toronto Hub

Upcoming Competition "Artful Waters: Igniting Creativity for Change", April 30 Deadline

Are you a composer in Canada or Abroad?

• Do you have a passion for protecting our most precious resource?
• Care to give voice to water issues?
• Here's your chance!
  

Deadline for submissions is April 30, 2012.(link)

'Sousveillance', In Los Angeles Since The LA Riots

OCAD sur/sousveillance sur/sousvey

Passenger acquitted, refused to show ID and videotaped the incident at an airport security checkpoint.

Art Prof Lets World Peer Through His Surgically Embedded 3rd Eye.

Here Comes the Wetware.

To see presentation on sousveillance at DIY Citizenship conference, scroll ahead to
27:00 (and watch to about 50:00) and then scroll ahead to 1:36 (and watch to about 2:05) at this link.

Tell the Government to Say Cheese

Singularity Summit:

• Humanistic Intelligence Augmentation and Mediation
• Water Flute Gives a Glimpse of Future Interfaces, Priya Ganapati, 02010aug16
• Favorite at Singularity Summit is Steve Mann on virtual reality & cyborg living. He comes with a Canadian sense of humor - #SS2010 10:20 AM Aug 15th via HootSuite MagicSauceMedia
• The Ladder Theory of Surveillance and sousveillance
• Steven Mann on H2Organ at Singularity Summit 2010

Here's some interesting talks on sousveillance:

• Conférence Sciences en Tête - Jean-Gabriel Ganascia "Surveillance et sousveillance à l'âge de l'information" jeudi 16 septembre
• Technology and the Rise of Police Sous-veillance

Pay to Sit, also on vimeo.

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/05/25/experimental-sound-music/>7 Curious Experimental Music Projects

CBC GO! Owen Pallett and Musical Instrument Madness

Hydraulophone, balnaphone, etc., featured on Soundbuilders; also here's a piece not used in the Program.

Aquatune hydraulophone

ORGANic Evolution

See The Toronto Star, Thursday, March 11, 2010,
http://www.thestar.com/videozone/778012--ambling-on-the-andantephone

H2Orchestra performing for National Capital Commission, Ottawa from Steve Mann on Vimeo.

H2Orchestra Performing for National Capital Commission in Ottawa - More amazing video clips are a click away

Vote for the use of hydraulophones to provide clean drinking water Chris Willmer's proposal to use hydraulophones for water filtration...

hydraulophone in trendhunter

Hydraulophone listed as one of the top 10 musical instruments....

IAAPA FUNworld: SOPHISTICATED FUN.

...Interactive Musical Attractions.

Hydraulophone & Glass Armonica

Aquatune Hydraulophone manufactured by WhiteWater West (licensee hydraulophone invention)

Vote for hydraulophone which was nominated for Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, PEOPLE'S DESIGN AWARD

Musical Water Instruments H2Orchestra playing at LiveH2O

Invited hydraulophone lecture at Queen's University:

bemes; The Terasem Movement 4th Colloquium on the Law of Futuristic Persons; blog

Obama for Sousveillance

Community Sousveillance and "sousveillance officers".

Sousveillance means we watch the watchers.

Peter Gabriel sousveillance

scan again FRANKFURT VON UNTEN DIE STADT AUS SOUSVEILLANCE PERSPEKTIVE

clancco...;
Robert Thill's article on Prior Art exhibit at Gallery TPW, etc.

...
FL_UI_D Lab.

Freely    |  Limitless  |        |             |  Device(s)
Fluidly   |  Liquid     |  User  |  Interface  |  Design(s)
Flexible  |  Lifelong   |  ----  |  ---------  |  Definition(s)
Fun       |  Lossless   |        |             |  Description(s)

lifeboat foundation

CNIB hydraulophone

888torontomeetup, as seen on glogger.

889: Second day of the 888TorontoMeetup, as seen on glogger.

S. Mann, R. Janzen, C. Aimone, and others will be performing on hydraulophone at Harbourfront in June:

We're (LUMINAT'EAU CARNIVAL H₂O, June 14th and 15th) listed as number 1 on the Scotiabank Caribana Festival 2008 summer program schedule.

globeandmail.

hydraulophone article

H₂Orchestra played again at Brampton Independent Arts Festival (BIAF) Friday, 2008 February 15th

picture by Marc De Mouy

Waterflute (hydraulophone) played by H₂Orchestra members R. Janzen and S. Mann

View Steve Mann's profile

Hydraulophones featured in WaterShapes, Volume 10, No 2, 2008 February

New Year's Tears... Like glass armonica

H₂Orchestra will be playing in Toronto, at the Music Gallery, on Earth Day, Tuesday 2008 April 22. See http://wearcam.org/earthday/...

Knox College Christmas Sing

Here are some pictures from ICMC 2007:

Solid	Liquid	Gas	Plasma	Informatics
Cymbal	H'phone	Organflute	Plasmaphone	Synthesizer
("Earth")	("Water")	("Air")	("Fire")	("Idea")

These five states-of-matter correspond to the five Classical Greek Elements:
Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Idea ("Quintessence" meaning "fifth" element which we realized using Thought Technology EEG instruments). Immersed Music concerts explored the immersion of these five elements in both water and air:

Solid, Liquid, Gas	Plasma	Informatics
Guitar, H'phone, Flute;	Plasmaphone;	Synth/EEG
("Earth", "Water", "Air");	("Fire");	("Idea");

Other upcoming concerts featuring hydraulist Ryan Janzen:

car-free street festival, Baldwin Street between Beverly and McCaul Streets.

The theme for this final event of the summer in Baldwin Village is `Tomorrow'. "What do you see for Baldwin Village in the future? Given the huge arts community we hope to come up with a fun, futuristic vision for the street. Visionaries welcome!"

Absement is the time-integral of displacement

Consider a 5-hour train ride that takes you 500 miles directly away from your home, in a straight line, to another destination where you stay for 5 hours and then return. Suppose you want to stay wirelessly glogged into your home computer at a "roaming" communications cost of $1/mile/hour. For simplicity, assume a linear long-distance rate, i.e. $1/hour when you're 1 mile away, $2/hour when you're 2 miles away, $3.14/hour when you're 3.14 miles away, etc.. The total cost of your online communications is $5000, since the absement (time-integral of displacement) is 5000 mile hours (1250 mile hours on the way to your destination, plus 500 miles * 5 hours stay = 2500 mile hours, plus 1250 mile hours of absement during the return trip).

The middle plot shows Displacement. The first 5 hours are spent in the train going at velocity 100mph (miles per hour) away from home. The area under this triangular part is 1/2 five times 500 mile hours, which is 1/2 times 2500 mile hours, i.e. 1250 mile hours. The next 5 hours are spent at your destination, 500miles from your home, where you pay $500/hour for 5 hours, for a cost of $2500. Staying online during your return trip costs you another $1250.

Your total cumulative running cost is the area under the middle plot up to a particular point in time. This integral is called absement and is shown on the top plot.

Each of the three plots is the time-derivative of the plot above it:

• Displacement is the time-derivative of Absement
• Velocity is the time-derivative of Displacement.

Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day, Thursday April 26, 2007.

Tours

News

Hydraulophone in Experimental Musical Instruments publication

See and hear a musical composition for hydraulophone and orchestra:

Nessie also played at BRAMPTON INDIE ARTS FESTIVAL and the Mayor of Brampton also played on Nessie.

GRAPHICS WORKSHOP

Think or Thwim (main page)

Ontario Science Centre Hydraulophone:

Sustainable Businesses: Hydraulophone

South instrument

Here's a pipe organ that Chris Aimone and I (Steve Mann) made together, along with other members from my research team:
FUNtain pipe organ with water-jets as keys, Wednesday 2006 September 20th:

Download in avi

Picture slide show

Ryan playing Pachelbel's canon on the South division of the fountain

ece.

Download a higher resolution version of that movie in mpeg 4

OpenVIDIA

Sousveillance

Metal and Flesh, Volume 6, Number 1, submitted 2002 May 1st

Sousveillance:
newschool

lifelogging.

Operation Python...

RFID sousveillance

...use of mobiles in Sierra Leone and Ghana for checking malpractices and intimidation during elections.

Combining mobile phone cameras with Web sites has proved effective in combating electoral misdeeds in a number of countries.

A time may not be far-off when mobiles will turn out to be powerfulinstruments of `sousveillance', or the reverse of surveillance, enabling `bottom-up monitoring of the state by citizens', for good governance and prompt service delivery.

Bravo, mobile!

Sousveillance is del.icio.us

sousveillance video on 'gloger

CyborGLOG:

Existential Technology which asks the question "Can humans being clerks make clerks be human?", is the philisophical grounding and theoretical basis for the above examples of sousveillance and cyborglogging.

Equiveillance seeks to further the study of the equilibrium between surveillance and sousveillance (inverse surveillance). Introduced and debated during last year's opening keynote address at the Association of Computing Machinery's COMPUTERS, FREEDOM & PRIVACY conference, equiveillance explores the means by which we might mitigate power imbalances arising from systematic and unbalanced surveillance. Baa baa May2005

Equiveillance Week kicks off with an ID Trail Mix on Equiveillance by Ian Kerr and Steve Mann, posted on January 3rd (See the Kerr and Mann 2006 paper, or download an ASCII text version, or Linux OpenOffice ".doc" version), followed by a week of active discussion on blog*on*nymity by various guest bloggers, professors and students. Invited bloggers include Valerie Steeves and David Matheson, as well as Gary Marx, Professor Emeritus, M.I.T., and Daniel Solove, Associate Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Article with comments.

FUNtain

The poseidophone (water-pipe-organ-flute)

Installation at Pine Hill Estates: Plays music by blocking water jets.
combines the features of a pipe-organ with those of a flute, and it runs on water instead of air

Editors: Stefanos Pantagis M.D., Jason Nolan Ph.D.

ACM CFP keynote and maybecameras were mentioned on Kim Cameron's weblog:

The conference organizers actually turned every conference bag into a maybecamera replete with its individual dome! It was really bizarre and effective, especially given the conference title of "Panopticon"... And guess what? It's the first time I have come home from a conference with something both my (university age) children wanted! -- Kim Cameron

petitions as a form of sousveillance

"urbeach" (urban beach)
Ceci ce n'est pas une plage.

First place winner of the Coram International Sustainability Design Competition

Sousveillance panel at Computers Freedom and Privacy (CFP)

The Sousveillance Sheppard (call for citizens to photograph any suspicious lorries, trailers and number plates)

making the streets safe with web-based sousveillance cameras

voter sousveillance

Some recent and upcoming events that the ePi Lab (EyeTap Personal Imaging Lab) is involved with:

• 2004 Apr. 12th: International Workshop on Inverse Surveillance; (see below)
• Article on IWIS 2004 in TheFeature
• 2004 May. 13-16th: digifest (digital design culture conference);
• Article on the opening keynote address of digifest ("CYBORG SENSATIONS");
• 2004 Aug. 6 to 8th: TRANSVISION 2004 (I've been asked to "launch the conference by delivering the keynote address on the evening of Friday Aug. 6.").
• Followup on TV04 (TransVision 2004) Opening Keynote, entitled "Glogging: Sousveillance, Cyborglogs, and the Right to Self-modification:
  • From Doors of Perception: www.doorsofperception.com .
  • hyper-textual ontology.
  • "I cannot even begin to imagine the technical complexity and intricacies involved in pulling that presentation off. ... I can't imagine myself ever trying to pull something like that off" -- Anders Sandberg.
• SIGGRAPH cyberfashion;
• Sousveillance Issue of The Gathering of the Tribes... CFP
• Stefanos Pantagis has a really cool website up now, covering the New York sousveillance scene...
• Reference to Stefanos Pantigs website
• 2004 Oct. 15th: Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences.
• Proceedings of ACM CARPE
• Special issue in Tribes, on the topic of sousveillance

Sousveillance (domewear) on Bruce Sterling's 'Blog

p2p sousveillance

Inverse surveillance

• Reckless Eyes project (an interesting interpretation in terms of Merleau-Ponty, etc); here's a short quote:

  From 1994-1996, Steve Mann, the grandfather of wearable computers, wore a wireless camera and receiver for almost every waking minute of his life... Both the camera and display were connected to the Internet so visitors to Steve's www site could see what he was gazing upon, and if a visitor sent him an email, it would pop up in the display before his eyes. ... Steve's experience of a shared technical gaze explored the concept of sharing a live gaze with others - with allowing others to view your world through your eyes. ... highly influenced by Maurice Merleau-Ponty's writings in which he frequently refers to the seeing and the seen. Merleau-Ponty fights the Cartesian model of vision where individuals see the world from an external vantage point, or "God's eye" view and stresses that we as human beings are not dis-embodied eyes looking down upon the world. ... If we are embodied in a shared world, we can be also be seen by those we see. Merleau-Ponty identifies the fundamental "reversibility" in vision: the observer is both subject and object, the seeing and the seen. ... Steve, attempts to give others a god's eye view of the world. ... In his writings on the Panopticon, Jeremy Bentham attempts to break this reversible vision through architectural strategies. He describes the first methods of mediated sight where the body of an observer is obscured behind a technology through which he can look out. However, when the observed look back, they see only the mediating technology, not the observer. Bentham tries to break the bi-directional gaze.

Urban Turbine (rooftop windmill 3 phase generator)

3phase Power to the People!

The paperback edition of CYBORG is now available as online order from Barnes and noble. A special edition version of the original hardcover version is available from Tekgear

Also note that barnesandnoble.com is the same company as bn.com but you need to use the barnesandnoble.com domain to get a search, e.g. by ISBN, such as for example: "http://search.barnesandnoble.com/textbooks/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?isbn=0385658265".

See also the amazon.ca book reviews.

book and workshop mentioned in igargoyle

Upcoming sponsorship opportunities: the upcoming Digifest Event, including "A Celebration of the Art, Science & Inventions of Steve Mann", digifest 2004, ON THE MOVE, MAY13-16, TORONTO:
(PDF)

Visual Field Mediation

Sousveillance: Opening Keynote Address for Academia Week at McGill University

Visual art: the original reason for the invention of the wearable computer:
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The wearable computer, in the form we know and use it today, was invented in Canada in the 1970s for computer-mediated reality, as a visual art form, for production of pictures like this picture from the mid 1980s.
See a larger version of above picture
See Other examples of Lightvector paintings like the one shown above.

anonequity

I've been having a lot of trouble finding a reliable 4way Decora switch (Leviton's seem flaky, and unreliable). Let me know if you know of any reliable Decora 4way switch, or a reliable X10 dimmer for that matter.

Issues in Wearable Computing, by Len Bass, Steve Mann, Dan Siewiorek and Chris Thompson

Witnessentialism: Witnessential Networks

Comparametric Equations WWW site Recent paper on Comparametric Equations

glinaccess: making GNU Linux accessible to the visually impaired (persons with low vision)

Two new books on wearable computing:

Click here to locate the first book at BARNES&NOBLE
This book teaches the fundamentals of wearable computing and mediated reality, the EyeTap principle, the mathematical theory, as well as the practical details of how to design and build these systems.

Click here to locate the second book at chapters.com
This book presents, to the layperson, wearable, mobile, wireless computing and communication, and personal experiences of inventing, designing, building, and wearing computers for the past 20 years, as well as how these inventions affect society as a whole.

The book is usally found in the cultural studies section of the bookstore:

Here it was found on the third floor of Chapters bookstore, on Bloor Street, in Toronto. (Fullsize pictures taken from within Chapters bookstore can be found here.)

From postcyborgism to deconism.

Recent event: DECONference, 2002 August 29th

Witnessential Networks

Comparametric Equations

Existential Technology, Leonardo 36(1), 2003 Intelligent fixtures and systems, Leonardo, 36(3), 2003

It is also designed for easy access to the visually challenged, and to be easy to read on a wearable computer or EyeTap device, so if you find large font sizes offensive, then tough.

This site contains no frames, animations, or other viruses, and you will not require any proprietary plug-ins or proprietary or specific browser versions to access the material presented here. You can set your browser width to whatever you like, because I have made no assumptions whatsoever about what screen size you must purchase in order to view this site. This site will view quite nicely, for example, on a standard size 640x480 VGA display or a high brightness NTSC TV picture tube suitable for use by the visually impaired.

If you want a more organized and more desktop computer friendly site, see http://eyetap.org and http://about.eyetap.org

Subjectright (S) as an alternative to Copyright (C)

First published article containing material released under Subjectright (S) as an alternative to Copyright (C)

Seeing Eye People: Research project on using Live Video for remote guidance of the visually impaired

EyeTap drive-where-you-look wheelchair, similar to the EyeTap radiocar...

Diminished Reality

FILM TITLE: Cyberman
Year: 2001
Time: 87 minutes
Film Types: Colour/35mm

``It's a visually intricate look into the head of the world's first cyborg: inventor, performance artist, privacy advocate... a "Roger and Me" for the William Gibson generation.''

Cyberman movie reviews.

Thesis projects for 4th year Engineering Science students (Many of the must successful students, such as James Fung, working in this area of research, come from Engineering Science.)

Personal Cybernetics, ECE1766, currently being offered this term, (started January).

Sousveillance, not just surveillance, in response to terrorism

Joici Ito, Japan's leading philosopher on technology, has contextualized many related issues, such as freedom, democracy, privacy, sur/sousveillance, etc., in his recent article, Emergent Democracy.

(Some of the University of Toronto ECE1766 Photoborgs getting ready to head out on a shooting assignment.)
ECE1766 (Personal Imaging) new course offering at U. Toronto

(click for fullsize versions of this set of pictures)
ENGwear (Electronic News Gathering wear) student project: design and implementation of wearable wireless electronic newsgathering eyewear.

IEEE Computer, Vol 30, No. 2, February 1997, Lead article

Wearable Intelligent Signal Processing: Lead article from Proceedings of the IEEE, Nov. 1998, Vol. 86, No. 11, cover+p2123-2151

Visual Vicarious Soliloquy of the Keynote Address at DEFCON7 (my travel schedule is very hectic, but I still enjoy giving the occasional Keynote Address at major conferences or symposia, often as Visual Vicarious Soliloquys; contact admin@eyetap.org with audience size, profile, etc..).

Privacy and Wearable Computers; McLuhan Culture and Technology Keynote Address, 1998 October 23

WearComp.org, WearCam.org, UTWCHI, and Steve Mann's Personal Web Page/research

Mathematical theory of WearComp and Mediated Reality: Comparametric Equations

research interests

• Research interests and papers
  (Prof. Mann's research covering a variety of topics)
• The Wyckoff principle, and links to Prof. Mann's other imaging, image science, image processing, etc., related inventions
  
  (Linked from the Wyckoff Principle WWW page above)
• Interrogative art, cultural criticism, etc..
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  (papers pertaining to the WearComp/WearTech/WearCam/WearComp inventions in the context of re-situating the common everyday computational facilities in a disturbing and disorienting fashion to challenge society's preconceived notions of these.)
• Wearable Wireless Webcam and the personal visual assistant.
  • See what I'm seeing right now (or what I've last transmitted).
  • See a gallery of what I've seen recently (takes a little while to load).
  • Load a larger gallery if you have a fast net connection or a lot of patience (takes quite a while to load all images).
  • Remotely control my BoDY
  • See a picture of the apparatus (me wearing it), and an earlier version (~=1990) as hand-drawn by Adam Oranchak.
  • Research papers:
    • WearComp: A first step toward "Personal Imaging"
    • Wearable, Tetherless, Computer-Mediated Reality (with possible future applications to the disabled)
    • `Smart Clothing'
    • Smart clothing: Turning the tables (how wearable technologies can protect our privacy and freedom as the world around us becomes "smarter" and more intrusive)
• ShootingBack: A documentary video about making a video about video surveillance, shot with my right eye.
• Algebraic projective geometry; "Periodicity in Perspective"
• Beyond digital photography: The new imaging renaissance
• Mathematical framework for personal imaging
• Wearable electronic flash with some "kick":
  • See some of my work, as well as works by other artists, at the Edgerton Center online gallery.
  • This is how I hold and aim the world's most powerful electronic flash (40kJ), which I configured as a body-worn tetherless apparatus. (I use it for architectural "lightpainting".)
  • Take a closeup look at the most powerful lamp in the world (energy per flash up to 40kJ). If you have a fast net connection, you can load a larger picture of the lamp just before ignition, and during ignition.
• `Smart clothes' and Wearable computing
• Light as well as a humorous look at darkness, the absence of light.
• Privacy issues pertaining to light and virtual light (e.g. video, etc.)
• Netcam previous experiences
• Amateur radio My callsign is N1NLF. A fellow amateur radio operator, N4RVE, is also interested in ham radio on the move.

I am a faculty member at University of Toronto; you may want to visit my official faculty WWW page at http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~mann

Events or places of interest in cyberspace:

• FPGAs are the future of rapid WearComp and other video signal processing prototyping. Soon there will hopefully be video inputs on the high speed graphics processing engine called the "transmogrifier" which would make it into a processor suitable for use in a reality mediator. The main paper on the transmogrifier is mirrored on this site as well.
• PRESENCE, published by MIT Press
• Kodak's WWW site
• Cool site of the day
• Interesting devices connected to the net
• Track your FedEx paper submissions. A Beginner's Guide to HTML
• PERL (Practical Extraction and Report Language), a simple script language
• a program to arm human rights groups with video cameras, fax machines and computers
• Baby Emily's home page
• Mili Avital
• Sean D. Tucker flying his airplane through a ribbon 25 feet above the ground
• Vacation snapshots
• I also have an appreciation for the arts, e.g. the use of computers in the production of fine art.
  
  (Ilija Vranesic)

Contact info: Prof. Steve Mann, University of Toronto, Department of Electrical Engineering, 10 King's College Road, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3G4 mann@eecg.toronto.edu.

Blue ribbon designates Free speech (ribbon used instead of setting background color to black because this would be a Notscape specific feature).

glynx (graphical lynx) based on konqueror

The DEC Alpha has held the record as the world's fastest microprocessor since 1992. This makes it a good computer upon which to run GNUX (GNU+Linux) for a WearComp base station or Interenet gateway.

WearTech/WearComp/WearCam on CNN (1996)

Russell McOrmond once said: "Any 'hardware assist' for communications, whether it be eye-glasses, VCR's, or personal computers, must be under the control of the citizen and not a third party."

Don't let Software Barons force-feed you anything that isn't COSHER!

Always ask for ADVANCE payment if you're giving an expense-paid invited lecture, otherwise you're extending what amounts to a high-risk interest free loan. ESR got this one right!

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