Syllabus & Overview

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First Class – Bonsen’s Intro & Overview & DeVaul & Sung’s Demos (see photos below) – 14 February 2003

Second Class – Eagle’s Reality Mining & Participant Experiment Proposals – 21 February 2003

Third Class – Pentland’s Digital Anthropology vision, Chowdhury’s SociometerShortcuts & Bove’s Object-Media – 28 February 2003

Fourth Class – Participant Project Proposals & Borovoy’s ThinkingTags / MemeTags / nTAGS – 7 March 2003

Fifth Class – Participant Project Updates & Sung’s Biometric Capture Item & Bender’s Electronic Publishing & Information:Organized efforts – 14 March 2003

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Sixth Class – van Maanen’s Analog Anthropology – 4 April 2003

Seventh Class – Cummings’ PDA as Research Tool & NetVis – 11 April 2003

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Student & Guest Participants

Instructor: sandy@media.mit.edu ~ TAs: jpbonsen@media.mit.edu, rich@media.mit.edu, nathan@media.mit.edu, msung@media.mit.edu

Class & Case Example Photos Below!

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MAS.966J / 15.970J Digital Anthropology : Technology Testbeds, Sociometrics, & Predictive Microcosms

Photos from Class Sessions

Students signing COUHES informed consent forms for the Reality Mining project & a stack of wearable Zauri PDAs with headsets

Jordan Gilliland of the Paperless Classroom project creating the digital signup sheet & digitally recording student introductions all around

Rich DeVaul demonstrating the MIThril wearable computer & component elements

Rich DeVaul comparing the benefits & limitations of our suite of wearables: the Sociometer ~ the Zauri ~ MIThril ~ various smartbadges

Mike Sung demonstrating a wearable biometric capture, telemetry, & visualization systems

Example wearable cameras, digital namebadges, voice recorders & the Zauri

Nathan Eagle wearing a JABRA Bluetooth wireless mic describes his Reality Mining project & participants updating their Zauri

Federica Busa expresses skepticism about Eagle’s Reality Mining initiative

Lionel Asseraf asks presentor Michael Osofsky for clarification on his group-creativity project proposal

Juan Carlo Barahona & Leo Villarreal describe their psychoanalysis & sociorobotics project proposals

Michael Schrage asks Tim Panagos about his transcription project proposal

Mike Bove describes several of his Object Media group projects

Tanzeem Choudhury describes her Shortcuts project using Sociometers & Andrea Lockerd asks for clarification

Rick Borovoy discussing his ThinkingTag & MemeTag projects & showing off his new nTAGs

Showing how two nTAGs send IR infrared signals to each other

Our Digital Anthropology class is controversial enough to provoke the slasher elements of society

Mike Sung discussing the evolution of wearables & highlights the bio & psychometric-capture instrumentation specifically

Mike Sung highlights the Hoarder Board and how it connects with Zauri

Lionel Asseraf proposes using Zauri to provide participant feedback in Sloan classrooms; Sandy Pentland illustrates how to capture such feedback

Walter Bender discusses his and Pascal Chesnais’s experience with Project Canard, an experiment in social constructionism

Participants hashing out project details

Photos from Technology Testbeds throughout MIT

Remote controlled classroom video camera & new architecture studio space

Aero/Astro groupspace & digital wall configuration

Ultra-reconfigurable space with everything on wheels, plugs everywher, wide open spaces, and all-rugged

Aero/Astro presentation room & student feedback system

Individual student answers clicked, aggregated, and visualized for fast faculty feedback

Mike Sung demonstrating his wearable biometrics rig

Nathan Eagle & Tanzeem Choudhury wear minimalist ear & neck sociometric devices; Chris Elledge demonstrates MITThril

Jacky Mallet’s EyeSociety autonomous robotic mobile cameras

Mark Williamson interacts with the iCom social communication portal in the Object-Based Media group

The Grassroots Invention Group prototypes