The Transparency Times: an Installation Promoting Transparency in Urban Sensing

Smart city initiatives are underway worldwide, from Denver to Singapore to London to Oakland. Sensors, cameras, and microphones in the cityscape bring the promise of increased efficiency and improved security. These benefits also come with potential harms including privacy and security vulnerabilities, as well as the potential to exacerbate socioeconomic disparity. Communities should proactively engage in discussions around the development of smart cities to reap benefits from these technologies while minimizing harms. We created an interactive installation to use as a participatory design probe to help inform the public about the potential concerns of smart cities. Providing a tactile and transparent way to engage with public use sensors resulted in users having deeper, more emotional and more thoughtful responses to potential privacy harms.

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Sasha Volkov

Andrea Gagliano

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 1-5

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[1 ] UC Berkeley

San Francisco, CA

[2 ] UC Berkeley

Seattle, WA

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.219

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 32

Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

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[1] ACLU, n.d. What’s wrong with Public Video Surveillance? http://www.aclu.org/other/whats-wrong-public-video-surveillance March 11 2018

[2] A. Greenfield 2017 Radical Technologies: the Design of Everyday Life UC Berkeley March 2017 Verso, Brooklyn, NYC, NY

[3] M. Foucault 2008 „Panopticism‟ from Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts2(1) Indiana University Press March 12 2018 from Project MUSE Database

[4] Whitney Museum of Art, M. Mitchell Privacy: On the State of Surveillance http://whitney.org/WhitneyStories/Cryptoparty April 28 2017

[5] Drange M. Forbes 2016 We’re Spending Millions On This High-Tech System Designed To Reduce Gun Violence Is It Making A Difference? http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/11/17/shotspotter-struggles-to-prove-impact-as-silicon-valley-answer-to-gun-violence/#1783b98131cb May 4 2017

[6] B. GhenaW. BeyerA. HillakerJ. PevarnekJ. A. Halderman 2014 Green Lights Forever: Analyzing the Security of Traffic Infrastructure. WOOT, 14, 7 7

[7] H. KimE. KangE. A. LeeD. Broman 2017 April A toolkit for construction of authorization service infrastructure for the internet of things. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation 147 158 ACM

[8] H. KimE. KangE. A. LeeD. Broman 2017 April A toolkit for construction of authorization service infrastructure for the internet of things. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation 147 158 ACM

[9] Pew Research Center 2015 Americans’ Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/05/20/americans-attitudes-about-privacy-security-and-surveillance/ March 20 2017

[10] Digital TrendsC. Olewitz 2016 MIT’s new sensor-loaded duct tape makes DIY electronics a snap http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/sensortape-sensor-packed-roll-of-electrical-circuitry May 5 2017

[11] Illuminate.org 2017 Lightrail Project http://illuminate.org/projects/lightrail/ May 4 2017

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