Sentient Rotterdam Workshop with Mark Shepard & The Mobile City Nov 6th

Computing has left the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets and public spaces of the city. Information processing is increasingly embedded in the material fabric of everyday urban space. We approach an age of urban information systems capable of sensing and responding to events and activities transpiring around them.

This is the ‘Sentient City‘. What does this emerging Sentient City mean for urban culture? Few people will quibble about ’smart’ traffic light control systems that more efficiently manage mobility. Some may be irritated when discount coupons for their favorite espresso drink are beamed to their mobile phone as they pass by Starbucks. Many are likely to protest when they are denied passage through a subway turnstile because the system ’senses’ that their purchasing habits, mobility patterns and current galvanic skin response (GSR) reading happens to match the profile of a terrorist.

where: Netherlands Architecture Institute Rotterdam
when: Friday November 6th 2009
12:00-17:00 Workshop introduction and sessions
17:00-19:00 Public presentation + opening exhibit Sentient City Survival Kit.
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Paolo Barattini

Dr. Paolo Barattini, MD PhD, after working as a Researcher in human Physiology and Circadian rhyhtms in Salt Lake City (Utah) and in Geneva CH) became (since 1993) a consultant in hardware and software biomedical devices. He founded a company (Ridgeback s.a.s.s) that has been working in many advanced products developments, between them the ESA projects MARES (the device currently is permanently housed on board the International Space Station), and HEWS, the EU FP7 project Theraedge, project LOCOBOT, project BURBA.
He has a kink for devising new services enabled by the creative use of technology, especially Information Technology, concocted with sound knowledge about Ergonomics of Human Machine and Human Robot interaction.

Ridgeback s.a.s

Ian Schulte

Ian Schulte is Director of Technology & Business Development at Latitude, where he guides the company's growth strategy, oversees the development of its leading-edge technology products, and cultivates industry, academic, and developer partnerships.

Responsible for developing Latitude's young technology practice, Ian is leading an exploration of "people-centric" possibilities for the Internet of Things, with an eye toward identifying opportunities for new connected products, services, and infrastructures that could transform the ways we live, work, and play.

Latitude

Dominique Guinard

Dominique is a researcher at the Institute for Pervasive Computing of ETH Zurich and a Research Associate for SAP Research Zurich. He is also a member of the Auto-ID labs. He was formerly a researcher at the Information Management group of ETH working on mobile interactions with the Internet of Things with Nokia Research and an intern at Sun Microsystems Switzerland, where he worked on scalable software architectures for RFID networks. In 2007 he co-founded the WebofThings.com initiative with the aim of reflecting on how to use the Web as a means of connecting and interacting with everyday objects.

Web of Things

Sentient Rotterdam Workshop with Mark Shepard & The Mobile City Nov 6th

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