With a $35,000 grant from the Knight Prototype Fund, [MITs Elizabeth Christoforetti] and her team are working on a project called Placelet, which will track how pedestrians move through a particular space. They’re developing a network of sensors that will track the scale and speed of pedestrians [and vehicles] over long periods of time. The sensors, [currently being tested in downtown Boston], will also track the 'sensory experience' by recording the noise level and air quality of that space. — CityLab
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The Church of Data and its Prie$t$
The stats tell us that Minions is clearly the best movie of the year.... Didn't see it in person tho!
I think the mean "sensory experience" quite literally
WH Whyte, showing the way.
^Classic, LOVE that film! This hands off approach though, somehow I can't help but think that as this type of technology will someday be used for nefarious purposes...
Data gathering is fine but what's with the dubious William Whyte and "human experience" rhetoric? Whyte spent 16 years studying and writing and filming. Not sure if study and observing behavior is quite he same as sensor tracking movement....and does slower movement equal better space?
Who owns this data anyway? Corporate MIT? NSA? Google? I doubt people will have access to it.
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