http://www.metafilter.com/tags/realitymining Posts tagged with 'realitymining' at MetaFilter. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:19:44 -0800 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:19:44 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/76993/Reality%2DMining "Reality mining is just like data mining... except instead of being applied to text and web pages... we're trying to find patterns in real life." MIT students "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30privacy.html?_r=1&em=&pagewanted=all">swap their privacy for smartphones that generate digital trails.</a>" <a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~sandy/">Alex "Sandy" Pentland</a> tracks how humans interact by looking at the trails left by the devices they use. <a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~sandy/PentlandTR10.mov">This movie</a> (.mov file) shows a little of what he's up to. <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/20247/">Could the accelerometer in your iPhone detect a change in your gait, which can be an early indicator of Parkinson's? Maybe cell phone data could be used to track the spread of diseases like SARS.</a> <a href="http://ccs.mit.edu/malone/">Thomas Malone</a>, another researcher at MIT, thinks we might be overly-focused on privacy: “For most of human history, people have lived in small tribes where everything they did was known by everyone they knew,” Dr. Malone said. “In some sense we’re becoming a global village. Privacy may turn out to have become an anomaly.” tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.76993 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:19:44 -0800 mit privacy realitymining smartphone tractorfeed