FEATUREThe ambient mirror: creating a digital self-image through pervasive technologies
FEATUREThe ambient mirror: creating a digital self-image through pervasive technologies
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特色环境镜：通过普及技术创建数字自我形象
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10.1145/1487632.1487643
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2009
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Dimitris Grammenos
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Dimitris Grammenos
积累每一条信息，无论多么琐碎或复杂，与一个人的整个生活有关，变得可行吗？那么，我们是否能够重新创造一个完整而准确的人物形象——不仅包括她的外表、行为、兴趣和习惯，还包括她的个性和思维方式？如果我们不是把这个模型提供给软件应用程序和服务，而是把它呈现给它的合法的人类主人呢？在这种情况下，我们可能会遇到的最大障碍是数据呈现，或者如何以结构化、有意义和可理解的方式呈现如此庞大、多样且可能混乱的数据。为了我们的假设，让我们假设我们最终设法创建了一个适当的呈现机器，我们将其命名为Ambient mirror——其内容准确、无争议且人类可读。然后，人们可能会问的第一件事是，“这个人能在这个数字镜像中认出真实的自己吗？”你看，人类往往不会对我们是谁、我们的想法或我们的行为保持“高分辨率”的记录。相反，我们根据一小部分（有时是虚构的）可用信息，画出自己的草图。我们的大脑不断过滤数以百万计的细节，只保留少数重要的事实或事件，经常创造理想化的、减轻的或加重的版本。此外，随着时间的推移，许多保留的数据被遗忘、损坏、回推或合并。如果我们设法对上述问题得到满意的答案，那么下一步将是确定这种工具的可能“应用”，并评估其潜在的有用性，以及它们对个人和整个社会的影响。
of accumulating each and every piece of information, no matter how trivial or elaborate, related to the whole life of a single human being becomes feasible? Would we then be able to re-create a complete and accurate representation of that person—not only her appearance, actions, interests, and habits but also her personality and way of thinking? And what if, instead of feeding this model into software applications and services, we presented it to its rightful human owner? In this case, the biggest obstacle that we would probably stumble upon would be that of data rendering, or how to present such massive and diverse, and potentially chaotic, data in a structured, meaningful, and comprehensible way. For the sake of our hypothesis, let’s suppose that we eventually manage to create an appropriate rendering machine, which we entitle the Ambient Mirror—the contents of which are accurate, noncontroversial, and human-readable.Then, the first thing that one would probably ask is,“Will the person in question be able to recognize their actual self in this digital reflection?” You see, humans tend not to keep a “high resolution” account of who we are, what we think, or what we do. Instead, we draw a rough sketch of ourselves based on a small, and sometimes fictitious, portion of the available information. Our brain constantly filters millions of details, retaining only a few important facts or events, often creating idealized, mitigated, or aggravated versions of them. Furthermore, over time, much of this retained data is forgotten, corrupted, pushed back, or merged. If we somehow manage to get a satisfying answer to the aforementioned question, then the next step would be to identify possible “applications” of such a tool and assess their potential usefulness, as well as their impact both to the individual and the to the society as a whole.