Predictive Maintenance

Austin, Jim; Jackson, Thomas W.; Fletcher, Martyn; Jessop, Mark; Cowley, Peter; Lobner, P.R.

doi:10.1016/b978-155860933-4/50009-2

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“…Many devices today use data flows as a core part of their functioning -the Nest thermostat collecting data about it's users in order to predict their behaviour and turn the heating on at the right time. Devices that collect information on their own performance as a means of predicting failure or scheduling maintenance are much less problematic [39], for example, predictive maintenance is a vital part of servicing Rolls-Royce jet-engines, which capture vast amounts of telemetry data about their functioning [2]. In contrast devices that collect data in order to better understand their users are much more ethically ambiguous [50].…”

Section: Ethics Of Data-gathering For Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entangled Ethnography: Towards a collective future understanding

Murray-Rust

Gorkovenko

Burnett

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019

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In this work, we develop a vision for entangled ethnography, where constellations of people, artefacts, algorithms and data come together to collectively make sense of the relations between people and objects. This is grounded in New Materialism's picture of a world understood through entanglement, through resonant constellations, through a multiplicity of unique individual viewpoints and their relationships. These perspectives are especially relevant for design ethnography, in particular for research around smart connected products, which collect data about their environment, the networks they are a part of, and the ways they are used. However, we are concerned about the current trend of many connected systems towards surveillance capitalism, as data is colonised, machinations are hidden, and a narrow definition of value is extracted. There is a key tension that while design, particularly of networked objects, attempts to go beyond human centeredness, the infrastructures that support it are moving towards a less than human perspective in their race to accumulate and dispossess. Our work tries to imagine the situations where participants in networked systems are richly engaged, rather than exploited. We hope for a future where human agency is central to a respectful and acceptable collaborative development of understanding. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI).

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Section: Ethics Of Data-gathering For Designmentioning

confidence: 99%