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jens wunderling

for both of the surveillance-aware wearables, a feedback channel would make an extra statement. there are various ways to do this.

CCTV:

• the shirt blinds the cameras and so camouflages its wearer.

using either reflective color covered with ir passing color, or LEDs, the shirt could flash up brightly, on the one hand to blur the shapes, on the other hand to draw some extra attention of the security guards watching the screens.

• messages visible only for ir cameras.

using paint which is only visible in infrared light, messages can be seen only by the security guards.

for example urls:

everystepyoutake.com // a documentary about cctv in london
urbaneye.net // the website of a report about social effects of cctv networks

RFID:

while being scanned, not only the read-out-attempt-count is incremented, but also information sent back. here are some scenarios:

the collector: the piece of clothing is a scanner itself, while moving around, it collects every rfid tag it finds and when scanned itself, releases them all. this way, in the near future when theres an rfid scanner on every corner, it makes its contribution to blur the collected statistics.

the faker: a random rfid id is generated on every readout attempt.

the accountant: the number of readout attempts is sent back.

for the surveillance wearable, it would be nice to use classical clothes of disguise to enhance the meaning, to show that the wearer is not going to let someone spy on him:

for the environmental-threat-aware clothing, a more practical style of clothing would be interesting:

but this one would make a point, and the CCTV fashion more comprehensible.

according to jussi’s feedback, i was thinking over the RFID shirts… here are two ideas on how to make them less biased.
at first: simple fashion. only for those who know about rfid technology. the motive lightens up on readout attempts.

second, the count of readout attempts is displayed together with a short explanation.

for the cctv detecting wearable, i’d like to work with the well-known (in germany since the hard-fi album release) CCTV sign:

which by the way looks somehow cool as a pattern:

one possible way of employing this would be to use IR-Active paint, like in these IR indicators that are charged in neon light which then emit orange light when hit by IR:

a fashionable design printed on a t-shirt would light up bright upon entering an area lit up by IR light for security cameras:

using the same combination of a sensor and electroluminiscent material as proposed for the RFID shirt, a self-illuminating CCTV logo can be shown: