Alexander Hayes

Cyborg Cops, Googlers, and Connectivism [Leading Edge]

The paper mentions that Project Glass is a research and development program by Google to develop an augmented reality head-mounted display (HMD). The intended purpose of Project Glass products is the hands-free display of information available to most smartphone users, allowing for interaction with the Internet via natural language voice commands. Given that Project Glass connects wearers en-mass and ostensibly ensures that they can continue with physical activity hands-free, it creates arguably one of the largest known veillance vehicles into previously unmapped territories that humans already frequent. A hands-free, fashionable, and constantly connected technology positions the product well among the seemingly unending array of Googles seamless and integrated services.

The Sky Is the Limit [Interview]

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine Associate Editor Alexander Hayes interviewed Glass Explorer Cecilia Abadie on January 21, 2013. The complete Google Hangout interview is available for viewing on YouTube at http://goo.gl/YFFbxJ.

My Journey into Glass: Talking about Google Glass with stakeholders in the Glass Explorer Program.

I came into the consumer electronics industry as a wearable-technology reseller and educator with a background in e-learning and flexible delivery. My interests in location-enabled, wearable video technologies began in 2003, culminating over the ensuing years in national and international projects with industry, policing, national security, and social research, including the impact on the Australian vocational education and training sector [1]. The ten interview excerpts included in this article are representative of different vertical applications of Glass from a diverse array of stakeholders.

On the Road with Rick Sare? and Google Glass [Interview]

Rick Sare is an American long haul freight truck driver. When he is not at work, driving, he lives in Orlando, FL. He was interviewed by Alexander Hayes on March 26, 2014, via Google Hangouts. Hayes, the interviewer, is a Ph.D. scholar at the University of Wollongong, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences (EIS), School of Information Systems & Technology (SISAT), Wollongong, Australia. The complete interview is available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/35JMBwroiyM?list=PLfhVHi9gqg5TLDTvvpVbI89NI5EJirTw8. An excerpt of the interview follows.

Scenarios for peer-to-peer learning in construction with emerging forms of collaborative computing

Many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Europe are interested in finding new methods of training and workplace learning. Technology-enhanced practices of peer-to-peer learning may offer various new possibilities for SMEs. In this study we consider emerging technologies for informal learning in construction work. These technologies include wearable computing, invisible and ambient computing, augmented reality and novel interaction technologies. Three preliminary scenarios presented in this paper demonstrate how these technologies may be used. These scenarios have been developed, with a focus on the use of technology within a community supporting peer-to-peer learning, that may negate some of the social concerns of wearable and ubiquitous technologies. The inclusion of the construction workers in the design process, combined with smart design, is expected to find acceptable and fair solutions. It remains to be seen whether construction industry work communities will support this assertion.

Identity awareness and re-use of research data in veillance and social computing

Identity awareness of research data has been introduced as a requirement for open research, transparency and reusability of research data in the context of eScience. This requirement includes the capability of linking research data to researchers, research projects and publications, and identifying the license for the data. This connectivity between research data and other elements in research ecosystems is required in order to make the data available and reusable beyond the initial research. In this paper, we examine these capabilities in the domains of veillance and social computing. The dataset cases presented in this paper articulate the challenges that researchers face as they seek to expose data created as a result of research activities.