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In case you've missed it, these are Facebook's five guiding principles for the new #SurveillanceGlasses. How they're going to get people to comply is anyone's guess. 🤷
Also I can't believe nobody has used the hashtag #SurveillanceGlasses to describe this phenomenon before. You essentially can not have "smart", in the modern tech sense of the word, without surveillance. I believe awareness of this symbiosis must grow.
This piece of hardware set me on my path 40 years ago. RIP Clive Sinclair, inventor behind the ZX81, who passed away yesterday - at the age of 81.
bbc.com/news/science-e…
That screenshot of me is by @andyvitale, when I was interviewed by him and @lwelchman on @SurfacingPod earlier this year.
surfacingpodcast.com/per-axbom
"..concern for privacy has evolutionary roots in a need to maintain boundaries between self and others, for safety and security. "
"Stripped of the social cues that tend to ring our emotional alarm bells, the online environment elicits a muted response."
psyche.co/ideas/our-evol…
Last year was so distressing I do not even remember making this image. 😳. Found it in a search and can't remember in what context I made this. Scary... x.com/axbom/status/1…
Hey everyone interested in #DigitalEthics and how #Facebook manage unaccountability over and over again. Read Jason's thread and listen to the 20 minute WSJ podcast. x.com/jason_kint/sta…
Also: x.com/scottmonty/sta…
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@ohlserik Yes, Johan did a good sketch: x.com/j_schalin/stat…
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@aDreamersWaltz @deformador Similar here while I believe it's just as common to just stick to red for all marks.
Reminds me of those awesome pens with four retractable colors.
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@aDreamersWaltz @deformador Cool, thanks for sharing!
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@sojge @alundbergh Seeing them each on their own, for me they would both mean ”something selected”, but I’m sure not for everyone. That would also be interesting study.
With regards to emojis it’s of course dangerous to assume to much as that X is red on several platforms:
emojipedia.org/cross-mark-but…
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@heyitsmejak @leeloowrites I added some more info to the thread. Not quite there yet. x.com/axbom/status/1…
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@alundbergh Yes, good example. I’d say that the first one is a check mark and the second one denotes something being selected.
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@alundbergh True. As we know though, red/green color blindness is the most common variety of color deficiency.
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@Silanota I've actually put it up on Amazon. But it's in Swedish! Would love to translate it at some point but it's would still be difficult to understand the English to Swedish comparisons...
Crazy to realise I wrote it in 1995... 😬
amazon.com/Den-om%C3%B6jl…
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@dpahmp Spännande! Tack för den här delningen! Kommer ihåg att jag sett den i min ungdom.
Struggling with an icon (as one does). The struggle here is that the check mark is common for "ok/ready/done". In Sweden it has historically been used to mark wrong answers on tests. The opposite, really. So now I need more understanding on how big of a conflict this really is.
Not looking for help Twitter guidance, just sharing a struggle that has roots in cultural differences where a small country is also heavily influenced by the culture of a bigger country with differing mental models.
Reminds me of my dissertation on translation in fiction.
Rabbit hole. Here we go:
In Sweden, correct answers were traditionally marked with an "R" for "Rätt".
In Finland, ✓ often stands for väärin, i.e., "wrong", due to its similarity to a slanted v.
In Japan, the O mark is used instead of the check mark, and the X or ✓ mark are commonly used for wrong.
Also known as Marujirushi (丸印) in Japan and Gongpyo (공표(공標), ball mark) in Korea, the symbols "◯" or "⭕" are used to represent affirmation in East Asia.
In the Netherlands a 'V' is used to show that things are missing while the flourish of approval (or krul) is used for approving a section or sum.
Today I learned about "the flourish of approval"!
The plot thickens. There is a symbol called "dele" or "deleatur". It is eerily similar to the Dutch "krul" (flourish of approval).
But, the "dele" – as the name implies – means that something is marked for deletion. So actually not approved.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dele
Here's a photo showing the Dutch "krul", or "goedkeuringskrul" as the long name appears to be, being used to grade student work. For questions 9 and 10 you can see how a check mark is used to indicate a wrong answer.
blogs.transparent.com/dutch/files/20…
A picture of a graded Swedish assignment would look extremely similar.
The difference is that the "krul" would be a cursive "R". Which also is not far from how the krul looks, as has been pointed out by others. The check mark for wrong answers would be exactly the same.
If you speak Swedish, "godkeuringskrul" could be translated as "godkännandekrull" or "godkännandekringla". An approval 'curl' or 'squiggle'.
This piqued some interest so I’ll summarize where I am right now. The icon I was working on is related to healtchare and at-home-testing kits for covid 19. An icon would follow between physical and digital objects to indicate to the person they’re in the right place.
Because of constraints it necessarily has to be small. There is a proposed icon for the testing kit itself. To indicate that it is ready for pickup, the idea was to add a checkmark.
I would not have worried much about this had I not been aware that a significant number of users will be elderly and internet novices. The people who, I hypothesize, are most likely to associate the check mark with ”wrong”.
Given this risk, and the fact that there is not enough time to do reliable research, I am wary of adding the check mark. An alternative may be the letters ”OK”.
As this will be used on printed instructions accompanying each testing kit, it’s not an easy change post-decision.
But this insight provided by @alundbergh actually proved really helpful. A checkmark in a box, rather than standalone, carries more meaning. x.com/alundbergh/sta…
In short, I am not ready to finalize the icon. I have a few more days. I will try and remember to follow up here. :) But learning more about right/wrong indicators in different cultures will definitely come in useful in many situations ahead.
Love how people are sharing their culture-specific symbols in this thread: twitter.com/j_schalin/status/14381…
The “OK” hand gesture (👌) has been mentioned in the comments. The Wikipedia page on it is worth your time to understand how sensitive and offensive it can be. x.com/axbom/status/1…
I hope to one day explain to grand children how I used an answering machine with a small cassette tape, and how this was the beginnings of asynchronous chat. 😅
Beautiful, thoughtful and inspiring essay by @anabjain
Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics link.medium.com/7gVNV2mzljb