Daria Perevezentsev

Hackers Camp Day 1

Mediamatic is going to kick start this year’s Picnic with a first live event, a Hackers Camp, a team of professional geeks and interaction designers with technical and creative skills who will use RFID and physical computing to realize the most creative and ambitious of ideas. Mediamatic has assembled a nerd’s paradise – a bunch of exciting equipment for participants to play with while questioning social interaction and identity.

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Morning

A brightly lit room of Oosterlijk Meterhuis is filled with shiny laptops, cords and strong smell of coffee. After a brief introduction, Klaas lists available equipment and seems like brainstorming is about to begin. The anticipation is high but there are still a few obstacles on the way - the participants have to familiarize themselves with the working environment, RFID tags, RFID readers, social interaction concept and the coffee machine. So in short the brainstorming will take place after lunch starts up the brains.

Afternoon

Semi-sunny afternoon weather is positively stimulating grey cells and the results are exciting.

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geeky mess - Daria Perevezentsev

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Discussing privacy - Discussing privacy: sure, you can encrypt the number of beer-vouchers printed using a given RFID; and using oAuth to lock the visitor toilets is also perfectly safe. Only it breaches any level of absurdness.. - We'll fix that later; but could we actually measure the throughput , now? Daria Perevezentsev

With: Robin Gareus, Luis Rodil-Fernandez
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Thinking - Thinking about evolution as basics for social game grows into an idea of developing “creatures”, your own personal cute virtual creatures that you can make strong or weak, which can evolve and become stronger while you connect with other people. Daria Perevezentsev

With: Luis Rodil-Fernandez, Thijs Gadiot, Kai-Ting Lin
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Breaking the ice - What would be an easy creative way to help start a conversation between two people? Must be something very silly. Daria Perevezentsev

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Buying privacy and selling security - Did you know that security is just an excuse to steal your privacy? Think again Daria Perevezentsev

With: Adriaan Wormgoor, Simon Claessen
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Performance - How about a performance where participants pose as part of a company that uses private information and sells it? They call themsleves department of information security and privacy Daria Perevezentsev

With: Eleonora Oreggia, Simon Claessen
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Geek - Daria Perevezentsev

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How about a massage? - How about a massage from a “mobile massage couch” whose quality will be based on your “massage credits”, or a platform that can raise you up and down depending on your “google meter”, or a “friend finder” that maps your coordinates for your friends? Daria Perevezentsev

With: Axel Roest, Fabienne Serriere, Ralph Meijer, Edwin Dertien
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Contact Memory - It’s nice to check your “contact memory” - how well you remember your contacts and if you mix their details up it must be for a reason and it must be also a good reason to connect them. But the most exciting is the “mobile polling device” or in other words an “ambient mood visualiser”, which will project audience’s mood Daria Perevezentsev

With: Mark Wubben, Eelco Wagenaar, Arjan Scherpenisse
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Magnetic Bar - An interaction force ball, jubilator with RFID camera will stream the profiles of the one's touching it. But the favourite is the “Magnetic Bar” holding glasses which are moved by magnets on the bar counter away from you to the one person with whom you should connect. Just follow your beer. Daria Perevezentsev

With: Erik Borra, Martijn Pannevis, Dirk van Oosterbosch