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===Biography===
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'''Steve Mann''' (born 1962, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
Steve Mann holds degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in Media Arts and Sciences '97) and McMaster University, where he was also inducted into the McMaster University Alumni Hall of Fame, Alumni Gallery, 2004, in recognition of his career as an inventor and teacher. While at MIT he was one of the founding members of the Wearable Computers group in the [[Media Lab at MIT|Media Lab]]. In 2004 he was named the recipient of the 2004 Leonardo Award for Excellence for his article "Existential Technology," published in Leonardo 36:1.
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===Self Portrait of Steve Mann with Wearable Computing Apparatus, 1981===
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Dr. Steve Mann, Canadian technologist and teacher, is a living laboratory for the cyborg life-style. He is one of the leaders in WearComp (wearable computing) and helped found the Wearable Computers group at the MIT Media Lab. 
===Paper: WearCam: The Wearable Camera===
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===Diminished Reality===
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Dr. Mann believes computers should be designed to function in ways organic to human needs rather than requiring humans to adapt to demanding requirements of technology. Mann has developed computer systems — both wearable and embedded — to augment biological systems and capabilities during all waking hours. His work touches a wide range of disciplines from implant technology to sousveillance, privacy, cyber security and cyborg-law.
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for cyborg lifestyles.” </blockquote>
  
===Image Recognition and Replacement===
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Mann first experimented with wearable computing in high school in the 70s. At MIT he literally bristled with equipment, wearing 80 pounds of computing equipment to class. Moore’s Law, however, has continuously reduced the form factor. In 1994 Mann introduced a Wearable Wireless Webcam that transmitted images for “cyber-logging” on a webpage in near real-time. Later his EyeTap camera worn over one eye provided wearers with computer-mediated visions of reality. Recent versions are virtually invisible on frames of glasses.
  
===Mobile Data Entry===
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Dr. Mann has written that “unlike other computers (including laptops and PDAs), a WearComp is inextricably intertwined with its wearer - WearComp's ‘always ready’ characteristic leads to a new form of synergy between human and computer". Mann sees this as relying on three operational modalities.
  
===Contextual Notification Systems===
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The first is constancy, which is about technology designed to be available at any time or place. Signals run from computer to human and human to computer constantly.
  
===Computer-Mediated  Reality===
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The second is augmentation, which defines the technology as serving to augment human activities. In other words, computers are not seen as primary, but as always being in service to human sensing, needs and priorities.
  
===Evolution of Prosthesis===
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The third is mediation, which is about encapsulating the human user with a protective solitude and privacy. The technology can filter or block information coming in (solitude.) Or it can filter or block information from leaking out (privacy.) 
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===Present Day Steve Mann===
 
  
===Current work - Hydraulophone===
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===EEG Concert===
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Dr. Steve Mann is author of more than 200 publications. His 2001 book Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer provides a popular culture view of day-to-day cyborg life. CYBERMAN, a feature film about his life and work, was released the same year. Dr. Mann’s research and activities are visible online at http://wearcam.org and http://eyetap.org. Mann received a PhD in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT in 1997.
  
===Multiple Instruments Concert===
 
  
 
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===Book===
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[[Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer]]
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Revision as of 20:32, 8 April 2012

Steve Mann (born 1962, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

Lightspace-wearcomp-lightcomb-steve-mann.jpg

Dr. Steve Mann, Canadian technologist and teacher, is a living laboratory for the cyborg life-style. He is one of the leaders in WearComp (wearable computing) and helped found the Wearable Computers group at the MIT Media Lab.

Dr. Mann believes computers should be designed to function in ways organic to human needs rather than requiring humans to adapt to demanding requirements of technology. Mann has developed computer systems — both wearable and embedded — to augment biological systems and capabilities during all waking hours. His work touches a wide range of disciplines from implant technology to sousveillance, privacy, cyber security and cyborg-law.

“…a living laboratory for cyborg lifestyles.”

Mann first experimented with wearable computing in high school in the 70s. At MIT he literally bristled with equipment, wearing 80 pounds of computing equipment to class. Moore’s Law, however, has continuously reduced the form factor. In 1994 Mann introduced a Wearable Wireless Webcam that transmitted images for “cyber-logging” on a webpage in near real-time. Later his EyeTap camera worn over one eye provided wearers with computer-mediated visions of reality. Recent versions are virtually invisible on frames of glasses.

Dr. Mann has written that “unlike other computers (including laptops and PDAs), a WearComp is inextricably intertwined with its wearer - WearComp's ‘always ready’ characteristic leads to a new form of synergy between human and computer". Mann sees this as relying on three operational modalities.

The first is constancy, which is about technology designed to be available at any time or place. Signals run from computer to human and human to computer constantly.

The second is augmentation, which defines the technology as serving to augment human activities. In other words, computers are not seen as primary, but as always being in service to human sensing, needs and priorities.

The third is mediation, which is about encapsulating the human user with a protective solitude and privacy. The technology can filter or block information coming in (solitude.) Or it can filter or block information from leaking out (privacy.)


Steve-mann-evolution-of-wearable.jpg

Dr. Steve Mann is author of more than 200 publications. His 2001 book Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer provides a popular culture view of day-to-day cyborg life. CYBERMAN, a feature film about his life and work, was released the same year. Dr. Mann’s research and activities are visible online at http://wearcam.org and http://eyetap.org. Mann received a PhD in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT in 1997.


(url recommendations go here)


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