Resources
- Identity Use Cases & Scenarios.
- FIDIS Deliverables.
- Identity of Identity.
- Interoperability.
- Profiling.
- D7.2: Descriptive analysis and inventory of profiling practices.
- D7.3: Report on Actual and Possible Profiling Techniques in the Field of Ambient Intelligence.
- D7.4: Implications of profiling practices on democracy.
- D7.6 Workshop on AmI, Profiling and RFID.
- D7.7: RFID, Profiling, and AmI.
- D7.8: Workshop on Ambient Law.
- D7.9: A Vision of Ambient Law.
- D7.10: Multidisciplinary literature selection, with Wiki discussion forum on Profiling, AmI, RFID, Biometrics and Identity.
- D7.11: Kick-off Workshop on biometric behavioural profiling and Transparency Enhancing Technologies.
- Forensic Implications.
- HighTechID.
- Privacy and legal-social content.
- Mobility and Identity.
- Other.
- IDIS Journal.
- FIDIS Interactive.
- Press & Events.
- In-House Journal.
- Booklets
- Identity in a Networked World.
- Identity R/Evolution.
Scene 1: Preparing to work
Tom is 32 years old and is still living with his parents in Stuttgart. He is a financial consultant working for a large corporation. He enjoys travelling and likes listening to jazz and going to the cinema. He has dark hair, brown eyes, and he likes wearing a hat. Every day Tom wakes up at about 7:00 a.m. and leaves home at 7:30 a.m to go to work. Today it is 7:05 a.m. and Tom is still sleeping. Since it is a weekday and Tom has not taken the day off (based on information retrieved by the personnel records in his company) nor is it a public holiday, the system starts playing a track of soft jazz music in order for Tom to wake up. The system detects that Tom moves and a sweet synthetic voice informs him that he should get up so that he is not late to work.
The weather today is rather cold so the system urges Tom to put on his grey costume, which is warmer than the light blue one he has just taken out of his closet, and, since it is rainy, it tells Tom to take his umbrella with him.
Tom left home with an 8-minute delay today, as the sensors in the room reporting inactivity have reported, whereas the rain has caused traffic jams in some streets that are in Tom’s daily route to work, based on information retrieved by street cameras. Since Tom must not be late for work, he receives an alarm signal on his Personal Wrist Communicator suggesting to him that he should go to work by metro today. However, Tom moves towards the car to go to work as he is not used to taking the metro, only to find that he is unable to unlock it, since today the sensor at the car lock has been notified about the traffic and blocks Tom’s effort to open it. Despondently, Tom takes the metro to go to work. As he has subscribed to the news service, a list of current news is displayed on his mobile device. It includes a car accident in Stuttgart allegedly caused by a software error in the traffic-control system, the stock exchange, a strike at the city centre going to take place tomorrow, a great earthquake in Malaysia, a jazz festival to be held in Munich in 1 month. News such as the elections in Poland, new job positions in the public sector and the glorious start of the new NBA player in the Olympiakos basketball team were not presented to Tom, as they were considered as lying outside his interest by the news service.
Scene 2: His girlfriend’s going out
Tom has been involved with Maria, a 29-year-old colleague of his, over the past two years. Maria is making plans with her friends for tonight to go to a new bar in the city centre. Tom will have to stay at work till late in the evening and won’t be able to join them. As Maria is having a nice time with her friends at the bar, a man on the other side of the bar – Brian – is staring at her. The bar’s system is about to suggest to the barman to give an aspirin to Brian, who must be ill because his brow is covered in sweat and he keeps staring at a single point, when it is corrected by the sensors noticing the rain outside and re-interpreting Brian as being humid with rain as well as being interested in Maria in a statistically significant way. After a while, he calls the waiter and in a few minutes the waiter arrives at Maria’s table serving her with a drink and discreetly pointing out Brian. Maria takes the glass in her hand and smiles at Brian. The camera detects the flirting between the two people. Almost simultaneously, Tom receives a commercial ad of the “GetTheCheaters” service at his mobile phone advertising the latest features of the service. Tom is reluctant in getting subscribed to this service, but as he is rather jealous and curious and because the ad is formulated precisely in way to create trust with a person like Tom, he decides to proceed with it. During the smooth subscription procedure, he submits information about his girlfriend, including two photos and personal information, by a single click – his mobile phone automatically selecting the requested information. When Brian is about to leave the bar, he goes towards Maria’s table, gives her a piece of paper, smiles, and leaves. Maria has a look at the piece of paper, smiles likewise, and puts it in her bag. The “GetTheCheaters” service sends an alarm to Tom informing him that his girlfriend is flirting with a guy in the bar. In the evening, Maria receives an sms letting her know that “If you like flirting – subscribe now to our Mr Right Radar service”, but Maria chooses to ignore it.
Although Tom and Maria do not know it, the personal-relationship services targeting them have been signaled by their employer. The company’s employee-watch system calculated that Tom and Maria had low chances of having a successful long-term relationship, and their current affair therefore seems to jeopardise their employee value. By enlisting the system’s personal-relationship services, the company hopes that Tom and Maria will sooner realise themselves that they are not really made for each other.
The other morning at work, Tom is quite distant and avoids Maria by telling her that he has much work to do. He seems angry and not sure what to do. The surveillance cameras at work detect his sad and distracted mood and the fact that he makes long pauses staring at the window. Also, the keystroke dynamics monitoring tool at his computer detects nervousness. As the company knows that the employees’ mood greatly influences their productivity, it uses the “KeepThemUp” service. Taking into account what happened the previous night, this service concludes that it is difficult for Tom to concentrate on his work. It thus sends him an alarm suggesting to him to go out for a small walk so that he can clear his mind. Tom does not seem eager to move from his office. The service insists and sends more alarms, and the door sensor opens the door. Tom stands up but he chooses not to follow the advice and just heads towards the coffee machine. He selects strong black coffee. The machine however serves him decaf instead. When Tom gets back to his office, he finds a MentalBoost® screensaver message: “Overactive people work better with herbal tea and decaf. Try one!“
Scene 3: At a shop and at the park
Tom has decided to stay at home and relax this afternoon, while Maria is going out for shopping. The surveillance camera at the mall detects that Maria is standing outside a shop and is looking at her watch. The camera infers that she is waiting for someone. Maria receives a message in her mobile phone informing her that the shop named “La Femme” on the same floor has special offers in perfumes. Maria finds this very timely, as when this morning she was about to leave her house, a sensor on her perfume bottle detected that the level of the perfume was low even before Maria herself noticed it.
Suddenly, Brian arrives and they kiss and hug. The “GetTheCheaters” service which is monitoring Maria classifies this behaviour as potentially erotic and notifies Tom that Maria is at the specific mall with a man. It streams a video from the scene. While Maria gets an sms on her mobile phone advertising a romantic coffee corner nearby, Tom decides to go to the mall. As he reaches the place, he receives information in his mobile phone about Maria’s current location. She is still with Brian but now in the park outside the mall. When Tom arrives, Maria tries to explain and Tom becomes aggressive towards Brian.
The surveillance camera at the park detects the incidence of violence and an alarm sounds to two policemen who are just some 100 meters away from the scene. The two policemen arrive and they manage to calm down the two men. Automatically, a citizen personal-behaviour profiling system updates Tom’s profile with a record of this incident.
Scene 4: Three months later
It has been about two months since he broke up with his girlfriend, and Tom spends really too much time at work, having lost interest in going out with his friends. The camera at work, through the emotion and activity recognition system, detects that he is quite often sad and cannot concentrate. His manager has been receiving notifications about his behaviour, and MentalBoost® messages frequently arrive at Tom’s mobile device, proclaiming things like “It is no use crying over spilt milk. Concentrating on your work makes you feel better!”. Meanwhile, the sensors at his house have calculated that he spends much more time at home than he used to. Integrating information on Tom from different sectors, such as university records, banks, religion, health and sports records, as well as the dynamically constructed pattern of his behaviour and preferences, a dating service matches Tom’s resulting overall profile with others so that it finds potential dates for Tom.
The home entertainment system at Tom’s home notifies him that it could find some very attractive matching profiles for girls he could date, but Tom rejects the service indignantly. The next day, the system suggests a side-by-side comparison of profiles: Tom’s own archived profile from 5 years ago, when he met Maria; Maria’s own profile; profiles of the two best matches the dating service can find; and finally Tom’s current profile. Finding such an objective comparison irresistible, Tom accepts to look at these data. He realises that Maria’s profile seems to fit his 5-years-old profile much better than it fits his current one. Clearly, he concludes, he has changed over the years, and maybe Maria was really no longer an ideal match for him. The emotion detection system registers his initially cold but gradually warmer reaction to the data he is being shown.
The system now sends notifications to the girls in question that a potential matching profile for them has been detected. As it happens, there is no positive reaction, at least not yet, so the system does not inform Tom about any particular developments.
Scene 5: A few weeks later
As Tom is out for a walk, he passes by a café. Here, Jennie is taking a cup of tea with a friend; she is a single 28-year-old French teacher who attends dancing classes and dreams of traveling all around the world. The system had detected a month ago that her profile matches Tom’s well and had notified her, but she had not responded to the profile information. The system assesses that a personal meeting is much more likely to be successful than a display of profile information to each person, so it decides to notify Tom that it’s worth going into this café: “A surprise may be waiting for you in this café! Click here for a clue.” Tom decides to ignore the clue and simply go inside the café to see what the future has in store.
Jennie has in the meanwhile received her daily horoscope advising her to look out for handsome dark-haired men wearing a hat. Just when she finishes reading the horoscope, she looks up, exactly in time to see Tom entering the café.
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