Sensing Machines

How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life

Chris Salter

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MIT Press
17 May 2022

Technology: general issues

"How we are tracked, surveilled, tantalized, and seduced by machines ranging from smart watches and Roombas to immersive art installations.

Sensing machines are everywhere in our world. As we move through the day, electronic sensors and computers adjust our thermostats, guide our Roombas, count our steps, change the orientation of an image when we rotate our phones. There are more of these electronic devices in the world than there are people-in 2020, thirty to fifty billion of them (versus 7.8 billion people), with more than a trillion expected in the next decade. In Sensing Machines, Chris Salter examines how we are tracked, surveilled, tantalized, and seduced by machines ranging from smart watches and mood trackers to massive immersive art installations.

Salter, an artist/scholar who has worked with sensors and computers for more than twenty years, explains that the quantification of bodies, senses, and experience did not begin with the surveillance capitalism practiced by Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google but can be traced back to mathematical and statistical techniques of the nineteenth century. He describes the emergence of the ""sensed self,"" investigating how sensor technology has been deployed in music and gaming, programmable and immersive art environments, driving, and even eating, with e-tongues and e-noses that can taste and smell for us. Sensing technology turns our experience into data; but Salter's story isn't just about what these machines want from us, but what we want from them-new sensations, the thrill of the uncanny, and magic that will transport us from our daily grind."

By: Chris Salter
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780262046602
ISBN 10: 0262046601
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 17 May 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Prologue 1 1 Measuring Sensation 15 I Playing 2 Accelerate! 43 3 ""You Are the Controller"" 61 II Immersing 4 Borderless 83 5 Androids That Sing 107 III Engineering 6 Sensing on Wheels 127 7 Tasting Machines 147 IV Monitoring 8 Ten Thousand Steps 165 9 Machines Like Us 179 10 Becoming Aware 195 V Enhancing 11 Sensing and Hacking the (Soft) Self 219 Epilogue 247 Acknowledgments 257 Notes 259 Index 303"

Chris Salter is an artist, Professor of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University, and Codirector of the Hexagram network for arts, culture, and technology. He is the author of Entangled- Technology and the Transformation of Performance and Alien Agency- Experimental Encounters with Art in the Making, both published by the MIT Press.