Here is the slide deck and audio recording of a recent lecture I gave to my NYU ITP2800 students. The topic was “Building an Effective User Experience for Mobile Smartphone Applications Used Under Duress”, with the ideas and content coming from an earlier blog post / crowd-sourced effort on this topic. I still consider this [...]
DISCLAIMER: I am by no means an expert in this issue – I am just an an enthusiastic hacker with a dream. Also I don’t read Tibetan, but I enjoy looking at it!
Thanks to the open-source movement and the hard work of many Tibet supporters and typography experts, I am happy to announce that rendering [...]
I am grateful to have been included in this video round-up from the Open Mobile Camp a few weeks ago:
Mobile phones in human rights monitoring is still relatively rare and there are few examples where mobile shave been used successfully in this field. In this video from the recent Open Mobile Camp in New York, [...]
One of my students at ITP is working on a mobile application for the Android platform that will be used under duress and in generally stressful conditions. These situations might include documenting children at a refugee camp, capturing medical information in a remote clinic, or identifying victims after a national disaster.
I’d like to use this [...]
I’d like to make this post without much fanfare. Just looking to share information on the work I’ve been doing with the fantastically radical team over at the Tor Project, as part of my work on the Guardian Project. We have successfully ported the native C Tor app to Android and built an Android application [...]
Below is my rough statement for the US Helsinki Commission “Twitter v. Tyrants” hearing this Thursday. I would greatly appreciate any of your comments and feedback, as I will be polishing this up a bit before the hearing Thursday and before I formally submit it into record. I mostly wonder whether I have made to [...]
I’m honored to have been asked to participate in a hearing being held by the US Helsinki Commission this Thursday, in Washington, D.C. While my enthusiasm for the power and potential of new media will be evident, I hope to bring a metered tone to this discussion, laying out a number of issues, including the [...]
Homework for Week 5
Catch up on previous weeks’ readings and homework that you haven’t turned in yet
Continue to develop and plan your cause with a target on being able to concisely explain it for your midterm and the next Speed Geek!
Review the content presented in class and decide on the approach (server vs client or [...]
A few of you know that I’m a huge fanboy of something called the CyanogenMod. If you have a Goodle Android phone, like the T-Mobile G1 or myTouch, watch out, because before you know it, I’ll have it rooted and running an alternate version of the operating system.CyanogenMod is like Ubuntu for mobiles – the [...]
Here are is the homework, slides, notes, links and videos from the second week of ITP2800 – Social Activism using Mobile Technology.
Homework for Week 2
Watch the videos linked to here: http://delicious.com/nathanialfreitas/itp2800+week2
Continue reading/finish “Little Brother” http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/
Take pictures or video using a camera phone or Flip-style device of something controversial or in a place where you might [...]