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	We chose the environment of the work space as the site of a live interaction between the main character of the entreprecarious worker, and an AI which represents the ideal virtual coach. Iris is capable of incapsulating this ambiguity in itself and making the user conscious of it through natural language. Further developments consisted of how to embody this ambiguity into one AI and at the same time announce Life Hacks that can be executed by the user. To manage this complexity we decided to assign three characters to Iris and developed their interactions as a kind of struggle between these different perspectives.<br></div>		We chose the environment of the work space as the site of a live interaction between the main character of the entreprecarious worker, and an AI which represents the ideal virtual coach. Iris is capable of incapsulating this ambiguity in itself and making the user conscious of it through natural language. Further developments consisted of how to embody this ambiguity into one AI and at the same time announce Life Hacks that can be executed by the user. To manage this complexity we decided to assign three characters to Iris and developed their interactions as a kind of struggle between these different perspectives.<br></div>

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	We chose the environment of the work space as the site of a live interaction between the main character of the entreprecarious worker, and an AI which represents the ideal virtual coach. Iris is capable of incapsulating this ambiguity in itself and making the user conscious of it through natural language. Further developments consisted of how to embody this ambiguity into one AI and at the same time announce Life Hacks that can be executed by the user. To manage this complexity we decided to assign three characters to Iris and developed their interactions as a kind of struggle between these different perspectives.<br></div>		We chose the environment of the work space as the site of a live interaction between the main character of the entreprecarious worker, and an AI which represents the ideal virtual coach. Iris is capable of incapsulating this ambiguity in itself and making the user conscious of it through natural language. Further developments consisted of how to embody this ambiguity into one AI and at the same time announce Life Hacks that can be executed by the user. To manage this complexity we decided to assign three characters to Iris and developed their interactions as a kind of struggle between these different perspectives.<br></div>

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	We chose the environment of the work space as the site of a live interaction between the main character of the entreprecarious worker, and an AI which represents the ideal virtual coach. Iris is capable of incapsulating this ambiguity in itself and making the user conscious of it through natural language. Further developments consisted of how to embody this ambiguity into one AI and at the same time announce Life Hacks that can be executed by the user. To manage this complexity we decided to assign three characters to Iris and developed their interactions as a kind of struggle between these different perspectives.<br></div>		We chose the environment of the work space as the site of a live interaction between the main character of the entreprecarious worker, and an AI which represents the ideal virtual coach. Iris is capable of incapsulating this ambiguity in itself and making the user conscious of it through natural language. Further developments consisted of how to embody this ambiguity into one AI and at the same time announce Life Hacks that can be executed by the user. To manage this complexity we decided to assign three characters to Iris and developed their interactions as a kind of struggle between these different perspectives.<br></div>

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	We chose the environment of the work space as the site of a live interaction between the main character of the entreprecarious worker, and an AI which represents the ideal virtual coach. Iris is capable of incapsulating this ambiguity in itself and making the user conscious of it through natural language. Further developments consisted of how to embody this ambiguity into one AI and at the same time announce Life Hacks that can be executed by the user. To manage this complexity we decided to assign three characters to Iris and developed their interactions as a kind of struggle between these different perspectives.<br></div>		We chose the environment of the work space as the site of a live interaction between the main character of the entreprecarious worker, and an AI which represents the ideal virtual coach. Iris is capable of incapsulating this ambiguity in itself and making the user conscious of it through natural language. Further developments consisted of how to embody this ambiguity into one AI and at the same time announce Life Hacks that can be executed by the user. To manage this complexity we decided to assign three characters to Iris and developed their interactions as a kind of struggle between these different perspectives.<br></div>

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			=== THE FILES ===

			* The .json files (“guru.json”, “rebel.json” and “announcer.json”) are the files where all the sentences the characters say are stored.
			* The script “guru-pirate.py” is the script that combines content of guru and pirate (from json files) to play their messages. It also integrates LEDs when the characters speak. When characters speak the LEDs light up and perform effects. This script runs when the camera detects motion.
			* The script "motion_detector_2.py" is used to detect motion from camera connected to raspberry pi.
			* The script "announcements.py" plays the messages of the Announcer (from json file)
			* The credits for this project are under the script “colophon.py”, they are read out loud with espeak when covering the camera with a finger for a few seconds.
			* “Motion.sh” is the script from where you bring everything to life. Just run ./motion.sh on your terminal.

			=== INSTALLING DEPENDENCIES ===

			[[File:Prototyping iris.gif \| thumbnail\|Early testings for ''Iris'' with LED's and motion detection]]

			Last Updated on: 2018-12-12<br>
			Performed in linux Debian<br>
			Raspberry Pi 3 B+<br>
			Pi Camera v2.1<br>
			LEDs — WS2801B RGB LED Streifen Farbeffekte<br>
			<br>
			# Install Pip <code>sudo apt-get update</code> <code>sudo apt-get install python-pip</code>
			# Check python2 version <code>python --version</code>
			# Check pip version <code>pip --version</code>
			# Properly install Setuptools module <code>sudo apt-get install python-dev python-setuptools</code>
			# Install opencv dependencies with pip <code>sudo pip install opencv-python</code>
			# Install imutils dependencies with pip <code>sudo pip install imutils</code>
			# Install Pillow dependencies with pip <code>sudo pip install Pillow</code>
			# Install espeak (to play the pirate) <code>sudo apt-get install espeak</code>
			# Install aplay (to play the colophon) <code>sudo apt-get install aplay</code>
			# Install sox (to play the colophon) <code>sudo apt-get install sox</code>

			[[File:Camera detection.jpg\| thumbnail\|Experimenting with opencv ]]
			[[File:Optical flow.jpg\|thumbnail\|Experimenting an option for the movement detection (with optical flow) https://docs.opencv.org/3.4/d7/d8b/tutorial_py_lucas_kanade.html]]
			[[File:EXPERIEMENT ON MOTION.png\|thumbnail\|experiment on motion]]
			===AUTOMATICALLY RUN THE ''IRIS'' ON RASPBERRY PI AT STARTUP ===
			Tutorial on how to run a program on your Raspberry Pi at startup:
			<BR>
			https://www.dexterindustries.com/howto/run-a-program-on-your-raspberry-pi-at-startup/
			<BR><BR>
			The fourth method to run a program on your Raspberry Pi at startup is to use the systemd files. systemd provides a standard process for controlling what programs run when a Linux system boots up. Note that systemd is available only from the Jessie versions of Raspbian OS.
			<BR><BR>
			====Step 1: Create A Unit File====
			Open a sample unit file using the command as shown below: <BR>
			<code>sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/sample.service</code><BR><BR>
			Add in the following text:<BR>
			<code>[Unit]
			Description=My Sample Service
			After=multi-user.target

			[Service]
			Type=idle
			ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /home/pi/sample.py

			[Install]
			WantedBy=multi-user.target</code>
			<BR><BR>
			You should save and exit the nano editor. This defines a new service called “Sample Service” and we are requesting that it is launched once the multi-user environment is available. The “ExecStart” parameter is used to specify the command we want to run. The “Type” is set to “idle” to ensure that the ExecStart command is run only when everything else has loaded. Note that the paths are absolute and define the complete location of Python as well as the location of our Python script.<BR><BR>
			In order to store the script’s text output in a log file you can change the ExecStart line to:<BR>
			<code>ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /home/pi/sample.py > /home/pi/sample.log 2>&1</code><BR>
			The permission on the unit file needs to be set to 644:<BR>
			<code>sudo chmod 644 /lib/systemd/system/sample.service</code><BR>
			<BR><BR>

			====Step 2: Configure systemd====
			Now the unit file has been defined we can tell systemd to start it during the boot sequence:<BR>
			<code>sudo systemctl daemon-reload</code>
			<code>sudo systemctl enable sample.service</code><BR><BR>
			Reboot the Pi and your custom service should run:<BR>
			<code>sudo reboot</code>

			==COLOPHON==

			''Iris'' Version 0.5 Contributors: Gill Baldwin, [[User:Simon \| Simon]] [[User:Artemis gryllaki \| <span style="color:#107896;font-family:Ubuntu bold;"> '''ΆΡΤΕΜΙΣ''']] [[User:Bohye Woo \| <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 1pt; color: #000;"> B O <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 3pt; color: #000;"> B O <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 5pt; color: #000;"> B O <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 7pt; color: #000;"> B O <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; color: #000;"> B O <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt; color: #000;"> B O <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt; color: #000;"> B O <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15pt; color: #000;"> B O <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13pt; color: #000;"> B O <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11pt; color: #000;"> B O <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; color: #000;"> B O <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 7pt; color: #000;"> B O <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 5pt; color: #000;"> B O <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 3pt; color: #000;"> B O <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 1pt; color: #000;"> B O ]] [[User:Zpalomagar \| <span style=" color:#ff00bf">'''Paloma''']] [[User:Tancre \| Tancredi]][[User:Pedro Sá Couto \|<span style="color:#000;font-family:Helvetica;text-decoration: none; font-size: 6pt; letter-spacing: 18px; font-weight: bold;"> PEDRO SÁ COUTO]] [[User:Rita Graca \| <span style="text-decoration: none; color:#000"> '''Rita''']][[User:)biyibiyibiyi( \| )biyibiyibiyi(]], Silvio Lorusso, Aymeric Mansoux, André Castro, Steve Rushton, Michael Murtaugh, Leslie Robbins. Produced and published by the Experimental Publishing (XPUB) program of the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, December 2018. A collaboration between the Research Department of Het Nieuwe Instituut and XPUB.
			<br><br>
			You can find ''IRIS'' launching:https://burnout.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/activities/life-hacks-introducing-iris

	[http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Special_Issue:_Life_Hacks Overview of Special Issue #07: Life Hacks]<br>		[http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Special_Issue:_Life_Hacks Overview of Special Issue #07: Life Hacks]<br>

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	== '''Life Hack Agent: Iris''' ==		== '''Life Hack Agent: Iris''' ==
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	Life Hack Agent: '''Iris''' is a physical device, ostensibly, an “artificial intelligence”, whose aim is to increase productivity. It is installed in work environments where workers can easily interact with it. However, the device is inhabited by three different personalities: Corporate Guru, Pirate Signal and Announcer. The interactions with and conflicts between these three personalities forces the user to adopt a reflexive and critical attitude toward the device. The user triggers the performance and is placed in an ambiguous position; doubtful if the emphasis is on productivity or happiness.		Life Hack Agent: '''Iris''' is a physical device, ostensibly, an “artificial intelligence”, whose aim is to increase productivity. It is installed in work environments where workers can easily interact with it. However, the device is inhabited by three different personalities: Corporate Guru, Pirate Signal and Announcer. The interactions with and conflicts between these three personalities forces the user to adopt a reflexive and critical attitude toward the device. The user triggers the performance and is placed in an ambiguous position; doubtful if the emphasis is on productivity or happiness.

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	== '''Life Hack Agent: Iris''' ==		== '''Life Hack Agent: Iris''' ==
			Life Hack Agent: '''Iris''' is a physical device, ostensibly, an “artificial intelligence”, whose aim is to increase productivity. It is installed in work environments where workers can easily interact with it. However, the device is inhabited by three different personalities: Corporate Guru, Pirate Signal and Announcer. The interactions with and conflicts between these three personalities forces the user to adopt a reflexive and critical attitude toward the device. The user triggers the performance and is placed in an ambiguous position; doubtful if the emphasis is on productivity or happiness.

			Iris takes the appearance of a manufactured product; a compact 3D printed shell that contains a Raspberry Pi and two speakers, and at the top of the device, an infinity mirror with an LED strip and a camera. When it detects movement via the camera it starts to speak, and the LEDs, connected to the audio levels of the output, start to glow at different intensity in relation to the strength of the audio signal. When the device is active, the infinity mirror produces a combination of an endless light corridor and a faint reflection of oneself.

			The Corporate Guru invites the user to repeat positive affirmations and invite self-inquiry into their thoughts as part of a meditative session. Its soothing voice is interrupted unexpectedly by the raspy, computerised whisper of a Pirate Signal, who responds with snarky asides that cast doubt on the Guru’s instructions and the very process of taking part in such sessions. Whether the Pirate Signal is part of the corporate manufacturer’s design or not is not clear; it could easily be coming from an outside infiltrator (e.g. a hackivist) whose aim is to subvert the process. The third voice is of an Announcer, who, every hour, between 9:00 and 17:00 (apart from a lunch break at 13:00), describes a work-related problem and a Life Hack which addresses it, reminding workers of their autonomy and suggesting practical ways to improve their everyday lives in small, improvisational actions.

			Iris follows the conclusion of the first part of the publication, Ten Theses on Life Hacks, in which we outlined the meaning of the ambiguity within Life Hacks, everyday actions which address both an improvement of personal life and an excess of productivity that can eventually lead to burn-out. The aim was to create a device to let the user experience this ambiguity in a clear way and develop their own critical position.

			We chose the environment of the work space as the site of a live interaction between the main character of the entreprecarious worker, and an AI which represents the ideal virtual coach. Iris is capable of incapsulating this ambiguity in itself and making the user conscious of it through natural language. Further developments consisted of how to embody this ambiguity into one AI and at the same time announce Life Hacks that can be executed by the user. To manage this complexity we decided to assign three characters to Iris and developed their interactions as a kind of struggle between these different perspectives.<br></div>

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	[http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/d/df/X_theses.pdf Read: Ten Theses on Life Hacks]</div>		[http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/d/df/X_theses.pdf Read: Ten Theses on Life Hacks]</div><br>

	== '''Life Hack Agent: Iris''' ==		== '''Life Hack Agent: Iris''' ==

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	[http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/d/df/X_theses.pdf Read: Ten Theses on Life Hacks]</div>		[http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/d/df/X_theses.pdf Read: Ten Theses on Life Hacks]</div>

	~~<br><br>~~		== '''Life Hack Agent: Iris''' ==





	[http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Special_Issue:_Life_Hacks Overview of Special Issue #07: Life Hacks]<br>		[http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Special_Issue:_Life_Hacks Overview of Special Issue #07: Life Hacks]<br>

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	'''Ten Theses on Life Hacks''' is the first publication of Special Issue #07. It attempts to acquire a widened perspective on how Life Hacks can be defined and how they relate to our collective experiences and reflections.~~<br><br>~~		'''Ten Theses on Life Hacks''' is the first publication of Special Issue #07. It attempts to acquire a widened perspective on how Life Hacks can be defined and how they relate to our collective experiences and reflections. Life Hacks are small improvisational interventions to the immediate environment; spontaneous actions that aim to improve or adapt materials to specific needs. A simple example, such as tying a knot in a earphone cable to determine easily which is for the left ear or the right without having to look, can be considered a Life Hack. They are diasporic, shared within communities both on- and offline in ever-increasing processes of self-optimisation.<br><br>
	Life Hacks are small improvisational interventions to the immediate environment; spontaneous actions that aim to improve or adapt materials to specific needs. A simple example, such as tying a knot in a earphone cable to determine easily which is for the left ear or the right without having to look, can be considered a Life Hack. They are diasporic, shared within communities both on- and offline in ever-increasing processes of self-optimisation.<br><br>		The text consists of ten theses, the first of which is a selection of criteria that allow us to test whether something is a Life Hack or not. The remaining theses present extended arguments supported by examples, on how to identify specific features of Life Hacks, in which environment (and space) they exist and what kind of culture they foster. Understanding Life Hacks in the context of an advanced capitalist society raises the question of the ambiguity of a system in which the entrepreneurial routine of the self is internalized to perform an ever-working life. In actuality, Life Hacks bring about the possibility of reappropriating everyday life in a creative and practical response, managing precarity and complexity.<br><br>
	The text consists of ten theses, the first of which is a selection of criteria that allow us to test whether something is a Life Hack or not. The remaining theses present extended arguments supported by examples, on how to identify specific features of Life Hacks, in which environment (and space) they exist and what kind of culture they foster.~~<br><br>~~
	Understanding Life Hacks in the context of an advanced capitalist society raises the question of the ambiguity of a system in which the entrepreneurial routine of the self is internalized to perform an ever-working life. In actuality, Life Hacks bring about the possibility of reappropriating everyday life in a creative and practical response, managing precarity and complexity.<br><br>
	This publication includes a Life Hack in its format. With the addition of a series of holes, each loose page can be seen as a “hackable surface”. The publication aims to depart from the traditional form of a finished book, inviting readers to bind it using an eclectic choice from a range of unorthodox materials included with the publication. This strategy incentives the reader to rethink their personal ideal form of the book, transforming it into a hand-made object. As such, the publication is completed by the reader, who is left to improvise a make-shift solution to bind the publication. The goal is not only to share the text, but to also provide an experience in which a life-hacked binding transforms the reader into an active subject, rather than a passive consumer. This small conceit illustrates that the process is even more noticeable than the outcome.<br></div>		This publication includes a Life Hack in its format. With the addition of a series of holes, each loose page can be seen as a “hackable surface”. The publication aims to depart from the traditional form of a finished book, inviting readers to bind it using an eclectic choice from a range of unorthodox materials included with the publication. This strategy incentives the reader to rethink their personal ideal form of the book, transforming it into a hand-made object. As such, the publication is completed by the reader, who is left to improvise a make-shift solution to bind the publication. The goal is not only to share the text, but to also provide an experience in which a life-hacked binding transforms the reader into an active subject, rather than a passive consumer. This small conceit illustrates that the process is even more noticeable than the outcome.<br></div>