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Design Out Crime
Today’s interesting task was attending the Curtin Uni Design Out Crime award presentation. The competition is run by the Curtin design and urban planning bunch and the Office of Crime Prevention of WA with the intention of promoting interesting designs to reduce crime.
The winner was Park Friend – an outdoor seat which doubles up as a bike rack. The idea here was that people are always around the bikes, hence the baddies are less inclined to steal them.
Tele and I came second with Tagless, otherwise known as Graffiti Detect. Our project doesn’t really fit in with the whole “design out crime” thing… but it’s meant to detect window scratching on buses, trains, shops etc through a piezo microphone and some signal processing.
Third was the No Climb Bin – explains itself really.
The most interesting discussion here was how to prevent all this behavior in the first place rather than just catching people as they do their naughty stuff.
Wilson catches up with the Joneses
Well, I’ve finally decided to check out this whole “blog” thing.
It all happened after talking to a Brett Adams from IMPCA. He tells me that a lot of people do this blogging stuff now and I tend to believe Brett, because he knows a lot more about stuff than I do.
Now It’s time to see if *I* can bore the world with my ramblings! Hoorarh!
Expect to see posts about whatever I’ve stumbled across during my morning coffee. This might include stuff related to:
- My work: Virtual Observer
- Research in the Computer Science field
- Happenings in the area I live in
- and maybe even a few political rants if I feel up to it.
Also prepare to be slightly bored. I can’t imagine why anyone but me would bother to read this 🙂
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