by Ethan Barr

In this podcast I bring awareness to the future of surveillance, through gait recognition, while also describing the way it has developed over the recent years. This idea of being identifiable through the way you walk brings up the questions of whether it is an intrusion to one’s privacy or strictly a moral form of surveillance. These questions are left unanswered in the podcast, but through the information available to you, as the audience, think about the stance and how you perceive this type of surveillance. I wanted this podcast to draw those thoughts by being informative and interesting. I hope this podcast can get you thinking about the way you are being watched and how easily identifiable everyone may be in the near future.

Sources:

Giles, J. (2012, September 19). Cameras know you by your walk. New Scientist. Retrieved from https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528835-600-cameras-know-you-by-your-walk/

Kang, D. (2018, November 06). Chinese ‘gait recognition’ TECH Ids people by how they walk. Associated Press. Retrieved from https://apnews.com/article/bf75dd1c26c947b7826d270a16e2658a

Xu, S. (2020, August 5). Emotion Recognition From Gait Analyses: Current Research and Future Directions (Rep.). Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.11461.pdf

Schmelzer, R. (2020, July 1). Can AI Detect Your Emotion Just By How You Walk? Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2020/03/29/can-ai-detect-your-emotion-just-by-how-you-walk/?sh=3607c8f169de.

Image: “Just Walk on By,” Alexa Clark, Flickr, CC BY-NC