I Always Feel Like Someone Is Watching Me :: Symblogogy

by Edmund Jenks | May 13, 2007 at 08:46 am | 1139 views | 1 comment

When you are out in the crowd, looking around, you know, to see what is going on and to see what information is available, did you ever stop to think that the people who are displaying that information are looking right back at you?

They want to know what you are doing and if their information is sinking in!

They really are looking right into your eyes … well, tracking your eyes to try to understand your behavior. They are asking themselves, “Aren't our billboards pretty enough?” and “What is your problem, you didn’t even give us a gaze ... or a glance!”

This from the New Scientist -

Tracking billboards could give you the eyeball

Tom Simonite - NewScientist.com news service - 14:11 09 May 2007

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jordan

at 10:01 on May 13th, 2007

good stuff:

All hail the master of the tech headline! I'm imagining billboards as a semiautonomous crowd of two-dimensional pitchmen, vying for eyeball movement, rotating ever so slightly to maximize "face-time". I don't know exactly how I feel about that, but it's not a good feeling. This is a brilliant article.