Dilan Cokyasar

+ REFLECTION

OVERALL I didn’t give myself enough time to complete the projects to the full extent that I could have. this was a result of not planning and preparing beforehand which is slightly disappointing as both projects have so much potential .

CRIMEBOT

when working with glitch to build the website for crimebott I came into many complications with uploading pictures and and some placing of words which was expected as I’ve never built a website from scratch before.

<< this is how far I got using glitch.

so naturally I turned to look else where to build a website where I could get a bit more help. and as I was looking at some source code templets for inspiration and I came across w3schools which I have mentioned in a previous blog post.

they had a range of templets so I chose one and adapted it to cater for my project.

w3shcools was very effective in the way I was able to learn how to navigate html and some java script.

https://www.w3spaces-preview.com/crimebott/index.html#about

the code I adapted :

I wasn’t able to make it as interactive as I initially wanted the website to be however I adapted it quite well.

<<<< for example I wanted the user to hover over the caravans in this image where they could click each one and some information would pop up about a suspect ect, with the chatbot aka crimebott the detective.

I created the chat bot through voice flow which made it relatively simple as it was very easy to navigate through the website.

you can chat with crimebott through the link bellow:

https://creator.voiceflow.com/prototype/62a61e0f9d78a938e4ac87ce

I unfortunately wasn’t able to find a way to link the chat bot to the website 🙁

GIFTBOT

as you can see gift bot wasn’t my main priority in the project. and it never left the planning / prototype stage. the image above is a rough idea/rough prototype of what I would have wanted it to look like……

• you’ve got the welcome page introducing the website
• the description page where you enter the details of the person you are generating a gift for
• information about your budget
• loading page
• finally the generated gifts with prices that range fro cheapest to highest and also which website you can find them from.

what may be the socio-technological implications of the computational methods and tools in the development of your projects? what strategies have you implemented ?

through out the process of my projects I’ve come to notice that I may not have enough time to complete everything due to some complications and lack of experience. such as making a 3D, 360 degree interactive crime chat bot may be a bit of a far stretch. so to work around the issue I have decided to make a 2D website using glitch. this is the first time I’ve tried to build a website from scratch and I’ve came into many complications along the way which may effect wethere or not I finish 100 percent. however the website web3schools has been very helpful with learning how to code a website from scratch. with the chat bot aspect of the project I have been using voice flow to build a chatbot which has been relatively easy but I am yet to encounter complications when trying connect the chatbot to the website. overall I’ve had to strip back the amount of technologies I wanted to implement in the first place.

the sprawl

the sprawl talks about geopolitical perceptions of propaganda and how the internet puts forward facts and fiction some of which normalise injustices and dangers (such as men who advocate “legal rape”)within individuals and certain areas specifically Ukraine. describing it as a “road ahead of mercurial doom of the trump regime ” .

concerns and themes throughout this film:

• female sexuality
• misinformation
• ecological crisis

personally the only way in which I can relate to this is how the male obsession of female sexuality undermines male sexuality in a way that certain men find threatening. growing up in a Turkish immigrant Society I’ve had many experiences where Turkish men and even boys have felt the need to show their authority when they felt the slightest bit threatened by my knowledge or the way I have dressed.

humans have been interacting with machines for many years almost all of us use them to make life easier one way or another and I believe that both can aid each other with real life issues such as some surgeries . the role of data can facilitate these interactions by providing more information to broaden the knowledge of Machines in particular meaning that bias, racism and so on within datasets and machines will hopefully no longer exist within the future. id love to imagine hover boards and flying cars a 100 years from now which definitely seems like a potential seen as though we have self automated cars.

down bellow Ive made a mind map of networks that I think could connect with bot of my projects :

when doing research for my projects I came across a virtual chatbot by accedo which provides a 3d conversational experience.

https://virtual.accedo.tv/

looking further into this project made me realise that I could do much more with crimebot. initially I wanted crimebot to be a 3d educational experience where the chat bot would appear on screen as a detective (the user can customise the gender of the detective, the voice…..) that would be helping you to solve the chosen case, the landscape would also be a 360 degree model of the crime scene which you could move about. potentially in the future this could be executed through virtual reality where the user is able to walk through the crime scene and so on.

how is real data used for “feeding” virtual lives?

^^^^ I still don’t quite understand this question however I have found a paper that explained it in further detail. and in terms of my projects I guess the way in which users will be asking questions and so on to solve a case could be collected to change certain aspects of the crimebot VR world.

https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/20513/CS-TR-5058.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Create a monologue for one of your projects or a dialogue between you and your work-in-progress.
(the monologue/dialogue should not take longer than 5 minutes)

the gift bot specifically will communicate with a network of other bots which will help provide the best possible gift options. for example ‘honey’ which is a web extension that you can download to your pc to help find discounted prices. both of the bots I am currently working on will be based on the internet in website form. which means that the services are easily shared via a link. I guess my project relates back to some what of a social media network as the gift bot will be working with other bots to find the desired outcome and the crime chat bot will be using automated conversations with the user to find a certain outcome.

for my final project I have chose to go with bots :

when I presented the economy bot idea my peers felt that it wasn’t creative enough even though it was a great idea they where worried that I wouldn’t want to proceed or focus on it due to me not having much interest within the topic.

final ideas:

idea one : crimebot is a educational fun interactive chatbot/website that helps you learn and solve true crime cases:

idea two: giftbot is a gift generator for everyone just type in your friends atributes/ favourite items and it generates the perfect gift for whom ever.

this week in lesson we looked into the first bot created ELIZA. we downloaded her data and coded ELIZA to have a different personality as the attributes she was made with could very offensive to women as she was a vey submissive and attentive as many chatbots are with a female gender.

http://nl.ijs.si/frenk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ss22-presentation-erjavec.pdf

I didn’t get to finish the code but I did end up changing some of her responses and made her seem like she was taking back her power in a very rude nature .

down below you can see some of the responses I changed:

I don’t think I interact with bots on a day to day basis but I could be completely wrong as there are bots that interact with us without us knowing. the last bot I remember interacting with was to sort out my phone plan by voxi .

considering that more then half of the internet traffic is made up of bots means that bots are used in many cases such as data bots scanning specific data types for certain information and many more.

MEMES

1. How do you describe the data that composes your dataset? Make sure you cover both the details on the medium and the social, cultural, geographical and political context from which this data is being extracted.

in the lesson following this task I realised that the data set theme I chose was very broad which makes it harder to answer the questions. so to answer the questions I decided to make it very specific ” SpongeBob related memes used in the uk”. memes in general are used as conversation starters and even help many people connect within some internet communities. many argue that some memes can be very harmful towards certain cultures as all memes have a creator that released the photo to a certain audience. however, as the internet gets hold onto the meme many people can use it in the wrong context especially with harmful intent. this is why when choosing SpongeBob related memes specifically I made sure that it doesn’t effect or slander anyone but is inclusive for everyone.

geographically this data will be extracted from the uk.

I guess all memes are used in political cases to mock or praise laws and law makers and so forth but I don’t think sponge bob related memes are specifically used in this context and if they are I am completely unaware as I can’t find anything online.

https://medium.com/@V.E.M.E/the-relationship-between-memes-and-social-change-dbf168520eb

2. How big do you think your dataset can grow? And how long will it take until you think it is complete? How can it be maintained in the future?

I think that this data set can grow immensely as there are multiple SpongeBob episodes in which these memes can be found and made.

to complete it may take anywhere up to 6 months- 1 year and even after it is complete there will be many new memes that will be added everyday.

3.In which ways can it be visualised, heard or ‘made sensible’? (this question will be explored later as well if you choose to further this project)

I was thinking of having a map of the uk and in different areas it would change colour depending on how often the memes get used, and when the user clicks on an area it will zoom into the memes that have been used. for example something like this :