Consentful Interface
Description
Adding a Consentful Interface to my Experimental Camera
Consent is an essential and basic human right.
Based on our discussions and learnings in class "Gaining access to the user’s webcam is a sensitive topic and should be dealt with care,
because capturing is a form of seeing, and seeing can either empower or disempower the user in front of the webcam
(e.g. CCTV cameras hidden throughout the city and gather pedestrian's data is a bold example that invades privacy and violates consent)".
I have added buttons in the interface, to be used by the user for turning the camera On and Off. A welcome message guides the
user through the functionality of the camera, while also giving them complete information of how their image will be used once they
choose to turn the camera on. I have also provided a slider for the user to increase or decrease the fidelity of the camera capture
if they prefer to have more privacy while using the camera.
Combined, these feature comply with the FRIES model for Consent as outline by Una Lee and Dann Toliver in their publication
Consentful Tech Zine
Design Process
My main objective for this assignment was to ensure that the FRIES model for consent is being adopted for complete safety and protecting the rights of the user. One of my main struggles for this assignment was to ensure that the camera light goes on and off on switching the camera, shutting the camera completely, instead of only the render of the capture disappearing. Please find the consent flowchart below, depicting how my camera applies the FRIES consent:
Reflection
This assignment was a great exercise for me to understand DOM elements and how they reside in the HTML files. It helped me understand the functional connection between the co-existing HTML, CSS and javascript files. I also grasped how our p5 canvas is a singular element in the HTML file, which forms the basis of a webpage.
Credits
Katherine and Xin's lecture on 'Consent' and Sean's lab class on DOM elements helped me work on this assignment.