Questions on profiling
Satu Lavinen
One of my main interests is the profiling of the users. Profiling
interests me despite the theme’s technical triviality; most of
the software do profile us nowadays, and even if the little helper
in Word might be really a nuisance, the idea of profiling the users
according to given principles, be those principles whatever, is a
fascinating one. I’m interested in cheating and misuse of power,
because these acts, usually defined as morally questionable, could
possibly be used for the good of the narration, experience, and the
user. As long as the information systems that gather information of
us do have some kind of memory, also a possibility to these acts does
exist.
When it comes to memory, they affect on us humans differently according
to their order; the older ones sort of get blurred, whereas things
that happened just a while ago affect our mood more, and are remembered
more accurately. Thus, human memory has a time-based resolution of
its own. This is very different to a artificial memory if the latter
is not purposely built similar to a human one, which usually is not
the case.
And the principles then; how and what to profile, what is the background,
with which the user and his acts are compared . When the system understands
different acts, and recognizes them from each other, can it interpret
these acts in relationship to the other, past acts of the user. But
could it also be able to compare the acts in relationship to the very
situation in which the act is done, and to the other, possible acts?
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