27th Annual Mersivity / Water-HCI Symposium December Edition: "Breaking Blue Barriers" with Peter Street Basin Master Plan
Creators
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Mann, Steve
(Contact person)
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Nishant Kumar
(Editor)1
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Vicol, Alexander
(Editor)
- Janzen, Ryan (Editor)2
- Bros, Daniel
- Sabbour, Nagham
- Aniolowski, Patryk
- Cooper, Shawn
- Spitkoski, Jason
- Seitz, Mitchell
- Tzanetakis, Despina
- Lee, Somin Mindy
- Monaragala, Kinkini
- Huang, Hao-Chih
- Cao, Yiwei
- Song, Jinghan
- Yu, Huiying
- Lv, Hao (Max)
- Gursesli, Mustafa Can
- Buruk, Oğuz (Oz)
- Hamari, Juho
- Kress, Bernard
- Rajagopalan, Bharath
- Masic, Stefan
- Shang, Bokai
- Song, Qiao
- Zhou, Yunchuan
- Hosseingholizadeh, Aydin
- Panchal, Shubham
- Wodu, Gesi
- Chen, Xiaoming
- Jeong, Rocklen
- Yang, Mo
- Xiao, Yawen
- Zeng, Richard
- Li, Wanhe
- Zanjanpour, Darya
- Khorram, Amin
- Ibrahim, Eya
- Tkachenko, Yaroslav
- Sher, Syed Ali
- Cheema, Iman
- Zaidi, Eraj
- Mehanathan, Nathes
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1.
University of Toronto
- 2. transpod
Description
Our December Mersivity-2025 Symposium follows on the success of our Summer-2025 Mersvity Symposium. We present under the theme "Breaking Blue Barriers" for technologies that connect us to each other and to our surroundings. Examples include Wearable AI, and XR = eXtended Reality. We build on the concepts introduced to the world by Mann and Wyckoff in 1991, 34 years ago, which date back even further to 1974, more than 50 years ago, with the invention of the Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine, which was the world's first spatial computer and the predecessor of the Metaverse. What we have learned from 51 years of cyborg technology is that we must establish not only the right to be a cyborg but also the right to be a non-cyborg, and this right comes to light in Breaking Blue, which also serves as a roadmap for technology in general. We need to turn away from portals and platforms, and instead provide universal access that each user can customize for their own idividual needs. For this, we present the Latrop (inverse portal) concept, along with Psyveillance = sensing + cyborg psychology.
What AI and data centres are doing to destroy our society, we need to reclaim, through reclaiming our connection to nature. Toronto is the biggest city on the Great Lakes, and should provide water access as our highest and best use-case for connecting to nature. But we face Blue Barriers blocking us from water access.
We identfied a hidden pool under an abandoned garbage dump as perhaps the best place for universal water access, so that persons with disabilities can access Lake Ontario. Accordingly we construct the Peter Street Basin Master Plan for this pool which is part of Lake Ontario. We have undertaken a multi-year volunteer cleanup effort to use this space for research, teaching, and outreach at the nexus of humans, water, and technology (what we previously named Waterhci 27 years ago in 1998). We propose "MoBase" as a base of operations for Mersivity, the nexus of humans, technology, and our environment.
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Additional details
Related works
- Cites
- Conference proceeding: 10.5281/zenodo.16973160 (DOI)
Dates
- Copyrighted
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2025-12-21
Software
- Repository URL
- https://gitlab.com/SteveMann/mersivity