Two-way Mirror Research Articles

Discover Life: Self-Fabricated Smart Mirror using Microprocessor and OpenCV

Nowadays, people are trying hard to live more efficiently and productively by saving more time for daily activities. Mirrors and smartphones are the equipment that we usually use for our daily life. People usually prepare themselves in front of the mirror and at the same time check their phones for updated news, weather forecasts, and schedules, to plan their daily routine, but doing both activities at the same time might cause huge distractions, resulting in more time consumption. The main objective of this project is to develop a Smart Mirror that can provide information and also able to unlock the profile with a face recognition system through a camera. Raspberry Pi is the processor of the Smart Mirror, Python was used to create the connection platform in OpenCV. IR Frame was added to develop the touch function of the mirror. The role of a two-way mirror is to provide transparency for the LCD panel allowing light to pass through the mirror and at the same time as a normal mirror from the other side. The result has proven that time can be saved up from 100-300 % with the help of Smart Mirror. The detection range of the face recognition is within 3 meters with 92 % of accuracy.

Machine Learning Based Implementation of Home Automation Using Smart Mirror

When ordered, it may be folded in half quickly and effortlessly. IoT (Internet of Things) technology drives the Smart Mirror's functionality. Standard mirror functionality is included, in addition to showing the user's social notifications, daily tasks, weather updates, breaking news, reminders, voice assistant notifications, and smartphone notifications. The Smart Mirror is connected to the Raspberry Pi-based network through Wi-Fi. A two-way mirror or an acrylic mirror sheet is used with the Raspberry-Pi mainboard to conceal the Mirror's rear end from the user. It supports modules written in any programming language. When Python is used as the primary programming language, these changes take care of the hardware and software limitations. This work discusses the creation and building of the Mirror in appropriate manner. In addition, possible uses of the Mirror are discussed. Compared to this DIY method, the cost is substantially lower, and the result is more predictable. The result produced by the support vector machine classifier are of accuracy which is 84% for detecting theft, and the confusion matrix is often diagonal, showing that this classifier can accurately labelled the data. Similarly, F1 score of 0.82% shows that there are a few false positives and false negatives, which is a favorable indicator.

The use of social media as a two-way mirror for narcissistic adolescents from Austria, Belgium, South-Korea, and Spain.

The use of social networking sites (SNS or social media) often comes with strong self-centered behaviors to promote self-appearance. The relationship between narcissism and social media use has intensively occupied scholars in the last decade, yet not much research has focused on, first, how the intensity of social media use (SNS use) is associated with narcissism through a self-centered appearance focused use of these SNS; and second, whether these associations are moderated or not by cultural differences of the country of origin in such a critical age of personality formation and (global) culturalization as the transition from pre-adolescence to adolescence. We performed a correlation and mediation analysis on a cross-sectional survey among Austrian, Belgian, Spanish, and South Korean adolescents (n = 1,983; Mage 14.41, 50.3% boys) examining the adolescents' daily usage of social media, their self-centered appearance focused behavior, and the reported narcissism. Findings show that a self-centered appearance focused use of SNS (SCA) moderates the association between SNS use and narcissism, especially for males from the three European countries. We have also particularly found that the years of use, number of friends and time spent in FB are associated with narcissism. Since SCA is defined in the study as narcissistic behavior in SNS, we argue that social media are part of the socialization process as both reinforcers and catalyzers of narcissism.

Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson

Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Fiona Sampson

Smart Mirror Using Raspberry PI: A Review

A Smart mirror is a mirror with technology integrated with it. It uses a two-way mirror and has an inbuilt display at the back showing us different information in the form of widgets about the date, time, temperature, daily news updates. The Raspberry Pi acts as the central controller, which powers the display and collects data through sensors. The data collected is stored on cloud servers for further use. The mirror comes with facial recognition technology, which helps authenticate the user every time the user comes in the mirror range. With the help of voice commands, the mirror application can be queried to get the desired data. This automation has helped in multitasking which strives to optimize time in our daily life. In this manuscript we will review different applications of smart mirror.

Smart information desk system with voice assistant for universities

This article aims to develop a smart information desk system through a smart mirror for universities. It is a mirror with extra capabilities of displaying answers for academic inquiries such as asking about the lecturers’ office numbers and hours, exams dates and times on the mirror surface. In addition, the voice recognition feature was used to answer spoken inquiries in audio responds to serve all types of users including disabled ones. Furthermore, the system showed general information such as date, weather, time and the university map. The smart mirror was connected to an outdoor camera to monitor the traffics at the university entrance gate. The system was implemented on a Raspberry Pi 4 model B connected to a two-way mirror and an infrared (IR) touch frame. The results of this study helped to overcome the problem of the information desk absence in the university. Therefore, it helped users to save their time and effort in making requests for important academic information.

MAGIC MIRROR

The Smart Mirror concept depicts the concept of a smart gadget. S smart mirror is primarily intended for use in the homes. Because of high price and hardware constraints, smart mirrors really aren't commonly used. The planned smart mirror would be controlled by a Raspberry Pi & connects to the outside world via the internet. Raspberry Pi, LED display, speakers, microphones, two-way mirror, & acrylic glass would make up the smart mirror. The mirror can connect with both the user via voice commands & reply accordingly using speech recognition API. The Smart mirror can display basic information such as the date, news channel, and climate. Smart Mirror would be able to do various advanced functions, including such Smart Home. The client will have an amazing experience with such an artificially intelligent mirror.

I see you but you don’t see me: the “two-way mirror effect” of gender and disability in employment

Purpose This paper aims to contribute to prior gender-based conceptual models within organisational and management studies by incorporating an additional lens of disability. The authors present a context specific and embodied based model that we call the “two-way mirror effect” which accounts for the environmental and discursive effects of gender and disability within the workplace. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews existing literature on gender, disability and employment and uses that literature to construct and support the concept of a two-way mirror effect. Findings By drawing on organisation and management-based studies, the authors have shown how previous models do not currently account for the experiences of disabled women within the workplace. Disabled workers, and especially disabled women face a myriad of unique barriers, including masculine and able-bodied employment practices (e.g. performative expectations) and exclusionary physical spaces (e.g. access, location to required facilities), that exclude them from full employment participation. Practical implications The review of existing literature and conceptual models reveal the gaps in research that academics and practitioners can build upon and the paper identifies the dominant norms that are embedded within organisational practices, which can be challenged to promote inclusion and equality. Originality/value The authors present a new intersectional-based conceptual model to fill a gap in organisational and management-based studies that accounts for the unique employment experiences of disabled employees, specifically disabled women.

Two-way Mirrors: Dancing in the Zoomosphere

Dan Graham's work with mirrors and installation from the 1970s provides an unexpected launchpad for understanding the structures underlying perception in Zoom interfaces. The article explores the intricacies of Graham's two-way mirrors as a means to articulate perceptual experiences of dancing in the Zoomosphere, with examples from teaching, choreographing and performing via Zoom during Covid 19 isolation conditions.

REFLECTO – A SMART MIRROR STRUCTURE WITH A CONTEXTUAL ASSOCIATION OF INTERNET OF THINGS

Two of the most valued qualities in the modern-day society are punctuality and presentation. The mission helps to develop the above-mentioned personalities. We have developed an artificial intelligence-based smart mirror that helps in reminding the user about their day to day schedule while they spend their time in front of the mirror. This way the user is ensured of comfort in accessing the basic services with a minimum hinderance. The basic function that our prototype is assumed to carry out is to display user their personalised information like date, time, weather forecast, upcoming holidays or saved events and news bulletin. Face recognition feature is also added in order to identify the user using the camera placed behind the mirror. Because of the face recognition feature the mirror will be able to display personalised data that the identified user wants to know. Reflecto can be easily built by using a two-way mirror, concealed LED screen, microphone and camera to make it interactive. The mirror’s functionalities have been extended by integrating it with Google assistant to access IoT devices that have been enabled with home automation.

DIAGNOSIS OF CHILDREN WITH SANFILIPPO DISEASE – PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND MOTOR ASSESSMENT

Sanfilippo disease (mucopolysaccharidosis, MPS IIIA) is one of the types of mucopolysaccharidosis associated with extensive neurological effects and somatic symptoms. The consequences of neurodegeneration and cognitive impairment are manifested in challenges with the daily functioning of patients who experience problems with communication and following instructions. The aim of this study was to assess the cognitive functioning of three patients with MPS IIIA and to find patterns of neurodegeneration and to make their environment more friendly. Three boys (from 5.5 to 7 years) with MPS IIIA participated in the study. Each participant attended two meetings, and his functioning was assessed by three independent person (using two-way mirror). We used Bayley’s Scale III with some modifications. Interviews with parents were also included. The communication of patients was limited to some vocalizations. Patients presented instrumental use of items, but not all of them were able to repeat actions after diagnostician or presented object permanence. The results showed that the cognitive functioning of participants was significantly hindered by problems related to motor dysfunction, hyperactivity, and ataxia. The psychological data was collated with medical results. This study allows indicating new sources giving the possibility of child phenotype variability and to create specific interventions in the field of psychological therapy for patients with MPS IIIA and their families.

Voice Assistant and Security based Smart Mirror

Now-a-days the internet has become more common in our lives. It can connect us more easily to information and other people in a virtual world. Mobile phones turned into smart phones and since then this concept has erupted and morphed into Internet of Things (IOT). IOT is a network of objects or things that are embedded and enables the objects to collect and exchange data. So the objects can become even smarter day-by-day. For example, mirrors provide a large surface to display information and to interact with. Everyone have mirrors at homes, schools, offices etc., thus the concept of smart mirror can be attractive and also been fantasized in futuristic movies. A smart two-way mirror is a science fiction and a part of optimistic vision of future and imagines a world which has screens and data that are available everywhere, ready to provide whatever information is needed at any moment. The main purpose of the system is to use it as a hands free product with an electronic display. When voice or camera is enabled, the smart mirror is used to view different kinds of information such as weather, time, date and news feed automatically. Voice assistant system is used to enable Google search engine, Google calendar and notifications based on user’s commands. Camera controlled system is used as a security surveillance camera. So, the voice assistant along with camera is integrated to the two-way mirror converts the functionality of normal mirror into an Interactive Smart Mirror.

Construction of professional identity in nursing students: qualitative research from the historical-cultural perspective.

Objective:to analyze the process of professional identity construction in undergraduate nursing students during their education.Method:qualitative research, anchored in the Historical-Cultural framework. Twenty-three undergraduate nursing students took part. Data were collected through individual interviews, with a semi-structured script. Thematic Analysis was used to analyze the data.Results:the following four themes were obtained, “The subject in movement to become a nurse: from previous experiences to entering the courses”; “The nursing professor in the construction of the undergraduate’s professional identity: a two-way mirror”; “Pedagogical relationship: instrument for constructing the student’s professional identity” and “Historical-cultural conditions: space for the construction of the student’s professional identity”.Conclusion:the construction of the students’ professional identity is limited to the material conditions of existence, translating appropriation to the intrapsychic scope of elements that occur, first, in the inter-psychological space of interactions. Nursing professors can become a paradoxical mirror, with one face to be imitated and the other, which materializes meanings of a model not to be followed. This construction is also influenced by the conditions of professional practice and university education.

Cinema as Prosthesis: Errol Morris’s Use of the Interrotron in <em>Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.</em>

Cinema as Prosthesis: Errol Morris’s Use of the Interrotron in <em>Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.</em>

Animals that Live in the Mirror: On Colonial Bestiaries and Interspecies Architecture

In 1934 Berthold Lubetkin unveiled a new development designed for a peculiar client and located in a curious place. Lubetkin’s “The Penguin Pool” was the second building that he had built in as many years for the London Zoo and it was meant to house the zoo’s newest acquisition of Antarctic penguins. The Penguin Pool was well received amongst architectural critics and the popular press alike and, as a relatively small concrete oval sunk into the ground with two elevated paths extending from the walls (Fig. 1), it represented a particular modernist ideal of visuality. At the same time though, what’s good for viewing subjects may not necessarily be good for the subjects themselves. And what’s good for people may not necessarily be good for penguins. The pool, designed for the eyes of the human spectator, resulted in a lengthy and list of problems for the penguins. Even that most modernist choice of materials – the decision to form the entire living area out of concrete – proved harmful as many of the penguins developed aching joints from having to walk on the hard surface.In taking this architectural episode as one that is emblematic of the broader role of the animal in modern architecture, this article explores the curious relationship between animal, human and environment. Specifically, it argues that the construction choices of Lubetkin’s pool make visible a common theme that extends across all of modern architecture: a willful ignorance of, or a concerted effort to control, biological life. Through an analysis of three related objects: the Penguin Pool, an archive of Le Corbusier’s sketches of animals, writings about his experiences in Algeria and hybridized creatures, and the artist Dan Graham’s installations, My Two-Way Mirror Pavilions, this work draws together these attempts to control biological life with colonial discourses on the animality of the colonial subject and on Neo-Darwinist ideas of natural hierarchy. By exploring these discourses as they are related to an imagined incommensurability and stratification of species, this article highlight the discursive constructs that work against shared, communal, and engaging multi species environments. And against these discursive forces, this work closes with a rereading of both interspecies communication and evolutionary agency by pushing against arguments of interspecies incommensurability and focusing on instead on a call to reconsider the environment as a totality of shared, interspecies, experiences.

Animals that Live in the Mirror: On Colonial Bestiaries and Interspecies Architecture

In 1934 Berthold Lubetkin unveiled a new development designed for a peculiar client and located in a curious place. Lubetkin’s “The Penguin Pool” was the second building that he had built in as many years for the London Zoo and it was meant to house the zoo’s newest acquisition of Antarctic penguins. The Penguin Pool was well received amongst architectural critics and the popular press alike and, as a relatively small concrete oval sunk into the ground with two elevated paths extending from the walls (Fig. 1), it represented a particular modernist ideal of visuality. At the same time though, what’s good for viewing subjects may not necessarily be good for the subjects themselves. And what’s good for people may not necessarily be good for penguins. The pool, designed for the eyes of the human spectator, resulted in a lengthy and list of problems for the penguins. Even that most modernist choice of materials – the decision to form the entire living area out of concrete – proved harmful as many of the penguins developed aching joints from having to walk on the hard surface. In taking this architectural episode as one that is emblematic of the broader role of the animal in modern architecture, this article explores the curious relationship between animal, human and environment. Specifically, it argues that the construction choices of Lubetkin’s pool make visible a common theme that extends across all of modern architecture: a willful ignorance of, or a concerted effort to control, biological life. Through an analysis of three related objects: the Penguin Pool, an archive of Le Corbusier’s sketches of animals, writings about his experiences in Algeria and hybridized creatures, and the artist Dan Graham’s installations, My Two-Way Mirror Pavilions, this work draws together these attempts to control biological life with colonial discourses on the animality of the colonial subject and on Neo-Darwinist ideas of natural hierarchy. By exploring these discourses as they are related to an imagined incommensurability and stratification of species, this article highlight the discursive constructs that work against shared, communal, and engaging multi species environments. And against these discursive forces, this work closes with a rereading of both interspecies communication and evolutionary agency by pushing against arguments of interspecies incommensurability and focusing on instead on a call to reconsider the environment as a totality of shared, interspecies, experiences.

Development, research and metrological analysis of the measuring channel of a fiber-optic sensor for fluid flow parameters used in information-measuring systems

The article proposes a device for measuring parameters of liquid flows (volume and velocity) (FOSLFP). A physico-mathematical model of optical signal conversion in a fiber-optic flux transducer of the proposed sensor is developed, in which the perceiving element is a truncated cylinder mounted on the inner surface of the bellows, experiencing angular bending during measurements. The conversion of optical signals is carried out using a two-way mirror plate mounted on the outer surface of the bellows in an open fiber optical channel. A circuit-analytical model of a new variant of a differential circuit for converting optical signals to a FOSLFP was developed, in accordance with which a metrological model of the sensor was developed to determine the possible sources of measurement errors. The nominal and real functions of the FOSLFP transformation were derived, the additive and multiplicative components of the errors of the two measuring channels of the sensor and the ways to reduce them were determined.

Review: Basim Magdy: The Stars Were Aligned for a Century of New Beginnings

What pervades Basim Magdy's artistic practice and his first United States survey exhibition on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA) is an exploration of time, space, and the universe that addresses humanity's collective failures and arguably imprudent aspirations. Magdy engages each of these broad themes through a nuanced use of language and a carefully constructed approach to layering and manipulating materials. As a result, his works allow for seemingly infinite possibilities of interpretation, much like the conceptions of utopia and science fiction that piqued his interest as a child. Magdy's use of bright colors and pop art sensibility are realized through his representation of images of mass media popular culture including cars, structures, spaceships, and other technologies. These images, when paired with their pessimistic titles, demonstrate one of the ways in which Magdy critiques humanity's simultaneous obsession with progress and avoidance in resolving or making sense of its own history. Titles such as Time Laughs Back at You Like a Sunken Ship and Every Decade Memory Poses as a Container Heavier than its Carrier exemplify Magdy's poetic and humorous approach to complicating narratives for viewers. Basim Magdy: The Stars Were Aligned for a Century of New Beginnings was curated by MCA Manilow Senior Curator Omar Kholeif. The exhibition features Magdy's work in several media, including paper with gouache, acrylic, spray paint, and collage, as well as photographs, installations, videos, and slides captured from Kodak carousel projectors. Unlike a traditional chronological survey, this exhibition features a significant display of twenty-three of Magdy's works on paper set salon-style in the center of a small portion of a bright pink wall, the titles of which can be read from a corresponding wall label that is placed at the lower left. Next to this arrangement is an installation entitled The Future of Your Head (2008), comprised of a standing two-way mirror sign with an illuminated text displayed in capital letters that reads: YOUR HEAD IS A SPARE PART IN OUR FACTORY OF PERFECTION. At the center of this first central gallery space is a low pedestal with copies of two different posters accumulated in piles; a small written text on the floor prompts viewers to leave the exhibition with one poster of their choice. While at first glance the two poster images appear nearly identical, the text is what separates the work and provides a choice for the participant. In each poster a man stands on top of a car, his arm outstretched holding a pole, at the top of which appears a mannequin hand continuing the diagonal extension of the body. Both posters read KNOWING HE COULD DIE THE NEXT DAY, A MAN DESPERATELY TRIES TO TICKLE but one adds BUT HEAVEN DOESN'T LAUGH. INSTEAD, FROGS START FALLING FROM THE SKY. This work, much like the exhibition as a whole, encourages viewers to look carefully and consider Magdy's constructed fictions in part as social commentary. …

Medicaid Politics and Policy

Medicaid Politics and Policy

Raised On YouTube: Cultural Data Materialization Using Plants

Raised on YouTube is an installation and game that grows plants using only the light of projected video and makes ecology legible as a multiplayer game. The challenge of finding the most nurturing video is crowdsourced online. As players watch a webcam feed of the plants surrounded by two-way mirrors, their computer power is diverted to photosynthetic video analysis. The system calculates the photosynthetic score for each video using a basic botanical model. The resulting shape and density of the plant grow bed serves as a data visualization of the energy patterns in the cultural stream. The system provides opportunities to reflect on the effects of long-term exposure to contemporary media and to imagine ecological possibilities of participatory culture.