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Anti-teenager sound weapon in Wales

By Dan Lockton ⋅ November 30, 2005 ⋅ 19 comments

Boing Boing and MAKE note a New York Times story about the Mosquito, a speaker unit produced by Compound Security which produces a high frequency sound (less audible to older people) in order to drive away teenagers hanging around in front of shops.

Self-enforcing speed limits, and control through deterioration

By Dan Lockton ⋅ November 29, 2005 ⋅ 3 comments

Interesting discussion at the SABRE roads forum on self-enforcing speed limits in the UK—current regulations mean that if a 20 mph zone can be created through a ’self-enforcing’ architecture of control (i.e. traffic calming) then it doesn’t legally need any signs to remind drivers, other than at the entrance to the zone.

Motor insurance ‘black boxes’

By Dan Lockton ⋅ November 28, 2005 ⋅ 5 comments

Last month, Norwich Union (one of the UK’s largest insurers) opened up its ‘black box’-based car insurance policy (see here) to a wider range of drivers, with a lot of publicity.

Welcome : About this site

By Dan Lockton ⋅ November 16, 2005 ⋅ 16 comments

Increasingly, many products are being designed with features that intentionally restrict the way the user can behave, or enforce certain modes of behaviour. The same intentions are also evident in the design of many systems and environments.
This site aims—with readers’ input—to examine and analyse the ideas and techniques of these architectures of control [...]