BigFoot
Parsa Ghaffari & Kevin Koidl (IE)
How Big is Your Digital Footprint?, 2015
The BigFoot project seeks to answer the question 'How big is your digital footprint?' by illustrating, educating and ultimately increasing awareness in the usage of passive lifelogging technologies such as social media. This project builds on the hypothesis that most social media users are unaware about how ‘big’ their digital footprint is, what it exposes and what impact it might have on themselves and society as whole.
About Parsa and Kevin
Parsa Ghaffari is an entrepreneur and engineer interested in AI and more specifically enabling machines to understand human languages better. He is currently the CEO of a Dublin based startup called Aylien, which is focused on providing text analysis and natural language processing services and products to businesses.
Kevin Koidl is a Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin’s Department of Computer Science and the ADAPT research centre. Kevin's professional focus is on web innovation, and leadership and strategy. His specific areas of interest are research commercialisation, AI, next generation web personalisation, language-related innovation (NLP, MT, Open Linked Data, Semantic Web) and education technology. Kevin has two startups in the web space, wripl.com and Kaffeehouse.com.
BigFoot was created with the help of:
Tewson Seeoun (TCD), a software developer specialised in web applications. He has a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin.
Dr. David Delany (WIT) who holds a PhD in Computational Neuroscience (TCD) and has a research focus on the design of novel clinical brain training interventions for psychiatric disorders and cognitive enhancement.
Aonghus McGovern (TCD/ADAPT) is a PhD candidate in the area of user modelling for personaliSed web services.
Jurrian Hartwigsen (WIT exchange student), a design specialist
Angie Lee (Publicis Dublin), a Social Media Specialist.