1.Betti Marenko & Phillip van Allen, Animistic design: how to reimagine digital interaction between the human and the humanWhich novel questions/solutions get prioritized? How do you find the most informed, appropriate unknown?There is an excellent podcast […]
Category: Now Now
Programming is Forgetting
Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker EthicThis was such an interesting talk/article. Programming is truly making something discrete out of the infinite unknowable universe. Authors of programs, usually unintentionally, insert their own ideas about the […]
Personal Power or Influenced by Power?
Struggles with the term “godlike” and a perception of power.
More Human Than Human
To see is to understand
Camouflaging Image Recognition
Camouflaging Facial Recognition
Egregious of Image Recognition
Image Recognition is growing stronger throughout the years but the egregious things that happen behind it is pretty terrifying. I want to touch on facial recognition and how databases of people’s faces are being compiled […]
A Guerrilla Movement of Dissident Technology
I’d like to shift the perspective for a moment onto the designers working on the defense from CUIs.
More than Human Participatory Design
Should we and can we attend the needs of nonhumans in participatory design?
ML Cultural Probe
Your mind will wander when you begin to consider the hopes and fears of AI and the potential that it is bringing to our culture.
Your CUI is Judging You
When thinking about Conversational User Interfaces, I went down this research rabbit hole of downloading “self help” apps with therapy bots. I had several conversations with a few of them and found, in the end, […]
Ways to build trustworthy relationships with your CUI
During my researches for our CUI studies this semester, I decided to work on one of the main reasons why people still avoid adopting AI in their company or in their everyday life, despite the […]
The Game within the Conversation
After learning about conversational user interfaces, I’ve been able to look back to my previous experiences and analyze the dislikes and discomforts I had with these interfaces.
AI That Feels
How can a CUI listen to us, affirm and share our feelings?
New Ideas for CUI
Become your own personal assistant.
How can a CUI help people express their vulnerability?
Exploring how CUI’s can help people express their vulnerability and connect on a deeper level.
Non-Designers Doing Design
The multifaceted idea that writing and design form the title of the technical communicator.
What the AR? AR the What!
Planning for an unknown outcome
Stuck in your design project? Look for a question you want to answer
Many times we feel stuck in a project like all our ideas aren’t just right, the pieces don’t fit and we don’t know what to do or where to go from there.