{"id":3728,"date":"2020-02-16T23:34:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T04:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/?p=3728"},"modified":"2020-02-16T23:37:10","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T04:37:10","slug":"dependencui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/2020\/02\/16\/dependencui\/","title":{"rendered":"DependenCUI\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In our homes, in our cars, and in our workplaces, everywhere we look conversational user interfaces (CUIs) are infiltrating our daily lives. CUIs have the ability to track patterns of behavior, detect changes in conversations, and reveal our innermost thoughts simply by looking into our eyes. And we can\u2019t get enough. As we barrel our way towards a future of dependency, we should start asking ourselves to what end. How far will we go? Will we rely on CUIs to assist us in all decision making and interaction? Will we allow this technology to help us at every turn, and if we do so, will we forget how to make sound decisions on our own?\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I ask these questions because I don\u2019t want to see this technology remove us from a place of authenticity. One where we forget ourselves in the process. Where we become more detached from our inner compass, our intuition. That feeling that allows us to react in realtime to people and to our surroundings. I don\u2019t want us to become numb to the world and miss out on all the things it\u2019s trying to teach us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a designer, I see my role as a gatekeeper. I have the opportunity to put the human pieces back into these technologies and set standards for how we interact with CUIs in the future. Hopefully, I\u2019ll get my chance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we barrel our way towards a future of dependency, we should start asking ourselves to what end. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":3729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-incidentals","entry-card--square"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/DependenCUI-01.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p86O3z-Y8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3732,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3728\/revisions\/3732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}