icists kaist keynote speech
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Presentation at ICISTS KAIST 2011 in South Korea.TRANSCRIPT
Cyborg Anthropology and the Future of the Interface A Short Introduction
Amber Case ICISTS-KAIST’11Contact: [email protected]
we are all cyborgs
an organism “to which exogenous components have been added for the purpose of adapting to new ambient spaces”
1. cyborg:
Flickr: cybertoad
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/119/293670483_cbce23bdde_b.jpg
Flickr: soylentgreen23
Flickr: cybertoad
^ Univac 1 - 1950’s
iPhone - 2000’s >
traditional anthropology
cyborg anthropologyFlickr: futurestreet
macy meetings - anthropologists and scientists discussing humans and technology in 1941.
cyborg anthropology launched as a sub-discipline of anthropology at AAA in 1992
I. Present DayII. Growing up CyborgIII. The Future
I. Present Day
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HyperlinkedMemories
persistentpaleontology
the automaticproductionof space
simultaneous time
self reflection
Junksleep
devicesand their discontents
Prostheticsand their discontents
Privacy in PublicSpaces
Flickr: GenoDM
Temporarily Negotiated Private Space
Time and SpaceCompression
Shrinking Map of the World by David Harvey, 1989
shortest distancebetween 2 points
technosocialwormholes
ambient intimacy Leisa Reichelt
Flickr: piet_musterd
psychologicaleffects
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II. Growing up Cyborg
Infants have a virtual self before they are even born.
this is yoursecond self
Maintenanceof the second self
presentation of self in digital life
Second selves become actual selves
Socialgrooming
Level Ups
+1 Friend+1 Follower
psychologicaleffects
+1
slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2@padday UX at Google
technosocialtrainingwheels
Flickr: piet_musterd
Work and Play
Reality isn’t always fun
Reality isn’t always fast
Reality is +5 points!
Reality is 5 stars!
Accelerated Rewards
Work is just badly designed game play.
– Patrick Meyer
Analog backyard
Digital backyard
Bullying doesn’t end when school is over.
Kids are training for their future world
A community that increasingly transcends time and space.
So what’s next?
III. The Future
The Internet is not a machine
Calm Technology
• Calm technology • Actions as buttons• Invisible interfaces
Interface Evaporation
Your cell phone should become a remote control for reality.
Proximal Notification
GeonotesLeave messages for your future self!
Reducing Actions
When you check in to your house, your lights turn on!
When you leave the house, your lights turn off!
The best technologyis invisible
It should get out of the way and connect people.
The most important part of technology is the interface.
Today the most important thing is design.
Design is reducing the time and space between need and satisfaction.
