Our Friends Electric
Emerging technologies-such as the voice enabled internet-present many opportunities and challenges for research and society as a whole. Advocating for better, healthier implementations of these technologies will require us to communicate abstract values, such as trust, to an audience that ranges from the general public to technologists to policymakers. In this research, we use a combination product design and film-making to explore these abstract values. Working as part of a wider international advocacy campaign, Our Friends Electric focuses on the voice enabled internet, translating abstract notions of Internet Health into comprehensible digital futures for the relationship between our voice and the internet. This work was in collaboration with Superflux and was funded by the Mozilla Foundation.
Keywords
Human Computer Interaction, Voice enabled Internet, Internet health, tangible computing, IoT, Design
Staff
[Loraine Clarke]{lec24}