Intention

Write about the big ideas behind your project? What are the goals? Why did you make it? What are your motivations?

My intention in this project is two-fold: (1) to make visible what IoT devices already know about us and (2) to provoke questions about what they could do with this knowledge when we are not around.

What’s hidden is often already visible on digital screens and in our physical environments. User interfaces display personal information like calendar events, private messages, and search results. In our homes, smart appliances adjust to different triggers and behaviors.

My goal is to make explicit how our devices could easily know us better than ourselves by consolidating information from different sources. This is exposed through conversation, where the emotional intelligence and communication ability that devices could have both humanizes them, alluding to a blurred line between human and artificial intelligence. 

Outcome

Detail what you created. What methods or techniques did you use? What tools and technologies were involved?

Tools: Dimension, Figma, After Effects

[1] Conversation design

I wrote a series of verbal conversations between IoT devices that take place when the owner leaves the house. In each scene, a conversation between different devices and appliances reveals what they know about the owner.

The scripts build upon each other, each conversation revealing more about what each device knows. The information they collect ranges from operational to emotional - from browsing history and calendar events to emotion detection and personality clues.