Yo-Yo Machines are playful communicators you can easily build yourself to keep in touch with friends and family. From the website Made by a team of designers and technologists at Goldsmiths, University of London, the concept of having connected devices that can connect people on a distance can easily been seen as a IoT-archetype. There […]
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Design Nonfiction
The project by Tellart consists of super valuable insights through interviews with designers and academics from all over the world.“Transformations in design practice between the Dotcom Crash and the rise of machine intelligence”Many interviews are online and more will follow through the rest of 2020. Designnonfiction.org
IoT Privacy Portal
Publicize IoT resources and the data they collect. Carnegy Mellon University developed an IoT Assistant app that provides users with a single interface through which they can discover IoT resources around them and access privacy options made available to them by these resources.https://www.iotprivacy.io
Databrick
This sounds interesting: “Whether you own or rent, Databrick helps you learn from the former occupants and green your home even after you exchange keys. It combines different levels of data, secured cloud service, and local data storage in your home (a smart meter or a broadband router).”
Moving to a more-than-human design practise
Twice speaker at ThingsCon Elisa Giaccardi published an article together with Johan Redstrom on Technology and more than human design: “we need to conceptually equip our design theory and methodologies for new alignments, move past the blind spots of human- centered design, and address the expanding universe of algorithms, forms of intelligence, and forms of life […]
New studio from Simone Rebaudengo
Simone Rebaudengo, another ThingsCon alumni, launched a new type of studio at Interaction20: “we research new scenarios and imaginary products — writing stories, building artifacts and immersive experiences, testing new ways to make the future more tangible and less dark.”https://oio.studio/
Dutch court stops use of automated surveillance by welfare authorities
A Dutch court has ordered the immediate halt of an automated surveillance system for detecting welfare fraud because it violates human rights, in a judgment likely to resonate well beyond the Netherlands.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/05/welfare-surveillance-system-violates-human-rights-dutch-court-rules
The EU is considering a 5 year ban on facial recognition in public spaces
The European Union is considering banning facial recognition technology in public areas for up to five years, to give it time to work out how to prevent abuses, according to proposals seen by Reuters.https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-ai/eu-mulls-five-year-ban-on-facial-recognition-tech-in-public-areas-idUSKBN1ZF2QL
Final prototype of the Ethical Stack by Virt-EU released
We have had Virt-EU involved in ThingsCon in multiple occasions and we were happy to contribute to the process of making this Ethical Stack. The final prototype is ready, “a series of tools to support creators of new connected technology to reflect on the ethical and social impacts of their products.” Check it out here:https://www.virteuproject.eu/servicepackage/ethical-stack/