What happens when digital devices listen to us? This video was used as a way to explain a potentially pivotal shift in our relationship with technology by Dr. Genevieve Bell is an Australian-born anthropologist and researcher at UX Week 2012. What would it mean for digital services to be able to relate to us?
Key to the Street is a service that gets to know you better over time in order to serve you with highly personalised recommendations. So maybe your personal assistant isn't a person or even human, but an app on your mobile that helps you in all aspects of your niche lifestyle. The idea seems like a good one, but the question we're trying to understand is, what personal services are most important to most people?
What if we were able to recast or re-imagine the role of mobile devices? Is this what apps are really about? Challenging the use of a device formally known to connect us to other people to a device we use to organise our lives? Shifting our perception of devices as extensions of our self. This is what Amber Case talks about when she suggests we're all becoming cyborgs.
