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Notes 11.11

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• Future Interfaces: Social and Emotional by Rosalind Picard

Importance of Artificiality - Always on, never dies

Artificial Companionship with People

• Communication device
• Sidewalk hookup
• Interest matcher
• Video conference
• meetup
• Internet Chat

Is artificial companionship with people an oxymoron???

Design argument justification: Promote social well-being, not creepy, promote social-well being

Plants

• Plants that talk
• Does this make humans morally responsible for the plant (fear death)
• Plant database to identify species
• automated watering for immobile users

Gardening (enabling gardening)

• interest-matching
• helpful gardening tools

Places (relationship with your personal history through the lens of a place)

• PDA guides
• In Situ picture album
• Home enhancements/physical objects in home
• Interactive encyclopedia
• Companionship with memories
• Encyclopedia of places
• Civil engineering/architecture