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Notes 11.14

Key Point of our ideas - underpinning them (assumptions)

• "Companionship" doesn't have to be social
• "Companionship" doesn't have to be with people
• (Artificial,Real),(Shallow,Deep),(Extrinsic,Intrinsic)
  • 3 dimensional grid; We are focused on real,deep,intrinsic quadrant.

Arguments for & against

1. Singing plants
   1. For
      1. Already personified plants, so enhancing that personality will give them in-house social network
      2. Natural relationship with artificial mediator
      3. Helps with care of the plants
   2. Against
      1. Could promote isolation
      2. Feels a little bit silly (may be stretch)/ may become annoying
      3. Strange for visitors
2. Interest Matching - finding people with similar interestes
   1. For
      1. Facilitates interaction with people
      2. Keeps people busy
   2. Against
      1. No clear artificial element to this companionship
      2. Socialization versus companionship (really attacking problem?)
3. Gardening Tools
   1. For
      1. Make gardening easier than was able to do it before - deepening existing hobby
      2. Something to do everyday (keeping busy)
      3. Something to take care of
   2. Against
      1. Can't do it in winter-time, when people depressed (unless on smaller scale)
      2. Not clearly social
4. In-situ picture album
   1. For
      1. Helps build relationship with place that people live (base to connect with)
      2. Create a story about places (compare present,past)
      3. Helps with organization of photo/video collections that people amass
   2. Against
      1. Not implementable for this senior generation
5. Augmenting home
   1. For
   2. Against
6. Personalized encyclopedia of life history
   1. For
      1. Interesting to learn about information (good resource)
      2. Compiling a personal history
      3. Addresses mobility issue
      4. Acts as bridge between two people of different generations
   2. Against
      1. Not much content per person
      2. If it is highly personalized, difficult to assemble content
7. City Planning/Architecture
   1. For
   2. Against
8. Home Recorder - Moving away from family home
   1. For
      1. Facilitates transition from family home to new place - allows relationship to continue after move (artificially)
      2. Retain memories from earlier days as memory starts to fail you
   2. Against
      1. Difficult to do
      2. Is this serving a social well-being need or a nostalgic need? Are these to commensurate?
9. Augmenting town - historical data integration
   1. For
      1. Helps build relationship with town
      2. Allows one to associate a town's historical character with it's actual physical layout (including landmarks)
      3. Allows user to control relationship with town by exploring what is important to them
   2. Against
      1. Doesn't address mobility issue
10. Auto-catalog happy events (accessing companion happiness even with people not around)
    1. For
       1. Allows access to relationships when others aren't around
       2. Automatically record stuff when people are happy
    2. Against
       1. May make people sadder who don't have happy events often enough
11. Interactive calendar
    1. For
       1. Allows for "artificial" relationship with celebrity you idolize
       2. Serves practical feature
       3. One way relationship in which nothing is required of you (no moral obligation for relatioship to succeed)
    2. Against
       1. Very much like stalking
       2. Shallow companionship
12. Virtual Pen-Pals
    1. For
       1. Seniors might like having relationship even if with unreal people
       2. Leverages activity that is still very much done amongst seniors
    2. Against
       1. Still kind of like stalking