Week 3.5 – Thesis Journal – Research Paper, Review, Mood Board
Mood Board:
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Research Paper:
This paper has been a revelation thus far because I was having issues finding resources that covered the interrelation of ethics when concerning the digital remnants of people who have passed away. The motivations and incentives of the moneyed interests are brought to the forefront here, and it is also serving to bring important aspect to mind that are new to me like the fact that typically a user’s data is owned buy the company after they pass away. This paper is opening my eyes to just how deep this set of issues actually runs, and I intend to reflect these considerations into my project as I move forward on this journey.
Dream Review:
“The collection of items provided for our review were refreshing, because they attempt to – and mostly succeed at making grieving a more manageable, and accessible process for our test users (and anyone in the target audience).
We were provided with a basic mobile app that allows for a type of “Re-creation Service”, or means of helping bring some aspect of the target person “feel” more corporeal in everyday situations. We used this year’s batch of interns in order to keep this from being anymore macabre, but no issues were encountered on our part.
It was trivial to select preexisting media on the device, or add new ones on the fly, and then attached them to specified triggers to activate when demanded. There is talk that a ring wearable will be released to actually pick up on emotions, but the calendar settings worked just fine on our end.
However, the cherry on the top was the companion critter, that is pint sized companion that can be loaded up with personality data to help place the deceased person’s mannerism in a daily setting. We look forward to what this kind of convergent technology can bring, and for now our interns will probably get back to more dubious applications of an exciting technology.
App (Free) & Companion Critter ($99.99)”
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This is truly a bizarre new terrain! I’m so glad that you are working on this. Personally, when speaking of loved ones who passed, I find myself searching for images, video clips, or things that represent them as I want my living people to know the ones that passed, to somehow introduce them to the living. I was also just reading about the coexistence of life and death in indigenous cultures..: ‘.. Similarly, human death, for oral peoples, is not just a personal event but also a transformation in the land, a process whereby one’s individual sensibility opens outward to rejoin the encompassing, more-than-human field of sensations. In an old Pawnee tale, a dead man returns as a ghost, saying, “I am in everything; in the grass, the water.” The dead do not leave the sensuous world, forsaking it for an immaterial heaven.’
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/retreat/files/abram_the_spell_of_the_sensuous_perception.pdf