The SelfReflector: Design, IoT and the High Street

Jayne Wallace; Jon Rogers; Michael Shorter; Pete Thomas; Martin Skelly; Richard Cook

doi:10.1145/3173574.3173997

The SelfReflector: Design, IoT and the High Street

Jayne Wallace, Jon Rogers, Michael Shorter, Pete Thomas, Martin Skelly, Richard Cook

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Abstract

We describe the design of SelfReflector an internet-connected mirror that uses online facial recognition to estimate your age and play music from when it thinks you were 14 years old. The mirror was created for a specific shop (SPeX PisTOls optical boutique), within a research through design project centered on the high street as a space of vital social, economic and environmental exchange that offers a myriad of psychosocial support for people beyond a place to purchase goods. We present in detail how the design emerged as our research interests developed related to IoT and how people use the high street to experiment with, and support sense of self. We discuss SelfReflector in relation to challenges for IoT, facial recognition and surveillance technologies, mirrorness and the values of a craft approach to designing technology centering on the nature of the bespoke and ‘one-off’.

Original language	English
Pages	1-12
Number of pages	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173997
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2018
Event	2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Montréal, Canada Duration: 21 Apr 2018 → 26 Apr 2018 https://chi2018.acm.org/

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Conference	2018 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI 2018
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montréal
Period	21/04/18 → 26/04/18
Internet address	https://chi2018.acm.org/

Keywords

design
craft
research through design
facial recognition
shopping
sense of self
connected mirror
internet of things

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