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�Jana Thompson (Feminist.AI/MICA)�29.09.2020

EMBOIDED ETHNOGRAPHY

Posthuman and Community Approaches

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In an age of AI modeling, the championing of disembodied intelligence, how can we grow ethnography into experimental spaces and true collaboration?

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Participatory AI

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Can academics and designers give the voice back rather than make it be subaltern and secondary?

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“… the embodied human and his perceptions along with the computational processes that he creates and that work to co-constitute him and his perceptions.”

-- N. Katherine Hayles My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts

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“Any remaking of our current paradigm of care would begin with throwing out the DSM with its ludicrous setting of diagnostic boundaries between the ‘normal’ and the ‘abnormal’. The “normality” that haunts the pages of that manual is not to be found in any world depicted by novelists, playwrights… it is a make-believe ‘normalcy’...”

-- Robert Whitaker,Forward to We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices From Radical Mental Health

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Histories are bound up with attachments precisely insofar as it is a question of what sticks, of what connections are lived as the most intense or intimate, as being closer to the skin.

--- Sara Ahmed Collective Feelings

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Ideation

“Feelings are always complicated to describe and people have their own interpretations of different words, so I would not be surprised if a single word can not fully explain a person’s feeling.” �contributor from China in 2018

“Sometimes finding just a single word or multiple words to define what one is feeling is hard but sometimes it works.” – contributor from Uganda, 2018

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Design Heuristics

How do you design a feeling?

Design so that the feeling can be interacted with.

Design so that the feeling can be abstract

Design so that the feeling can have no preconceived ideas to what a feeling looks like.

Design so that the feeling can mutate in shape and form over time.

Design so that the feeling can act as a data point for machine learning.

Design for privacy as a First-class citizen of the system.

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Removing feeling on your body

Removing feeling from inside your body

Design Research: Physicality of Feelings

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The mobile interface – 1 ”clouds”

  • video

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The mobile interface 2 – “throw a feeling”

  • Show with phone (clean out bed)

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Bodies in space – Mozilla XR

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video

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Feminist.AI Collective - https://feminist.ai

Stephanie Cedeño (concept and design) - https://stephaniecedeno.com/

Christine Meinders (concept and design) - @meinders_chris (Twitter)

Michelle Gong (visual design) - @itsmichgong (Instagram)

Carey Crooks (XR design and development) - @clcrooks (Medium)

Justin Lee (XR design and development) - https://github.com/theotherjustin

Anastasia Victor (XR design) - https://anastasia.io/

Shiveesh Fotedar (Data design) - https://www.shiveesh.com/