The Self-Reflector: Design, IoT and the high street

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

doi:10.1145/3173574.3173997

The Self-Reflector: Design, IoT and the high street

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

School of Art and Design

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Abstract

We describe the design of Self-Reflector an internetconnected 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 Self-Reflector 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
Title of host publication	CHI '18 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1-12
Number of pages	12
Volume	2018-April
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450356206, 9781450356213
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173997
Publication status	Published - 20 Apr 2018
Event	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 21 Apr 2018 → 26 Apr 2018

Conference

Conference	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	21/04/18 → 26/04/18

Keywords

Connected mirror
Craft
Design
Facial recognition
Internet of things
Research through design
Sense of self
Shopping

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Software

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Best Paper Honourable Mention
Skelly, M. (Recipient), 21 Apr 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Thomas, Peter
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Wallace, J, Rogers, J, Shorter, M, Thomas, P , Skelly, M & Cook, R 2018, The Self-Reflector: Design, IoT and the high street. in CHI '18 Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. vol. 2018-April, 423, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1-12, 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018, Montreal, Canada, 21/04/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173997

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