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Blockchain and Beyond

Understanding Blockchains through Prototypes and Public Engagement

This paper presents an annotated portfolio of projects that seek to understand and communicate the social and societal implications of blockchains, DLTs and smart contracts. These complex technologies rely on human and technical factors to deliver cryptocurrencies, shared computa ...

Making Everyday Things Talk

Speculative Conversations into the Future of Voice Interfaces at Home

What if things had a voice? What if we could talk directly to things instead of using a mediating voice interface such as an Alexa or a Google Assistant? In this paper, we share our insights from talking to a pair of boots, a tampon, a perfume bottle, and toilet paper among other ...

Things as co-ethnographers

Implications of a thing perspective for design and anthropology

Thing-centered narratives

A study of object personas