Eccentric Sensing
James Pierce · 2020
This project presents a series of objects that use commercially available smart products to speculatively explore opportunities, limitations, and concerns with future everyday sensing technologies. Through the creation of eccentric sensing devices that anchor speculation in existing consumer IoT devices [1,2], this projects extrapolates three key trends in data-driven interaction design: ubiquity, distribution, and autonomy of everyday sensing devices. The following pages provide an overview of three sets of ecentric sensing experiments. The exhibition will present a combination of visual proposals and operational devices exploring several themes including intimacy, concealment, intrusion, dispersion, and unpredictability with smart sensing systems. The exhibition of operational devices will focus on the theme of "unpredictable autonomy"-a theme aligned with the DIS 2020 conference theme of "more than human centered design."