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The Divination of Things by Things

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Publication date25/04/2020
Host publicationCHI'20 : Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherACM
Number of pages10
ISBN (print)9871450368193
<mark>Original language</mark>English
EventCHI 2020 - Honololu, Hawaii
Duration: 25/04/202030/04/2020
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ConferenceCHI 2020
Period25/04/2030/04/20
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ConferenceCHI 2020
Period25/04/2030/04/20
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Abstract

As humans our view of the world is predominantly restricted to our own experience and are largely oblivious to the alternate perspective of reality experienced by the objects that cohabit our spaces even though such objects are often integral components of our lives. This paper considers the growing phenomenon whereby non-human objects such as cutlery and appliances are having what might be considered human-like experiences through integration of advanced computational programming. By examining the services provided by Madame Bitsy’s Fantastic Future Forecasting and Fortune Telling Emporium for the Internet of Living Things, which is a fully autonomous online fortune telling service for Internet of Things enabled objects and services, we attempt to illuminate what it means to be a digitally connected object.

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© ACM, 2020. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in CHI'20 Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts, http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3334480.3381823