The Intriguing Case of Human Identity

Rahul Sen MA Interaction Design Degree Project

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(Interaction) Design: Making great stories come true.

My Story is set in the near Future.

This Future promises to be Complex, Social and Open.

To anticipate this Future, lets flashback to 2009.

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To anticipate this Future, lets flashback to 2009.

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A lot of positive changes are happening today.

Toward a Hyper-Networked Future

We are entrusting money to the Cloud.

I Share, Therefore I Am.

There is great value in sharing experiences as actionable information.

Dopplr is one of the many services we will see emerging in the years ahead that will make our generation far more aware as a community.

It is building the inevitable path toward a 7th sense.

Everyone is a potential celebrity.

Everyone is watching and being watched.

Like Today, the Future will not be Perfect.

Sometimes, the Future even seems scary.

Cell Phones, TV and Elvis were scary too!

We are shaping our Tools;Our Tools are shaping Us.

Our Tools empower Us,They are also our burden to bear.

Our Tools are affecting our Identity.

I tried to understand Identity today.

In the ‘Cloudy’ FutureIdentity is likely to be

Mashed upBlurredScalableOpenEverywhereAll of the above

AccessPackageReputation

YouFamily Form Possess Interact Transact Co-existFriendsCommunityPeople The World

Identity?Time

PlaceProximity

Identity: Consumers to Co-creators.

Earlier generations built reputations over years. Back then, we were consumers of media.

Today thanks to our Social Media Tools - Identity is shaped by the content we create, edit and share.

THIS MAKES IDENTITY MORE TRANSIENT.

I tried to glimpse into the Future.

I tried to imagine our Identity in the Future.

I also met some People from the Future.

In this future, we were all Superheros.

Like Superhero’s, we wore Masks.

We used Super-Tools.

‘Smart’ windowsinto the Cloud

New accessories that informed us

Identity Game: We are what we create, edit and share.

A Butler to manage our multiple Identities.

This Butler would ‘tune’ the Table for Us.

Let’s me know my Identity Status at a glance.

Let’s me decide what role I want to play.

Let’s me tune my Identity flow.

A Service to help manage Identity

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