ASHWINI ASOKAN Mad Street Den [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Pizza robots, pandemic trackers, altered carbon, the perfect tiktok lineup, that instagram lipstick filter, that racist sensor that filtered the victim, national citizen trackers, my deepfaked face on Okoye's body while I slay Kill Monger's men....We live in an AI world. Nascent and frivolous as it may seem to some, it powers billions of lives quietly everyday, both visibly and invisibly, thanks to the ubiquity of data and screens. But who are the creators? Who decides how people are controlled? How is AI designed? Who cares? Who is a citizen of an AI inhabited world? This talk explores the idea of an AI-Native, in a world largely being designed by the businesses of AI. [/s2If] [s2If !is_user_logged_in()] Pizza robots, pandemic trackers, altered carbon, the perfect tiktok lineup, that instagram lipstick filter, that racist sensor that filtered the victim, national citizen trackers, my deepfaked face on Okoye's body while I slay Kill Monger's men....We...

ALEXANDRA ZAFIROGLU and ASHWINI ASOKAN [s2If is_user_logged_in()]Download PDF[/s2If] In this paper, we explore how biographies of domestic objects are intertwined with the personal biographies of their owners and caretakers, narratives of household formation, and the life cycle of the family, and how we position the value of this work to business planners and engineers at Intel Corporation. By being curious and interested in objects in people’s homes and listening carefully to the narratives people tell about them, we create moving pictures of culturally-inflected constructions of individuals’ and groups’ lifecycles which in turn demonstrates how ‘objects’ are not ‘objective’, but always constituted and given meaning through relationships with and among people. At Intel Corporation, understanding life cycle transitions mediated by domestic objects deepens our knowledge both of technology in domestic spaces and of our current and potential customers and is an integral part of the development of technologies that enable experiences...

ASHWINI ASOKAN [s2If is_user_logged_in()]Download PDF[/s2If] Starting from their interactions within shared spaces and use of shared objects, to large social networks, the Indian society has developed a range of ways to incorporate subtle gestures and systems into their lives that neither forces them to share all their time and space with everyone, nor isolates them completely. This paper explores this idea that privacy is not always mutually exclusive from shared states. In the process, it highlights quality of time and space as a construct of subtle negotiations between the socially structured and personally desired. These subtleties allow Indians to design their lives around extensive grey spaces that exist in between the community and individual. This suggests some new ways for us to think about meaning of privacy, and its impact on how people in countries like India navigate complex social networks, cultural systems, and rigid social hierarchies, very often using technologies like phones and TVs.[s2If !is_user_logged_in()] Sign...