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The Uncanny Valley of the IVR Bot.

By: JulianFiled under Art Technology, Audio + Voice, Design Fiction, New Interaction Partners, Peculiar, Post-Optimal Design, Science Fiction, Undesign. Tagged AI, Art Center College of Design, Bots, Interactive Voice Response, IVR, Media Design Program. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment

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Near Future Laboratory is a thinking, making, design, development and research practice based in California and Europe.

Our goal is to understand how imaginations and hypothesis become materialized to swerve the present into new, more habitable near future worlds.
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We are a collective of tactical scouts cobbling various near futures:
Jed Berk
Julian Bleecker
Will Carter
Aaron Straup Cope
Nick Foster
Fabien Girardin
Nicolas Nova
Ted Renwick
Jayne Vidheecharoen

Projects

As a practice, we work through a simple process of brainstorming themes, creating scenarios and prototypes that place the themes in everyday life. We split our projects between self-supported initiatives and work for clients that include BBVA, Nokia Design, Orange and Swisscom.

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The logs of our conversations on the “weak signals” that echo from the fringes of digital culture, where the near-future already exists:
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