Process Blog - Midterm Review

Context: ​

People should have rights to own their data

It should be a cohesive experience for people to create digital immortal life in their own way

Research Questions​:

Individual Level

How we can record our stories, memories and experiences in the digital world in a new way?

Societal Level

how we can help people manage those digital assets in their immortal virtual present just like how we manage in the physical world?

Project principles:​

Individual level

In touch with its own humanity, and approaches the tools of the era with no preconceived notion of their socially accepted use

Society level

Philosophy of keeping a simple way of living and connecting with others, within a virtual society

Precedents: ​

The Glad Scientist: Just in Time

Virtual Home and Muti Messengers

SIMS

Proposal：

Investigate the relationship between human physical presents and virtual realm, and how to simulate and translate the physically-based human activities into the virtual setting

Help to build a virtual intimate connection between people in their immortal digital present, and give back the ownership of digital rights to people

Reflection：

For the precedents part, I should take a look at wider range of examples instead of limiting into similar types of works. In the meanwhile, the concept is still a bit abstract at this moment and I notice it might be slightly difficult for people to grasp the idea.