Trustball

Materials: Raspberry Pi, Motor shield, Motors, 3D prints, MDF, LEDs


In this digital economy where data is continuously becoming currency, individual privacy, however, is downplayed as a result of the click-wrap agreement culture on the internet. Should I agree? Who should I trust? How can we re-think the privacy issues in a data-driven landscape?

With the PACTMAN research team, we explored aspects of consent in increasingly complex systems and situations, with the aim of reconsidering consent as more collective decision-making processes beyond the current status quo of individual one-click agreements.

Trustball was a physical questionnaire designed for PACTMAN to investigate where people would opt to delegate their consent decisions to an ecosystem of third parties within a festival setting.





Designed and built with Bettina Nissen, Chris Speed, Joanna Spreadbury and Rory Gianni

Funded by EPSRC UK and partially funded by the Department of Health as part of the Connected Health Cities project.

Data Pipe Dreams, Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018
CHI 2019 (Conference of Human-Computer Interaction)



Photo credits: The Centre of Design Informatics



Mark



Always a beginner, always a learner.