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How we can become better partners with our robots and smart machines – Interview with Carla Diana
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Interview Timeline
Carla Diana is a designer, author, and educator who explores the design of future technologies. She serves as Head of Design for Diligent Robotics. She has designed a range of products and she has written a book on smart machine design concepts. We spoke about machine design and her research. My Robot Gets Me: How Social Design Can Make New Products More Human (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021)
0:39 – Carla talks about how she got into the study of human-smart machine interaction.
3:46 – Carla talks about mass market machines versus cutting edge technologies.
6:32 – Carla talks about the book and approaches to human-machine interaction.
14:05 – Carla talks how human machines should be. She discusses the Robopsych podcast she’s part of.
19:39 – Carla talks about interactions between children and robotic devices.
22:43 – Carla talks about robots working with people lacking some senses or limbs.
26:10 – Carla talks creating machines that don’t need an instruction manual.
29:34 – Carla compares robot and computer design principles.
31:37 – Carla talks about the framework of the book.
37:09 – Carla talks about machines collecting information they don’t directly need.
39:33 – Carla talks about users competing to use a machine.
41:40 – Carla talks about the terms host and guest.
43:15 – Carla talks about the research she did for the book and the people she interviewed for the book.
46:51 – Carla talks about cultural impacts on design.
50:35 – Carla talks about affective computing.
52:47 – Carla talks about privacy issues with machines.
1:06:25 – Carla can be found on instagram, facebook and twitter @carladiana and at carladiana.com.
Links of interest
https://instagram.com/carladiana
https://carladiana.squarespace.com/
https://twitter.com/carladiana_
https://www.facebook.com/carla.diana.design
Contact Information
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Guests: Carla Diana
Host: Cris Alvarez
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