Little red-smart-hood: envisioning how ambient and ubiquitous technologies may affect future everyday life

  • Authors:
  • Dimitris Grammenos

  • Affiliations:
  • Foundation for Research and Technology -- Hellas (FORTH), Vassilika Vouton, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Proceeding of the 16th International Academic MindTrek Conference
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

It is not customary for a research paper to start with "Once upon a time..." Up to now, the task of envisioning novel technologies and how, and which, might affect future everyday life has been typically served thought the creation of exemplary user profiles and real-life scenarios depicting forthcoming technologies, along with their potential impact, challenges and problems. In this respect, this paper suggests an alternative approach to the "conventional" realistic approach to envisioning the future, based on the "modernization" of very well-known traditional fairytales. In this context, this paper presents an adaptation of the original Grimm Brothers' version of the "Little red cap" (or, riding hood) fairytale, "updated" with, fully-referenced, state-of-the-art R&D results and technologies.