Alexa, Call Mom! is an IoT interactive installation, created to answer the question: What if Amazon Alexa could channel the dead? It’s Mother’s Day and you are trying to contact your recently deceased mother. You go to her old apartment where you are prompted to use a new “service” from the Amazon smart home device, Alexa, that provides seamless communication with the dead. Oscillating between Alexa and her ghostly self, Mom unlocks the power of Alexa to possess all WiFi enabled devices. Communicating throu
As a Media Lab Fellow at The Economist, I created multiple prototypes exploring AR Storytelling in the context of the publication’s thought-provoking journalistic content.
AR experiences were created with Unity, ARKit and ARCore.