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Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios en Diseño y Comunicación. Ensayos
versión On-line ISSN 1853-3523
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CARROLL, David R. The Transgressive Early Adopter: Being a Google Glass Explorer. Cuad. Cent. Estud. Diseñ. Comun., Ensayos [online]. 2015, n.53, pp.243-262. ISSN 1853-3523.
With the advent of commercially available wearable computing devices, our technologically driven marketplaces accelerate an increasingly designed, mediated, and networked lifestyle where connected sensors, cameras, and display screens embed themselves onto our bodies rather than merely resting in our pockets and palms. This first phase of wearable computers includes bracelets containing sensors and wireless radios to track motion and activity toward a “quantified self” through data and personal context, mostly towards fitness and health objectives. Far less discreetly, Google Glass, the eyewear device with an integrated camera and a prism display positioned above the line of sight is perhaps the most startling and controversial new product that tests the boundaries of wearable utility and social acceptability. At the time of this writing, only hand-selected “Glass Explorers” are able to purchase the device as Google market-tests the product with “influencers” and early adopters. The author was accepted as an evaluation user of Glass and offers a personal and critical analysis of the experience here as a way of pointing towards a near future of increasingly wearable computing that infiltrates the body and its relationship to our social and spatial contexts.
Palabras clave : Wearable computing; Privacy; Policy; Marketing; Early adopters; Contextual computing; Google; Augmented reality; Technology Etiquette; Networked identity; Mobile computing; Corporate gaze; Fashionable technology; Silicon Valley; Advertising; Dataveillance; Surveillance; Sousveillance; McVeillance; Voice control; Gesture control; Bone conduction; Transgressive technology; Digital prosthesis; Steve Mann; Glassholes; Molly Crabapple; Ernst Mach; Vannevar Bush; Caroline A. Jones.