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that technology shows us that it responds to human
needs and in this case with wearable computers its
the same concept, computers start in a room, it continues in a desk, it continues in your pocket...inside
your cellphone... but we still want it closer...we want
it available every second... in case I have a question, I
have a need to connect to someone and that's why we
are now having computers in our faces because it was
a natural next step that we have been pursuing I think
for...people have been trying to do these things since
the late 1980's...
AH: Yes...1980's and earlier too...so, I have heard
a similar analogy to that as well and I hear also that
you know given this new technology that you have
recently been involved and been at the centre of public interest in an incident involving the law. Can you
please detail what happened and what has happened
since that, and what has been the result of that altercation with the law?
CA: What it was as I was driving and I see the lights
behind me which means you have to stop... an officer stops me and tells me that I was speeding and then
after that he asks me...he completely knew that I was
wearing Google Glass somehow because most people
around don't know it yet and he asks me why I was
wearing Google Glass whilst I was driving so he knew
when he asked me that question repeatedly and my only
answer at that time was that I wear these all day long...I
wear it from morning till night... that I was wearing it
but I wasn't using it and he gave me two tickets... or two
infractions in one ticket which was one for the speeding
and one for wearing or having a monitor visible to the
driver...and that was the beginning of it...
AH: And it sounds like it's gone a long way from
there?
CA: It was a whole ride from there you could say.
So what happened then is when I saw that he wrote
that second infraction when I got home I looked at it
and my mind was very confused and I was having all
these questions because I never heard before that it
would not be legal to be driving with Google Glass.
I never suspected that these... me and all my friends
had been driving for months at this time, right? Since
like May till October we had all been driving without any problems so that was very unexpected and
surprising so I posted the incident up in the social
networks..in Google Plus and everybody started
pouring comments and copying other people and it
became like a big snowball.
AH: It has indeed and I'm part of the snowball,
with more questions to ask. I'm very interested in
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what this digital eyewear or glass means in the context
of your everyday life?
CA: It has different aspects. Being a pioneer in
a technology that is so visible and so different, so
feared, it really makes for differing types of experiences so there is the user experience or experimenting with new gadgets which many of us love etc!. For
me it is like the geek in me. I love the experience of
trying new stuff, getting new updates, getting new
applications, so it's a lot of fun and as a developer it's
been amazing because when you develop for a new
gadget like this it has like sensors and we are doing
like a fitness app and then you can see the sensors,
you can count what the person is doing and you can
track everything that is happening so as a developer
it is an amazingly fun device. But then there is the
experience of just going out on the street with these
and people haven't seen it and maybe they saw it last
time on TV and now they see it live and they are like
"Wow! Is that Google Glass?" and they want to try it
and there are people you hear that are like whispering... "Google Glass!"...you know...it's a fun experience... it's a lot of fun.
AH: And when I say daily life I'm talking also
about family, children, parents...partners and so on.
How does it affect them?
CA: At the beginning I remember my husband
asking me "You're already wearing that thing?" And
at night like "you're still wearing that thing?" But
everybody just got used to it, and my co-workers at
the beginning we were in a meeting and they were
like "ah"...you know, they were a little bit suspicious
or felt weird but everybody got very used to it and
what happened actually is that when they saw me
without it they were like, "What happened? You're
missing your Glass," so it became like an extension
of me and some people took it that way. For kids
it's awesome because taking pictures of kids are a
little harder sometimes but with these you can like
make a wink, and it means I just took a picture and
so it's very simple and handy and you can capture
even more moments.
AH: Sure... so that leads me to an indication as
to say are you encountering any resistance from the
general public in a public space or when I say public
space I mean also private space because it depends on
the context as to what is public and private.
CA: I've been out there in public and private and
most reactions are very nice at the beginning or some
people look but they don't know what they are seeing. That's the most weird, but some people are a little
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