The Parasite Phone is a regular phone that lives in a parasitic case. The more the phone is used, the bigger the case will inflate and grow, and consequently the harder it becomes to use the phone. To be able to use the phone again, it needs to deflate, which can only happen when it is ignored. The material appearance of the phone was inspired by performative objects and soft and social robots.
Year ::: March 2021 – March 2022
Context ::: Research | Academic
Collaboration ::: ITU Copenhagen (IxD Lab) and Design Department of Politecnico di Milano
Team ::: Prof. Laurens Boer, Prof. Tom Jenkins, PhD Mila Stepanović
Read more ::: Mila Stepanovic, Laurens Boer and Tom Jenkins. 2022. Reconfiguring the Smartphone Use to Support Intentional Use. In Proceedings of ACM NordiCHI’22. October 8–12, 2022, Aarhus, Denmark. https://doi.org/10.1145/3546155.3546675.
