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By knowing you, Cassandra can decide what kind of music you prefer, what books you should read, what fashion brand you should wear and who will be your romantic partner so that you are free from the hassle of having to choose and can focus on what matters most: enjoying your life.
By knowing you, Cassandra can decide what kind of music you prefer, what books you should read, what fashion brand you should wear and who will be your romantic partner so that you are free from the hassle of having to choose and can focus on what matters most: enjoying your life.


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With a background in webdesign, things like interface design and user-friendliness are my daily concerns. During these 2 years at Piet Zwart Institute I have been researching the relationship between user-friendliness and the invisibility of technology. My graduation project, Cassandra, is built upon 3 main aspects: '''user data''' as content, '''voice''' as interface and '''ELIZA''' (Joseph Weizenbaum's program, written in 1964/1966) as engine.
With a background in webdesign, things like interface design and user-friendliness are my daily concerns. During these 2 years at Piet Zwart Institute I have been researching the relationship between user-friendliness and the invisibility of technology. My graduation project, Cassandra, is built upon 3 main aspects: '''user data''' as content, '''voice''' as interface and '''ELIZA''' (Joseph Weizenbaum's program, written in 1964/1966) as engine.



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Cassandra
Creator Lucia Dossin
Year 2015
Bio Lucia Dossin (BR/NL) has a background in architecture and webdesign. She works at the intersection of art and design, currently focusing on the interactions between humans and computers and their implications in subjectivity, language and politics.
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Website http://www.luciadossin.net

Cassandra is a voice-operated chatbot, aimed at making psychological profiles during the conversations. These profiles are shown as pie charts where every color corresponds to a personality attribute. The graphics are accompanied by a short analysis and a list of companies possibly interested in the profile. In this sense, the bot provides data that can act as a mediator in services like job-seeking and dating. The profile then becomes a digital representation of the user and can be used as a kind of digital key to personalize every gadget in the near future of the Internet of Things. Make your life easier, let Cassandra make a digital copy of you.