This project aimed to explore how payments and identification might be moved from traditional wallets and implemented into a smart wearable.The thesis was that this would be doable through the use of NFC (Near Field Communication), IoT (Internet of Things) and Cloud-based services.Research was made by collecting data through questionnaires, local workshops, bodystorming and looking into online literature and articles on the subject of future consumer trends, wearable technology and biometric systems, security concerning wireless payments and identification as well as trend analysis articles concerning the Digital Self - also known as the Exoself - which came to have a major impact on the direction the project took. Through ideation five concepts concerning services and products using a person’s Digital Self were formed and evaluated with workshops. This eventually led to a concept called Shopal being decided as the endgame of the project. Shopal was a service which filtered the user’s information within the Digital Self to make shopping decisions easier, by learning what the user wants to know about certain types of products, then aiming to deliver said information. This service was called AIA (Artificial Intelligence Assistant). The second outcome of the Shopal concept was the AHW (At-Hand-Wearable) collection named SIGIL, which works as a means to extend AIA:s perception to what the user touches and interacts with, allowing it to gather information about the product, then delivering it through the physical AHW to the user.

What lies beneath the surface of modern day interfaces? And what are the consequences of sharing our digital self with companies in exchange for free services? We report on a study of smartphone users in Sweden where behaviours and reactions are assessed from a critical viewpoint using the suggested method “Clear the palace”. Users express concerns regarding management of the digital self as well as showing awareness of the limitations within personalization as a result of data mining. Strategies to limit mobile overuse are discussed. The analysis is based on; Shklovski’s notions privacy paradox and creepiness and Pierce’s framework of undesigning technology. Clear the Palace as a methodology is assessed aswell as societal implications of data mining are problematized. / Vad pågår under ytan av moderna gränssnitt? Och vad är konsekvenserna av att vi delar våra digitala jag med företag i utbyte mot gratis tjänster? Vi redogör för en studie av mobilanvändare i Sverige där beteenden och reaktioner studeras ur ett kritiskt perspektiv med metoden “Röj palatset”. Användare uttrycker oro gällande hanteringen av det digitala jaget och uppvisar medvetenhet angående begränsningarna av personalisering som en följd av data mining. Strategier för att begränsa överanvändning av smartmobiler diskuteras. Analysen baseras på; Privacy Paradox, Leakiness/Creepiness enligt Shklovski och Pierce ramverk Undesigning Technology. Röj palatset som metod utvärderas och implikationer av data mining för samhället problematiseras.