Coleta de dados pessoais com vistas a criação de avatares para imortalização digital

Abstract

During our lifetime we generate a huge amount of data with our interaction in the digital environment. Such data can be reused in order to identify unique characteristics of the individual and create a complex profile containing their habits and preferences. From this reuse it is possible to reconstruct the person’s history and create an avatar that will digitally represent them in the cybernetic environment, thus allowing the perpetuation of their afterlife through digital data, which can be characterized as digital immortality. However, digital immortality is a topic that is still being addressed in research and has few examples in practice, which are still under development, such as the social network Eter9. As a result, there are difficulties in advancing the implementation of solutions in this field. This lack of systems motivated the problem of this research. In this sense, this work aims to explore characteristics of an avatar system that implements aspects of digital immortality. From the methodological point of view, this research is an applied research with a qualitative approach which resorted to bibliographic reviews, questionnaires, focus group, semiotic inspection method, software engineering and prototyping. To this end, a medium fidelity prototype of the MyStory system was developed, which presents specific fields for the user to enter his data, giving him the freedom to choose which information he wants to be exposed. The system also presents a section for the user to create and customize his avatar, in order to represent him in the cybernetic environment. Finally, using the focus group to evaluate the MyStory system, it was possible to correct and improve the system, allowing to achieve the objective of this work. In addition, the discussions held in the focus group generated new issues to be addressed in future works. In this way, this work could be a precursor to future systems that address digital immortality.