She explains how the third genre (robotics) affects our society, from the hair dryer to the doll to be raped and see where our responsibility as a consumer is. A consumer anthropologist, she is a research associate at the ILTP of UNIL (Lausanne, Switzerland) where she conducts research on the influence of the unconscious representations systems in everyday life in a postmodern situation. She studies the impact of beliefs (Religion) and new religious phenomena (NMR) in consumption (West and Outside the West). It reports to Groupe SEB’s Research Division in the Technology Division. She is in charge of the Human Sciences department, one of the five key technologies identified by the group to innovate. She works in universities and schools where she teaches courses in consumer anthropology with a Masters audience. In particular, she is piloting INSA Lyon’s « Anthropology of innovation and consumption » option. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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