Amber Case
Cyborg Anthropologist, Geoloqi

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Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and User Experience Designer from Portland, Oregon. She studies the interaction between humans and computers and how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think, act, and understand their worlds. Her main focus is on mobile software, augmented reality and data visualization, as these reduce the amount of time and space it takes for people to connect with information. Case founded Geoloqi.com, a private location sharing application, out of a frustration with existing social protocols around text messaging and wayfinding.

Case has spoken at various industry conferences including MIT’s Futures of Entertainment and Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference, Ignite Portland and Ignite Boulder. She presented an Introduction to Cyborg Anthropology at Webvisions 2009 and Keynoted Portland’s Open Source Bridge with a speech on Cyborg Citizens. She’s been a guest lecturer at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Lewis & Clark College and Oregon State University’s School of Continuing Education. In 2010 she was named one of Fast Company’s Most Influential Women in Tech. She formerly worked at Wieden+Kennedy, a global advertising agency based in Portland, Oregon. She currently works as a User Experience Designer at Vertigo Software.

In 2008, Case founded CyborgCamp, an unconference on the future of humans and computers. To attend, visit portland.cyborgcamp.com.

You can learn more about Cyborg Anthropology at www.cyborganthropology.com, and on Twitter at @caseorganic.