Implications of hormonal tracking in team work

Abstract

This design fiction presents a Hormonal Tracking System (HORTS) that helps to gather, in groups of explorers, highly effective individuals, and control the mental health of those involved in colonizing Mars. We build our future world based on the mass adoption of wearable sensors, in algorithms to create matches and diffusion of surveillance methods. We establish a parallel with the surveillance methods current, increasingly widespread among the population, and with the existing intrusive techniques various environments. This raises questions about the panoptic surveillance to which participants are submitted and the meaning of individuality and privacy in these settings.