I found Lauren McCarthy’s research on relationships through surveillance to be very interesting, taking a somewhat unusual spin on the hashtag “#caughtonNestCam” publicized by Nest Labs, the company behind the home surveillance system Nest. McCarthy and her colleague Kyle McDonald conducted an experiment where they would observe each other solely through a surveillance system similar to Nest, but when one would surveil the other, that surveiller would be recorded. I found this experiment to be unique in how it made the surveiller feel very self-aware of themselves while monitoring the other, while adding a strongly “human” element to the surveillance. Many would say that surveillance feels very “alien” and impersonal in a way, but as McCarthy puts it, knowing what the significant other is doing is a large factor in any relationship.