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Lifefolder (company)
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Lifefolder was a company created in 2017 by photographer, businessman and inventor Haje Jan Kamps, and artist and developer Colin Liotta, two San Francisco Bay Area entrepreneurs. Lifefolder was featured on the 2018 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab, which is an overview of cutting-edge research areas within digital ethics as defined by the Digital Ethics Lab of the University of Oxford, one of the leading universities of the world. According to the University of Oxford's official website, the Digital Ethics Lab is a multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet. Lifefolder and its Facebook messenger chatbot Emily received some media coverage during 2017. Emily chatbot was featured on the book Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development : Build chatbots and voice user interfaces with Chatfuel, Dialogflow, Microsoft Bot Framework, Twilio, and Alexa Skills (Phil D Hall and Vamsi Venigalla publishing houses). History Lifefolder was known for having launched Emily, a Facebook Messenger chatbot designed to help people with end of life planning in North Carolina. Using artificial intelligence, Lifefolder aimed to normalize talking about death and prepare for the logistics of dying. Through Lifefolder, Kamps sought to help people to work through the complicated emotional landscape that lies behind the question of ending one's life, that prevent people from thinking and talking about it. The inspiration behind the program came from its creator's own experience with his mother-in-law suffering a stroke and surviving. This event got Emily's maker thinking about end of life plans and how few conversations people have concerning their last wishes. 
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