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Calm Technology and the Future of the Interface
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How the next generation of geolocation technology will change everything
Amber Case | @caseorganic Director, Esri R&D Center Portland
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Industry Preview 21 Jan 2015
Grand Hyatt Hotel, NYC
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50 billion devices will be online by 2020. -Cisco
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Sound good?
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Consider…
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The "Smart" Watch
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The "Smart" Fridge
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The Dystopian Kitchen of the Future
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An era of interruptive technology
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We need a Calm Technology
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XEROX PARC: mid-90s
Mark Weiser John Seeley Brown
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Technology shouldn’t require all of our attention, just some of it, and only when necessary.
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Calm technology makes use of our peripheral attention, allowing us to be aware of more things with less cognitive overhead.
Empowering the Periphery
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A calm technology will move easily from the periphery of our attention, to the center, and back: !
Things in the periphery are attuned to by the large portion of our brains devoted to peripheral (sensory) processing. By placing things in the periphery we are able to attune to many more things than we could if everything had to be at the center. Thus the periphery is informing without overburdening. !
- Weiser, Brown, The Coming Age of Calm Technology
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I. Examples of Calm Technology
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A Tea Kettle
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A little tech goes a long way…
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Toilet Occupied Sign
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Weather Status Lighting
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Aaron Parecki @aaronpk 2014
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Hue Lightbulb connected to a weather report
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II. Designing Calm Technology
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1. A technology should inform and encalm 2. Make use of the periphery
Two Principles of Calm Technology
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1. Machines shouldn't act like humans 2. Humans shouldn't act like machines 3. Amplify the best part of each
Design for people first
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Technology can communicate, but doesn’t need to speak
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The Roomba Robotic Vacuum Cleaner :)
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1. Haptics vs. auditory alerts (haptic compass)
2. Light status vs. full display (on/off)
3. Positive or negative tones (home electronics)
4. Transparency (inner-office windows)
Create ambient awareness through different senses
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LUMOBack Smart Posture Sensor
Buzzes you when you exhibit poor
posture.
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III. Calm Technology and Next Gen Location
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Evolution of the Interface
^Univac 1 ~1950s
iPhone ~2000s
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What’s the next generation of the
interface?
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1500m
120m
An invisible button
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Location as an invisible interface
•Actions as buttons •Invisible interfaces •Trigger-based interactions
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Functional Location-Based Reminder Applications | 2006
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•Processes occur in the background •Data is pushed to the user •User input can come in many forms, not just through keyboard input
Ambient Information
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• User’s location • Time of day • Current speed (slow or fast?) • Average speed over time (driving vs. walking) • Prior actions (clicks, subscriptions • User’s friends on another platform
Ambient Input
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KPCB Internet Trends 2015
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Data is stuck on the web • Location brings it to life • Just-in-time information
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What about Privacy?
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Privacy is the ability to have control over where your content goes
and who it is accessed by.
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Privacy is the ability not to be surprised.
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Practice Privacy by Design instead of Privacy by Disaster
http://www.privacybydesign.ca/
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A person's primary task should not be computing, but being human.
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Great design allows people to accomplish their goals in the least amount of moves
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Calm Technology allows people to accomplish the same goals with the least amount of mental cost
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Thank you very much! calmtechnology.com
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Amber Case | @caseorganic Director, Esri R&D Center Portland
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Industry Preview 21 Jan 2015
Grand Hyatt Hotel, NYC
