IxDA Dublin - Feb 2012 - From Solid to Liquid to Air: Interaction Design and the Future of the Interface

We are tool using creatures. Prosthetics touch almost every part of our lives. Until recently, humans have used their hands and bodies to interface with objects. Early interfaces were solid and tactile. Now, the interface can be anywhere. The best interfaces compress the time and space it takes to absorb relevant information, and the worst cause us car accidents, lost revenue, and communication failures. We increasingly live on interfaces, and it is their quality and design which increases our happiness and our frustration.

This speech discusses how the field of anthropology can be applied to interface design, and how future interfaces, such as the ones employed by augmented reality, will change the way we act, feel and communicate with one another.

Transcript

1. From Solid to Liquid to Air: Interaction Design and the Future of the Interface Interaction ‘12 Dublin, Ireland 3 Feb, 2011 Amber Case @caseorganic case@caseorganic.com
2. we are all cyborgs
4. an organism “to which exogenous components have been added for the purpose of adapting to new ambient spaces” cyborg:
6. Flickr: cybertoad
7. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/ 119/293670483_cbce23bdde_b.jpg Flickr: soylentgreen23
8. Flickr: cybertoad
9. Univac 1 ~1950’s iPhone ~2000’s
10. traditional anthropology
11. cyborg anthropology Flickr: futurestreet
12. I. History
13. Self-Portrait of Steve Mann with Wearable Computing Apparatus 1981. slideshare.net/caseorganic
14. WearCam: the wearable camera
15. Diminished Reality vs. Augmented Reality •  Adding your own layer onto reality •  Replacing public messages with your own slideshare.net/caseorganic
16. Twiddler by HandyKey Corporation One-Handed Key Chording USB Keyboard @caseorganic
17. Image recognition, processing and replacement. @caseorganic
18. Remember the Milk Contextual Notification Systems Virtual Post-It Notes with Image Processing 1995 slideshare.net/caseorganic @caseorganic
19. Computer-Mediated Reality: Face Recognition and History
20. Evolution of Prosthesis slideshare.net/caseorganic
21. Present-Day
22. II. Present Day
23. the automatic production of space
28. Digital Dark Age?
29. Hyperlinked Memories
30. Persistent Paleontology
31. information jet-lag
33. Panic architecture
34. Prosthetics and their discontents
35. Prosthetics and their discontents
38. Technosocial Wormholes
39. Flickr: GenoDM Temporarily Negotiated Private Space
41. ambient intimacy Leisa Reichelt
42. Flickr: piet_musterd
44. III. The Future
45. Calm Technology Flickr: thriol
46. •  Calm technology •  Actions as buttons •  Invisible interfaces •  Trigger-based interactions
47. Skeuomorphs and Interfaces
48. Persistent Architectures
49. Superhuman Interfaces
50. Wayfinding with Non-Visual AR Haptic Compass http://www.sensebridge.net
51. Machine Language Kelly Dobson
53. GPS
54. 3 million GPS points Oct 2009-April 2012
56. Home Automation When you enter your house, the lights turn on! When you leave, the lights turn off!
57. your phone will become a remote control for reality.
58. Bringing Wikipedia to Life
59. Made by Reid Beels at a Geoloqi Hackathon
60. Real-time gaming slideshare.net/caseorganic @caseorganic
61. MapA ack! A Game of Territory Capture h p://geoloqi.com
62. mapattack.org
63. Flashmob Game / Interactive Scavenger Hunt h p://geoloqi.com
64. Sponsored Marathon Games h p://geoloqi.com
65. The interface disappears •  Actions are Reduced •  Queries are Eliminated
66. The best technology
67. No longer this.
68. This!
69. Thank you. Amber Case @caseorganic case@caseorganic.com Slides: slideshare.net/caseorganic