Jeremy Wilken
@gnomeontherun
• Staff UI Engineer at VMware
• Google Developer Expert
• Author of Angular in Action, Ionic in
Action
• Homebrewer, Certified Beer Judge
• Live in Austin, TX
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A look at the future,
from the past.
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Applications of tomorrow will use natural
language to improve user experience.
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Use case: Databank
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Challenges in traditional
user experience
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– R O B E R T O R B E N
“To err is human - and to blame it on a
computer is even more so.”
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Demo using natural
language
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– J E A N R O S TA N D
“Think? Why think! We have computers to
do that for us.”
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Actions on Google
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Actions on Google
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– T E M P L E G R A N D I N
“Language for me narrates the pictures in
my mind.”
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Actions on Google
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API.ai maps language to
actions
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– D O U G L A R S O N
“If the English language made any sense,
lackadaisical would have something to do
with a shortage of flowers.”
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Actions on Google
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Actions on Google
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Actions on Google
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– N I C H O L A S N E G R O P O N T E
“Computing is not about computers any
more. It is about living.”
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Potential use cases
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– T E D N E L S O N
“The good news about computers is that
they do what you tell them to do.
The bad news is that they do what you tell
them to do.”
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A word of caution with voice commands
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– A R T H U R K O E S T L E R
“True creativity often starts where
language ends.”