Keynote speech on the future of the interface and location-based technologies at the SXSWi 2012 conference in Austin, Texas. Audience size: 3,200 (thanks to everyone who was there in person, and the additional 1,000 in break-out rooms!).
Audio available here: http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP992057
SaulPaul's rap recap of the keynote: http://audio.sxsw.com/2012/podcasts/SaulPaulRecapRap_AmberCase.mp3
Write-up: http://sxsw.com/node/10804
Speech date and time: Sunday, March 11, 2:00PM - 3:00PM. Austin Convention Center Exhibit Hall 5, 500 E Cesar Chavez St.
Speech Abstract:
We are now entering into an era of liquid interfaces, where buttons can be downloaded at will, and software flies through the air. Phones have been untethered from their cords and are free to colonize our pockets. They cry, and we must pick them up. They get hungry, and we must plug them in. We increasingly live on interfaces, and it is their quality and design which increases our happiness and our frustration.
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 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.
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. Topics will include non-places, time and space compression, privacy, user flow, supermodernity, wearable computing, work and play, gaming, history and prosthetic culture.
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