ixda talk: connected objects are natural born storytellers (revisited)

Natural  Born  Storytellers  Connected  Objects  are  

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By  Leandro  Agrò  

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A  few  things  that  everyone  already  knows...  

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According 98% of our DNA Humans = Apes

What makes us... Humans?

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Humans are characterized by erect posture and bipedal locomotion; manual dexterity and increased tool use, compared to other animals; and a general trend toward larger, more complex brains and societies.

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Our small world, as we know it, is shaped by our tools

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Technological Innovation is an Evolutionary Process, that responds to social innovation.

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We are the consequence of the TOOLS we use.

The concept of "civic intelligence," certainly an example of social innovation, is a response to a perceived need and the reception that it receives or doesn't receive will be in proportion to its perceived need by others.

This certainly resonates with George Basalla's findings related to technological innovation,[6] which simultaneously facilitates and responds to social innovation.

https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/technology_and_culture/v043/43.2basalla.html This book presents an evolutionary theory

of technological change based upon recent scholarship in the history of technology and upon relevant material drawn from economic history and anthropology. It challenges the popular notion that technology advances by the efforts of a few heroic individuals who produce a series of revolutionary inventions owing little or nothing to the technological past. Therefore, the book's arguement is shaped by analogies taken selectively from the theory of organic evolution, and not from the theory and practice of political revolution

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Technologies  are  shaping  us    through  the    cogniIve  (connected)  devices  we  are  using  

What  means  for  IxDA?  

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HCI  path  to  the  future

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HCI  path  to  the  future

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Surprised? LOVE might be the final UX strategy to seduce and retain users. …luckily we are not yet there…

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When SCI-­‐FI  AGE

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When We  live  on  the  border  between    Cloud  FOG  compuIng  and  the  IoT  Age.      At  this  stage  of  technological  evoluIon,  being  connected  is  a  Darwinian  issue  for  a  product:  a  key  element  for  it,  to  live  long  and  prosper.    

SCI-­‐FI  AGE

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The autopilot service is constantly learning, thanks to machine learning algorithms, detailed mapping and sensor data, and the car’s wireless connection. Tesla leverages these informations from its entire fleet autopilot-enabled cars. Meaning, it operates as a network so when one car learns something, they all learn it.

Cultural  ShiU

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Every  Tool,  service  and  business  that  jumps  into  digital  technology,  starts  to  follow  Moore’s  Law:      

Peter  Diamandis  

h3p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9wFXHYJgdo  

AcceleraIon  changes  everything  

BILLION  of  connected  objects  are  knocking  to  our  doors

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Placing  an  object  in  a  pocket,  in  a  car,  on  a  desktop  or  in  customer’s  homes  means  to  create  a  personal,  bi-­‐direcIonal,    always-­‐on,  communicaCon  channel.  

BUSINESS is PUSHING IoT

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The  INTERNET  OF  THINGS  bridges  both  the  physical  and  digital  worlds,  permiang  the  power  of  the  internet  to  reach  everywhere  humanity.  

We  are  already  living  a  world  wide  conversaIon  that  includes  our  tools

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Our  Connected  Objects  started  helping  us  to  tell  stories…

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We  evolve  sharing  

stories  

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 Who  is  actually  taking  the  picture?  Are  you  smiling?  Are  your  eyes  open?  Who  added  locaIon?  Who  added  metadata?  

Smartphones  are  supporIng  your  storytelling…    

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   What  is  real?  Who  is  the  arFst?  Algorithm  is  acIvely  proposing  a  specific  way  to  tell  the  story…    

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 Is  this  an  incepFon?  From  where  the  SELFIE  habit  come  from?    Why  do  you  want  to  share  this  picture  with  “social”  friends?  We  are  the  consequence  of  the  tools  we  use  Mutual  influence,  induced  need,  incepIon  

Your  phone  is  influencing  the  start  of  a  new  story  

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ProacCve  Panorama  Androids  examine  every  picture  you  take  -­‐  and  -­‐  it  proacIvely  assembles  a  panorama  without  your  request.  

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ProacCve  Panorama  Androids  examine  every  picture  you  take  -­‐  and  -­‐  it  proacIvely  assembles  a  panorama  without  your  request.  

Your  phone  is  autonomously  building  a  frame  of  the  story  

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Build  the  story    One-­‐click  Movie  trailer    Families  started  to  collect  and  record  their  special  moments  in  a  brand  new  way,  that  is  actually  influencing  their  lifeIme  memories  

Your  phone  is  autonomously  building  the  teaser  of  a  story  

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CollecCng  Data  Connected  objects  are  usually  smart  enough  to  play  an  automaCc  behavior.      For  example,  make  a  detecIon  each  “x”  minutes,  or  take  a  picture  each  Ime  there  is  a  specific  condiIon,  etc.      

AutomaIc  memories  are  almost  a  story.  In  fact,  starIng  from  a  simple  acIon  repeated  in  Ime,  is  easy  to  create  a  visualizaIon  that  supports  a  specific  storytelling.  

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Organizing  Data  Visualizing  informaIon  is  already  a  first  picture  of  a  story.  The  right  visualizaIon  is  powerful  way  to  influence  users.    Fitness  bracelets  records  what  we  do  every  day.    This  extended  memory,  visualized  through  a  dashboard,    is  able  to  make  our  behavior  measurable  and  more  understandable.    At  the  same  Ime,  the  new  automaCc,  visual  and  mathemaCcal  language  of    these  automaCc  memories  is  already  part  of  a  brand  new  kind  of  storytelling.    

Your  dashboard  is  a  representaIon  of  you.  You  are  your  dashboard.  You  might  desire  to  achieve  a  be3er  result.    

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From  interacCon  to  relaConship  Luka  is  an  app  that  gives  recommendaIons  in  a  chat  interface.    Users  can  message  with  quesIons  like  “Anything  fun  to  do  tonight?”    Luka  then  processes  those  requests  and  sends  back  recommendaIons  that  are  based  not  only  on  the  request  itself  but  your  history  and  preferences.  

Luka’s  storytelling  is  influencing  your  choices    

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Lived  conversaCon  Today’s  3.0  update  to  the  Telegram  apps  makes  interacIng  with  bots  super-­‐easy.  In  most  cases  you  won’t  even  have  to  type  anything,  because  bots  will  provide  you  with  a  set  of  custom  bu3ons.    Bots  are  simply  Telegram  accounts  operated  by  soUware  –  not  people  –  and  they'll  oUen  have  AI  features.  They  can  do  anything  –  teach,  play,  search,  broadcast,  remind,  connect,  integrate  with  other  services,  or  even  pass  commands  to  the  Internet  of  Things.  

Your  personal  assistant  “talks”  with  you  on  social  

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A  new  way  of  knowledge  Quartz  bot  is  an  app  that  interacts  with  you,  offering  up  news  stories  which  you  can  choose  to  get  more  informaIon  about  or  move  on  to  the  next.    

People  don’t  read  the  news  anymore?  Let’s  allow  computers  to  build  stories  that  might  fit  the  users  short  a3enIon  span.  

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knightscope-­‐k5  

   Skin & hearth

   We  all  are  cyborgs  

   Mission  CriFcal  autonomous        machines  observing  us  

Autonomous  cars  learn  from  all  of  us  -­‐      

http://www.slideshare.net/DQuid/iot-its-about-brand-collaboration

Our  Connected  Objects  started  helping  us  to  tell  stories,  but  they  might  learn  to  tell  their  own  stories,  

exactly  like  CARS  that  are  learning  to  DRIVE.

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Storyteller  objects  are  already  influencing  the  scene.    Younger  generaCons  are  seeing  faces  instead  screens...    

The  incoming  communicaIon  will  be  a  relaIonship  in  which  objects  emerge  -­‐from  the  Fog-­‐  as  real  enCCes.  

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hKp://blog.jibo.com/2016/02/03/animaFng-­‐jibo-­‐with-­‐the-­‐sdk/  

What  designers  should  design,  today?

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THINGS  are  evolving  faster  than  we  might  expect  

Push  design  boundaries  to  new  territories.    Embrace  and  celebrate  diversity.  

Be  much  more  than  a  “pixel  shaper”.

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What  designers  should  design,  today?

Behaviors, Data, Conversations, Mutual Learning, Stories…

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What  designers  should  design,  today?

#Life #IoT, #cognitivecomputing, #robots, #worlds, #artificiallife …

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KK:  “what  technology  wants…  is  what  LIFE  wants”  

Yes, Life

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This is NOT a “business like usual” moment into the design industry.

People  expectaIons  are  shaped    by  consumer  technologies.    

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The incoming stories, crafted together with our connected objects, will make History of computing and society (soon).

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There is life BEYOND the PIXELS, BEYOND the FRAME of the screen…

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. (Derek Zoolander)

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Infuse HUMANITY into everything (or everything it will evolve without it)

The Big Opportunity, today is to…

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Connected  Objects  are  Natural  Born  Storytellers  

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Connected  Objects  are  Natural  Born  Storytellers  

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