sensory design at link festival 2016

SENSORY DESIGNOn designing for senses, meaning

emotion and augmentation

Code of conduct

Code of conversation

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Sensory design projects

Usability

SENSESUnderstand yourself

A moment

Senses Acts

What is perceive

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What is understo

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Lego for design

Sensory design is part of foundation

Senses

TouchSmellTasteSight

Hearing

TouchSmellTasteSight

Hearing

1

23=

4

TouchSmellTasteSight

Hearing

Close your eyes

CognitiveSlopTime

Chion

Hearing is the frame for your

senses

Heare

More Senses

Sight VisionHearing AuditionTasteGustationSmell OlfactionTouchSomatosensory

Balance & acceleration EquilibrioceptionTemperature ThermoceptionKinaesthetic sense Proprioception

Pain NociceptionTimeChronoceptionOther internal senses Interoception

Sight VisionHearing AuditionTasteGustationSmell OlfactionTouchSomatosensory

Balance & acceleration EquilibrioceptionTemperature ThermoceptionKinaesthetic sense Proprioception

Pain NociceptionTimeChronoceptionOther internal senses Interoception

Proprioception

ProprioceptionChronoception

Complexity hides the problem of sensory confusion

Ambiguity

Meaning

Playtime

Difficult

Users make meaning

Simplicity=

Clarity

User Interface as wall of metaphors

MEANINGSUnderstand what you say

What is perceive

d

What is understo

od

Pop Quiz

Name an English speaking mathematician in the 1940’s whose work led to the internet age?

Alan Turing

Alan TuringNOT

Claude Shannon

Information Theory

More parts toconversation

What we say

Confirming understanding

What is stated

What is perceive

d

What is understo

od

Meaning is made in the reply

The user creates meaning with you

The user takes action with you

What is stated

What is perceive

d

What is understo

od

What is done

Humans are socialWe act mutually

More sensesMore meanings

New futures

SUBSTITUTIONBeing diverse

Neuroplasticity

Accessibility

US Army

USArmy

Umwelt

Augmentation

But…

…it doesn’t always work

Why?

Emotions

EMOTIONSUnderstand what you feel

What is stated

What is perceive

d

What is understo

od

What is done

What is stated

What is perceive

d

What is felt

What is understo

od

What is done

Emotion coats sensory experience

Emotion enables action

Emotion constricts cognition

To act but not to act well

AUGMENTATIONBecoming more

Substitution shows Augmentation is possible

Augmentation is realbut success is hard

Technology is necessary

Emotion is important

Diversity is essential

Augmentation is already visible in diversity

Neurodiversity

Deep Learning

To be morethanhuman

To be more

human

To be more

humane

ThankYou

Alastair@acuity_desig

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