sketching smart things: user experience design of ubiquitous computing devices

Mike KuniavskyBayCHI

February 12, 2008

Sketching Smart Things

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Source: Intel

1989: $90033MHz, 20MIPS

2007: $0.5320MHz, 20MIPS

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‘Applianceness’ [is] the set of properties that guide the design process towards simple, helpful devices that exploit the potential of embedded information technology in everyday things.

- Bill Sharpe, Information Appliances: an introduction, 2001

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Scale Label Examples1 cm covert RFID, nail polish, cochlear implant10 cm mobile phone handset, portable media player, wallet1 m personal chair, car, ATM, payphone, laptop10 m environmental wall, door, chandelier100 m architectural church clock, billboard, bus1000 m urban street intersection, landmark, crowd

(Jim Dine, Untitled from Ten Winter Tools, 1973)

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