Download - 2014 11-24 wearables why poetry matters
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Rikke Koch, Senior Concept Developer / Wearables, The Alexandra Institute
Wearables: Why Poetry Matters
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• Background: – Smart textiles
• State-of-the-art – Product concept – Communication / Interaction
• Why poetry matters – Context: How should the technology blend into your life? – Communication: Are all numbers understandable? – Product
• Concluding
Agenda
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• Climate Dress, UV Dress, Solarbag, Memory Bag, Magic Shirt etc.
• The Hammock, Life Saving Textiles • Project Management, concept
development, user studies • Frame: understanding and designing
the communication / interaction.
Background: Smart Textiles
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• Concept: – When to get out of the sun – Information given in context – A fluid/organic/poetic communication
form
• Hardware: – Light sensitive sensor, micromotors,
small PCB
Background: UV Dress
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• Concept: – Private life logistics
• Interaction design: – Input: Movement, caressing – Output: vibration, blinking diode
• Poetry, communication
Background: Memory Bag
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• Everybody wants a wristband: FitBit, Fuelband, Jawbone, LifeBand, Moov, etc.
State-of-the-art: Product design
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• Mostly measured? – Activity: steps, distances, acceleration etc – Bio: Pulse, sleep
• Combinations • Added manual input from user • Often communicated:
– Pulse: 85 – 7000 steps – Slept 7 hours, woke 3 times
• Need for analysed data • What does the user want to know?
State-of-the-art: concept+communication
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• Everybody wants jewels • Sesame Ring, RFID, Singapore
+Boston • NFC Ring, lock phone/door,
exchange information • June bracelet, UV-exposure and
recommendations (many domains of knowledge: skin health, jewelry, it, who sells this?)
• Misfit Shine, activity tracking
…..maybee a change in product concept
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• Goal is: self initiated change of habbits • We must look towards research in
mechanisms of behavioural change • For now products have a more or less
crude communication style • Which kind of understanding of the body
and the daily life does this represent? • Do you want to know when your living
right / wrong? • Do we really want this type of perfection? • Could we use ideas like nudging on this
field also?
But still not in communication style
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• Context – integrated in our lives – Lives and goals are different
• Users – changing habbits is delicate • Products – the opportunity for
something really beautifull and truly integrated is here.
Why a poetic approach?
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• Training for children with hemiparesis integrated in daily activities
• Correcting posture • They still should be able to focus
while attending school, learning math etc.
• Communication should be subtle
Context: case – the magic shirt
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• Sun bathers are like alcoholics • Alcoholics+smokers added • Obviously people have fallen into
these habbits because they like it • They know it is unhealty • Will they want a gadget telling them to
stop? Will they buy it? • Maybe something more subtle
showing them their level of consumption
• Maybe something that can be ignored at will?
Usecases – UV, alcohol and cigaretes
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• Is it possible to communicate a healthy/unhealthy tendency without judging the lifestyle of the user?
• The need for poetry • Suggestions:
– Tactile – e.g. vibration, heat – Visual but rudimentary – e.g.
change of color, pattern, light – Teletouching
Communicating without judging
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• Vibration • When is tactile communication
preferable? – Sports where the hands should be
free – When we ought to know, but are
reluctant to look at the smartphone – e.g. to much UV-exposure, to little exercise during the day etc.
– When we want to show affection • We need to gather more
knowledge about how to communicate with rudimentary techniques
Communicating without judging
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• In the end all of this is also a question of which target group you have for your product
• We will always have gadget freaks and sports enthusiasts finding every measurable number relevant
• For other target groups there is a need for analysed data delivered in a format focusing on the needs of the users
Conclusion
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• Rikke Koch Senior Concept Developer / Wearables The Alexandra Institute Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 5B08 2300 Copenhagen S E: [email protected] M: +45 2126 8724 W: alexandra.dk
Contact
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Thanks for your attention