sensory design at link festival 2016
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SENSORY DESIGNOn designing for senses, meaning
emotion and augmentation
Code of conduct
Code of conversation
Alastair@acuity_desig
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Sensory design projects
Usability
SENSESUnderstand yourself
A moment
Senses Acts
What is perceive
d
What is understo
od
Lego for design
Sensory design is part of foundation
Senses
TouchSmellTasteSight
Hearing
TouchSmellTasteSight
Hearing
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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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