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Calm Technology and the Future of ARAmber Case | @caseorganic
{Research Fellow} Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Center for Civic Media @ MIT Media LabAR in Action | 17 Jan 2017 | MIT Media Labcaseorganic.com / calmtech.com
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50 billion devices will be online by 2020. -Cisco
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An era of interruptive technology
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We need a Calm Technology
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XEROX PARC: mid-90sMark Weiser John Seeley Brown
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“A good tool is an invisible tool. By invisible, we mean that the tool does not intrude on your consciousness; you focus on the task, not the tool.” Mark Weiser -- 1993
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Designing Calm Technology
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I. Technology shouldn’t require all of our attention, just some of it, and only when necessary
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A Tea Kettle
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II. Technology should empower the periphery
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LUMOBack Smart Posture Sensor
Buzzes you when you
exhibit poor posture.
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Haptic Compass Belt
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III. Technology should inform and encalm
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Weather Status Lighting
Hue Lightbulb connected to a weather report
Aaron Parecki@aaronpk 2014
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Synesthetic Media: transform one sense into another
See temperature
Color as augmentation
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V. Technology can communicate,but it doesn’t need to speak
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The Roomba Robotic Vacuum Cleaner
:)
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VI. Technology should consider social norms
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VII. The right amount of technology is the minimum amount to solve the problem
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Street Lights Toilet Occupied Sign
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VIII. Technology should make use of the near and the far
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Evolution of computers over time
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Process as much as possible on the device itself.
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Good design allows people to accomplish their goals in the least amount of moves
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Calm Technology allows people to accomplish the same goals with the least amount of mental cost
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The scarce resource in the 21st Century will not be technology.It will be attention. - Mark Weiser
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A person's primary task should not be computing, but being human.
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Self-Portrait of Steve Mann with Wearable Computing Apparatus 1981.
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PersistentPaleontolog
y
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caseorganic.comDiminished Reality vs. Augmented Reality
caseorganic.comAdblock: Image recognition, processing and replacement.
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Collaborative Reality
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Remember the MilkContextual Notification Systems
Virtual Post-It Notes with Image Processing1995
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Virtual Factory Replication (PTC + Vuforia)
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AR & Projected Displays
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Augmented Reality Sandbox
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Communication Design Group& Ambient Media
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Projected Displays as AR (Alan Kay, Bret Victor @worrydream, Glen C. SF)
Communication Design Group
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Bookshelf (@worrydream)
Communication Design Group
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Thank you!Amber Case @caseorganic
Slides! Slideshare.net/caseorganic
