The Web in the World
Track: Design & User Experience
Tags Design & User Experience, Development
In the same way as the web is quickly extending onto the mobile platform, we are starting to see the web moving further into the physical world. Many emerging technologies are beginning to offer physical-world inputs and outputs; multi-touch iPhones, gestural Wii controllers, RFID-driven museum interfaces, QR-coded magazines and GPS-enabled mobile phones.
These technologies have been used to create very useful services that interact with the web such as Plazes, Nokia Sports Tracker, Wattson, Tikitag and Nike Plus. But the technologies themselves often overshadow the user-experience and so far designers haven’t had language or patterns to express new ideas for these interfaces.
This talk will focus on a number of design directions for new physical interfaces. We will discuss various ideas around presence, location, context awareness, peripheral interaction as well as haptics and tangible interfaces. How do these interactions work with the web? What are the potentials and problems, and what kinds of design approaches are needed?
Comments
Brilliant - totally inspiring and very well-presented, thanks! Some real, touchable examples would contribute to this talk.
excellent presentation ... made me want to go on the server warning ambient light ... sooner or later computers will be in anything... once that is the case they are gone... everywhere in this case means nowhere... very inspiring!!!
thanks for speaking!
Very inspiring presentation. When people ask me afterwards what the web 2.0 expo was all about, I absolutely tell them about this inspiring presentation. Just the simple picture of the box that vibrates when you turn to the north keeps me thinking and wondering and smiling about web 3.0.
Unfortunately I didn't see the presentation. Sounds very interesting! For many of the services which were introduced at the Web2Ex, the enablement regarding their mobile usage was self-evident, albeit mostly not with real location awareness.
Meet & Greet Mobile Lifestyle 3.0: The location based information spaces of the Web 3.0 turn the whole world into a three-dimensional interaction space which is not based on the current position of a mouse, but the current position of the interacting user. Virtual applications are turned into mobile lifestyle.
Being a trend scout and media artist I have been engaged in this matter for years. I just created a gadget with which we could reflect upon this paradigm shift. We should do this together! After all: the user-centered media cultures of the Web 3.0 don’t just create more virtual possibilities; they also create new economic, cultural and social realities that have to be designed co-creatively and with social acuity.
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I found it very insightful, and I am still inspired by the notion that these new technologies provide a wonderful pallet for the world's most creative minds.
A box that vibrates every time you turn north - now that would be an even better give-away =).
Great presentation - I really liked the examples.
I guess this is becoming an increasingly important area - not only in research but in general biz environments.
What I am worried about, though, is the amount of attention connected objects are bound to steal from us in the future. How do we shield ourselves from that?
Can we make all these devices aware of our current mood and status? An attention shielding layer will surely be needed at some point if things progress quickly, eps. as a marketing tool.