Pervasive Computing
You're already knee deep in it
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By Rob Manson
twitter: @nambor
MOB-labs.com.au

Pervasive Computing
Space is collapsing

What does Pervasive mean?

What is Space?
What is space?

"The Internet revolution has barely started," says Weiser.
"It won't be done until everything is on the Web. Light switches,
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pagers, copiers, printers, as well as PCs, benefit from Web
connections.“
Mark Weiser 1996
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Mark Weiser – Xerox Parc

Information Architecture is born
(1970)

Mark Weiser – Person/World Distinction

Pervasive Computing
Space is collapsing

1. Distance between your devices & the network

1. Distance between your devices & the network

2. Time taken to connect & share

3. Distance between you and your devices

3. Distance between you and your devices

3. Distance between you and your devices

3. Distance between you and your devices

4. Number of steps between thought & action (activity)

5. Cost of each of these

Space is collapsing

Example 1. your mail

Example 2. sharing information

Example 3. sharing video

Nokia Series 40 phones
Ironically this is the
I i ll thi i th most common phone i
t h in
the world – yet it requires a ridiculous 4 steps:
1. Select "Options”
2. Select “Use detail”
3. Select “Web address”
4.
4 Select “Go to
Go to"
Nokia Series 60 phones
This user experience is significantly more
complex and requires at least 3 steps:
1.
1 Highlight the link
2. Select "Options”
3. Select “Open link"
Sony Ericsson
This interface is slightly more complex and
requires at least 2 steps:
1. Highlight link
2. Select "Open"
iPhone and Windows Mobile
This type of “direct manipulation” interface
couldn't be simpler. This requires only 1 step:
1. Tap the link
Example 4. opening a link on a mobile

The Business Model – Alex Osterwalder

The Business Model – MOB

Activity theory & distributed cognition

Design it into your model from the ground up

Example 1. mobile dashboards

Example 2. user engagement

Example 3. APIs and Open Data

Pervasive Computing
Space is collapsing

What will the future hold?

In 1962 Morton L. Heilig created VR

In 1965 Ivan Sutherland created HMD

In 1992 Tom Caudell coined the term AR

Since then AR has slowly been building

And now it is exploding

Computer Vision is growing too

Consumer eyeware collapses space

And that will collapse even further

Multiple perspectives will spread too...

Pervasive Computing
Space is collapsing

NOW!
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