25-11-2014 Week of wearables http://www.infinit.dk/dk/hvad_kan_vi_goere_for_dig/viden/reportager/var-det-ogsaa-godt-for-dig-smartphone.htm

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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: rikke.koch@alexandra.dk
M: +45 2126 8724
W: alexandra.dk
Contact
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Thanks for your attention