The document discusses the speaker's experiences with various wearable devices including an Apple Watch, Samsung Gear S, and Hexoskin smart shirt for sleep tracking. Some key points made include that the Apple Watch notified the speaker to stand up while using the toilet, wearables may integrate into everyday objects like beds and furniture in the future, and challenges remain regarding user experience, battery life, and how data from wearables will be used and linked to other services. The speaker believes wearables will become more widely adopted when they are necessary to access certain services or for insurance and medical purposes.

1. “My Apple watch told me to
stand up as I sat down on the
toilet”
Maneesh Juneja
Mobile Creatives London meetup, 20th May 2015
@Maneeshjuneja

2. Disclosure
• I’m independent and have no commercial ties to any
of the organisations mentioned in this talk
• I’ve purchased everything with my own funds, apart
from the Hexoskin shirt which has been loaned to me
for testing

3. New rules: Please keep your phones AND
smartwatches on silent
The announcement on
my plane journey
failed to ask for
smartwatches to be
put in flight mode too

4. My (expensive) journey with wearables

5. The Apple watch – revolutionary?
No. It’s better because it streamlines & integrates all the features
I could navigate with Android Wear – July 2014
I had Opera mini web browser on my
Samsung Gear S in Nov 2014
Bpay wristband for contactless
payment – June 2014

6. The Apple watch – a sense of humour
As I sat down on the toilet
As I was sat in the car waiting
at a red traffic light
Lark is one of the most sarcastic apps

7. The Apple watch – it could be smarter
Arrived as I sat in a business meeting
The watch crashed and then
wouldn’t pair with the iPhone
After re-pairing, having to reinstall
apps on the watch takes a long time!

8. Wearables – a transition technology?
A few of the wearables I’ve tested for tracking my sleep

9. Sensors moving into existing objects

10. Sensors in our furniture?
Vitals signs data
sent from your bed
to your doctor
How does that
make YOU feel?
Source: Home Crux

11. Context based search
• Web is moving from “pull” to “push”
Source: Search Engine Land article

12. Infrastructure not designed for wearables
Downloaded boarding pass to my Apple watch
to use at Heathrow Terminal 5 in London.
Alas, the machine at the gate that scans
boarding passes only had a gap big enough
for a phone or paper boarding pass.
So I had to TAKE the watch off my wrist and
then scan it.

13. The role of language & design
Android Wear watch describes
notifications as ‘interruptions’
Android Wear notifications are sometimes more personal
than the Apple watch notifications due to use of photo

14. Can we trust the data
and what is linked to the data?
My sleep tracker recorded that I was in light sleep
when I was in bed watching a video on my phone
Some believe you won’t get insurance in 2020 without agreeing to
wear a wearable (Source: Swiss Re)

15. Wearables vs community/social structures
Is wearable technology how we cope with changes in society?
Source: Kent online article

16. Are wearables only for trivial problems?
Source: Wearables for good

17. Smart shirt & smart socks – what next?
Source: Sensoria smart socks & Hexoskin smart shirt

18. What’s the bottom line? Data from sleep from
my smart shirt
Opportunity for job creation – people & services to help consumers understand their data

19. Convergence
Medical
Consumer
Health
Sport/Fitness
Mobile
payment
Travel
Is it fashionable to wear?

20. Some areas for improvement in wearables
• User experience & existing infrastructure
• Don’t just copy the phone app to the watch app – think about use case
• Integration & ‘smart’ factor
• Charging/Battery life
• It’s an emerging market – less hype, more facts please

21. When will wearables take off?
• When we ‘have’ to wear them or when you can’t access services
without them
• Enterprise – use in corporate wellness programs or to monitor fatigue
in doctors & airline pilots etc.
• Insurance – health & life insurance – real time dynamic pricing of
premiums
• Medical care – if you don’t wear it, you don’t get free NHS anymore

22. For further reading – a few of my blog posts
• My review of the Apple watch & comparisons with the Gear S
• Are wearables & sensors going to limit our ability to make our
decisions?
• Sensors: What value do they add?
• My testing of a number of wearables that track sleep
• Test 1 – MS Band vs Hexoskin shirt
• Test 2 – Group test of 5 trackers
• Test 3 – Group test of ‘auto detect’ sleep trackers