Furniture is the infrastructure for human activity and interaction. New digital technologies are augmenting everyday gestures like opening cabinets and drawers, relaxing, and throwing out trash. Several concepts were presented that integrate digital features into furniture to enhance interactions and share information, including a Skype cabinet for video calls, a Facebook coffee table that displays relevant photos during conversations, an energy clock that provides energy usage feedback, a Pandora chair that selects music based on how the user is sitting, a Google Latitude doorbell that notifies when people are arriving home, and an Amazon trash can that automatically reorders items when they are thrown away.
Furniture is the infrastructure for human activity. Every day we sit down at the breakfast table, settle into our desk chairs, open cabinets and drawers, and fall into bed. How can digital technology augment these everyday rituals in subtle, natural and delightful ways?
Juicy Feedback Loops
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Furniture is the infrastructure for human activity. Every day we sit down at the breakfast table, settle into our desk chairs, open cabinets and drawers, and fall into bed. How can digital technology augment these everyday rituals in subtle, natural and delightful ways?
Juicy Feedback Loops
The term “juicy feedback” comes from game design where a small action produces a surprisingly large reaction. David will present six design principles that anyone can use to motivate healthy behavior. Using these principles his company, Vitality, created a wireless pill cap which is helping people take their daily medications over 90% of the time (from a baseline of 70%). David will also present a framework for tailoring behavioral change programs to offer each person an optimal mix of social feedback, reminders, accountability, education, and financial incentives.
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CityHome presents a vision for a transformable 15'x15' apartment, that transforms into an awesome space for sleeping, lounging, hosting dinner parties, exercise studio, home office, or movie theater. Furniture for each activity is stowed in thickened walls, floor and ceiling with a gantry system. Finally, we consider the role that common spaces can play in a building of city-homes.
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I was asked last week to speak in a class at MIT on entrepreneurship. Rather than a self congratulatory parade through past products and companies that I’m most proud of, I gave the talk that I wished someone had given when I was a student 20 years ago at HBS taking a course on entrepreneurship. In that course I remember meeting Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin who came in to give us his simple self-aggrandizing recipe for success (passion + persistence, bla bla bla). It’s humble to talk about your mistakes, but hopefully more useful. And slightly cathartic…
I'm often asked how businesses are using computer vision today. Here is a sampling of use-cases organized by industry. Ditto specializes in the ability to quickly train new classifiers for clients. For example specific hair styles, car types, tattoos, flags and even subjective tags like fashionable, romantic, or luxurious. What are you interested in finding in photos? There are 3.2 billion shared on social media every day!
A short keynote tracing the roots of 19th C. Utopian communities to 10 ideas for rethinking transportation, housing, sharing, shopping, sports, food, work, and more. These concepts have the power to reconfigure our urban and domestic spaces, and land use.
The combination of photo-sharing and image recognition is revolutionizing marketing. Learn how these technologies create new opportunities for product companies, disrupt retail, and enable social commerce.
A short presentation to the London Internet of Things community with long-time collaborator Chris McRobbie. We spoke about designing the Ambient Orb and other products, and offered a preview of my book Enchanted Objects. The periodic table of Enchanted Objects organizes products by human desires and helps innovators prioritize what to build next.
Introducing Ditto, a photo analytics tool for brandsDavid Rose
Using computer vision and hundreds of high-powered
servers, Ditto identifies when, where and how people
use products. Now, for the first time, marketers can take advantage of the exploding visual web.
CityHome presents a vision for a transformable 15'x15' apartment, that transforms into an awesome space for sleeping, lounging, hosting dinner parties, exercise studio, home office, or movie theater. Furniture for each activity is stowed in thickened walls, floor and ceiling with a gantry system. Finally, we consider the role that common spaces can play in a building of city-homes.
Enchanted Objects: The next wave of the webDavid Rose
What can Snow White’s magic mirror, Wonder Woman’s lasso, Frodo’s sword, and runic amulets teach us about next generation Internet technologies? Using the metaphors of magic I attempt to explain the growing trend of embedded computing that is sweeping over consumer electronics, healthcare, travel, and media.
20 years 20 mistakes I've made as an entrepreneurDavid Rose
I was asked last week to speak in a class at MIT on entrepreneurship. Rather than a self congratulatory parade through past products and companies that I’m most proud of, I gave the talk that I wished someone had given when I was a student 20 years ago at HBS taking a course on entrepreneurship. In that course I remember meeting Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin who came in to give us his simple self-aggrandizing recipe for success (passion + persistence, bla bla bla). It’s humble to talk about your mistakes, but hopefully more useful. And slightly cathartic…
1. Furniture is the infrastructure for human
activity. Every day we open cabinets
and drawers, share a conversation
Ambient around a coffee table, relax into a
Furniture lounge chair, and toss out trash. How
can digital technology augment these
gestures in subtle and delightful ways?
3. Skype Cabinet Proximity sensor shows
when the other person
The Skype Cabinet is always on. No more is nearby and door
setup, log-ins, bad lighting, or headphones. illuminates. Just open the
Each cabinet is a dedicated portal cabinet to begin the
Positioned video conversation.
between you and your closest friends
at child’s
or family.
eye level
Place it wherever you live most and
assign a space to everyone you know.
The translucent doors glow when your
friends are nearby, and you can open the
cabinet to start a conversation. With
crystal clear sound and perfect lighting, Lights softly illuminate High quality
you can share a special moment or just the face of the user microphone
hang out together. Eye-level web camera
captures through
Eye to eye interaction
one-way mirror
One-way mirror
Display
5. FaceBook Coffee Table This coffee table recognizes topics
of conversation in the room with voice
Like an instant photo album, the Facebook recognition, then displays photos of
Coffee Table shows your digital photos people and places from each person’s
right when you want them most. Real-time FaceBook account to complement
speech analysis understands keywords the conversation. “ Newheaded to
I’m
York City
Smartphone activates
feature then photos leak
from your conversation and pulls up on Tuesday. ”
out onto table.
relevant Facebook feed photos while you're
talking. Imagine describing your latest trip Microphones
set in table VOICE
to the Rockies, and photos from the trip
fade up to complement the conversation.
7. Energy Clock Separate segments illuminate
When you're serious about saving energy a to display over- or under-spending
monthly bill doesn't cut it. The energy clock
gives you real-time, instant feedback on
your household energy consumption. Under-spending
It learns your energy consumption habits, by 1 hour
then gives you subtle feedback on how
you're tracking against yourself.
Sometimes a gentle reminder is all it takes
to make a difference!
Over-spending
by 3 hours
The time is 2pm, but
you’ve used the energy
you typically use by 5pm.
Energy
Usage
2 pm 5 pm
Hours of the day
9. Your angle of recline selects
upbeat
upbeat
upbeat or mellow songs.
e e The direction you face
l in l in
r ec r ec selects your Pandora
Speakers embedded
in headrest. channels of different genres.
me m
llo ell
w ow
Spin for
next song
Your phone logs
you into Pandora.
classical R&B
pop jazz
Pandora Chair
We all need moments of relaxation and respite your seat rock'n'roll, or laid back lounge,
to recharge throughout the day. Just sit back the Pandora Chair plays the right tunes for
and reset your mood. Using the incline of your your mood.
chair as a guide, the chair selects from your
favorite Pandora stations. Whether it's edge of
11. Google Latitude VILLAGE
10 MILES FROM HOME :
Doorbell
Early evenings are always a little hectic,
but family planning just got a lot easier.
The Google Latitude Doorbell plays subtle
chimes to tell you when someone's on their
way, and getting home soon. Knowing NEIGHBORHOOD
that Mom’s ten minutes away lets you put 1 MILE AWAY:
the pasta on at exactly the right time.
Each person in the house has their own
signature chime.
STREET
0.1 MILE AWAY:
13. Audible feedback offers perspective, “ shipped all the
Coconut water As you toss or recycle, pause
to scan and it’s automatically
humor and helpful information. way from Asia?! ” re-ordered.
“Coconut all the
T
Water NU
GREEN “ Microbrew –
shipped CO
CO
AT
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”
Alright!
way from Asia! ” W
28
76
34
69
“Blueberry juice –
loaded with
“hmmm... third
box of Oreos
NUTRITION
antioxidants! ” this week? ”
VALUE
“Chewy granola “Out of season
strawberries –
bars, 20% off!”
very expensive! ” o
can to und
Kick the
Amazon Trash
Running out of something in the kitchen is a errand, from the hardware store to the
drag. Amazon Trash ends that problem forever. supermarket, and you'll never run out of
A bar code scanner zaps anything that needs anything again.
restocking on the way out. Lift the lid, pause to
scan, and then toss. Use it for every type of