Insertable Technology @ BuffConf Meetup Melbourne - 27th April 2017
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Over the last century the body has emerged as a platform for devices, including internal medical devices and wearable fitness monitors. Within the last decade individuals have begun voluntarily inserting non-medical devices into their bodies. What are people putting in their bodies and why? Are insertables the next thing? Kayla J Heffernan is a UX designer at SEEK who is also undertaking her PhD in interaction design at The University of Melbourne exploring a new category of device: insertables – devices that go in, through and underneath the skin.
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Insertable Technology @ BuffConf Meetup Melbourne - 27th April 2017
- 2. Who am I? • UX Designer @ SEEK • PhD Candidate the University of Melbourne @kaylajheffernan
- 3. Would you get a medical device implanted if a doctor recommended you should?
- 4. Implantable Medical Devices Luggable Wearable Implant @kaylajheffernan
- 5. Implantable Medical Devices @kaylajheffernan Luggable Wearable Implant
- 6. Implantable Medical Devices @kaylajheffernan Luggable Wearable Insertable
- 7. Implantable Medical Devices Luggable Wearable Implant @kaylajheffernan
- 8. Luggable > Wearable > Insertable @kaylajheffernan Luggable Wearable Implant
- 9. Luggable > Wearable > Insertable @kaylajheffernan Luggable insertableWearable
- 10. Would you get small device inserted with a needle for medicine delivery, instead of having to remember to take a tablet every day?
- 11. Contraceptives
- 14. So what are Insertables
- 15. @kaylajheffernan
- 16. @kaylajheffernan
- 17. @kaylajheffernan
- 18. @kaylajheffernan
- 19. @kaylajheffernan
- 21. Prior Work
- 22. @kaylajheffernan
- 23. “The possibility of ‘permanentimplacements’ of `tagging' devices on or in the body” –Dr. Alan Westin, 1967 @kaylajheffernan
- 24. –L. Mcmurchie1999 @kaylajheffernan “It’s not a big jump to say, ‘OK, you have a wearable, why not just embed the device”
- 25. –Peter Cohrane (x-BT), 2000 @kaylajheffernan “A day when chips are not just worn around the neck, but are actually implanted under a human’s skin”
- 26. –Holtz 2003 @kaylajheffernan “From a purely "rational" point of view, it would make sense to implant a small chip under the skin, rather than have it on a card that can easily be lost”
- 27. @kaylajheffernan –Cameron Miner (IBM) “If you have something with you all the time, you might as well be able to wear it.”
- 28. @kaylajheffernan –Me (2015) “A reasonable extension to this sentiment is that, ‘if you are wearing it all times, you might as insert it’.”
- 29. @kaylajheffernan –Andy Clark 2001 “Suchdiscussion is no longer hypothetical”
- 30. Human Exploration “I did not have a medical need” Warwick, 2003 @kaylajheffernan “It did things for me not against”
- 36. Loon Cup Smart menstrual cup @kaylajheffernan
- 37. BabyPod Music via the vagina @kaylajheffernan
- 38. Kinsa Smart Thermometer IoT rectal thermometer @kaylajheffernan
- 39. North Star IoT rectal thermometer @kaylajheffernan
- 40. @kaylajheffernan What else do people insert? • NFC and RFID microchips • Magnets • Bespoke devices
- 41. @kaylajheffernan Where do they put them
- 42. Microchips
- 43. Have you ever… • Forgotten your work or uni pass? • Forgotten your Myki or transit card? • Forgotten or lost your credit card? • Locked your keys inside your car? • Gotten locked out of your house? @kaylajheffernan
- 44. Have you ever • Forgotten your work or uni pass? • Forgotten your Myki or transit card? • Forgotten or lost your credit card? • Locked your keys inside your car? • Gotten locked out of your house? @kaylajheffernan
- 45. 3 tap check before leaving 1. Phone 2. Wallet 3. Keys @kaylajheffernan
- 46. RFID & NFC Microchips About the size of a grain of rice @kaylajheffernan
- 47. What do they use the devices for?
- 49. “ I was super-duper thankful that I went through this small tiny piece of pain for the guarantee that my key would be with me as long as I have my hand, which I’ve never ever forgotten. It only takes one or two times of making a bullshit trip that’s already too long and having to drive the whole way back home, or deal with it for the day, to make you realize like oh a small pinch and this is solved? Yeah, please give me the pinch.
- 50. RFID & NFC Chips @kaylajheffernan
- 51. @kaylajheffernan Storing & Sharing Info
- 52. “ It made everything easier, I didn’t have to type things in or interact with the interfaces, I just had to run my hand over my phone and I was on my way. ”
- 53. Magnets
- 55. Magnets – party tricks
- 56. “When I’m typing on my MacBook and someone is over my shoulder I can just move my finger [with the magnet] to the left of the tab key and it will shut off the screen, because that’s where the sensor is for the lid close”
- 57. “close [my] eyes and walk around a room, using only the magnet to guide”
- 58. “If I were to pick up the coil and put my magnetic finger in [someone’s] ear they can hear it as well” “He played Straight Out of Compton for me and I was like holy shit that’s awesome, Eazy-E is in my head”.
- 61. @kaylajheffernan
- 62. • “It is something that I could have at all times” • “I like the idea of having to live with the implant and experience that 24/7 not just selectively adding the wearable...with the extra sense at my leisure”. • “It wouldn’t be waterproof so you could use it in fewer circumstances” Truly always available
- 63. @kaylajheffernan “Because somebody has to figure it out sooner or later, and there’s definitely shit we don’t know. Why wait? I mean we have the technology, what we’re basically waiting around for is for people to be less squeamish. They’re not going to get less squeamish unless we start doing it. That’s it; it’s the only reason, because it’s time
- 64. Extending Human Function @kaylajheffernan “I’m not satisfied with the purely biological body. I want to basically have more functional stuff and so [this] is just the very first step. It’s what’s currently available today, rather than just science fiction”.
- 65. @kaylajheffernan “It’s the next stage of human evolution. We should be able to enhance the senses that we have naturally instead of just improving senses when they’re not working as well as we’d like”
- 66. • Accessibility – Cannot physically forget them – Always stay with the user – Therefore are always available . • User Satisfaction – Frustration with managing wearables – Opted in – Benefits out weighed any pain or discomfort @kaylajheffernan “It really comes down to the fact that we have these things that we manage in the day - the Tamagotchi effect. We have keys, wallets or purses and our phone. You have to manage those things throughoutthe day. If you wear glasses then you have to manage them. If you have wearables that you put on and take off every day you.– make sure they’re charged and all that. I need a way to just understandit’s me and just let me in without needing to mange anything or having a wearable or any other additional devices. I wanted it to be seamless and invisible. You try and minimize the number of things you need to manage in the day because you don’t want to spend your time worrying about them”.
- 67. Katia Vega – RFID nails @kaylajheffernan
- 68. Clearing up some myths @kaylajheffernan
- 69. Clearing up some myths @kaylajheffernan
- 70. Clearing up some myths @kaylajheffernan