As we continue to stitch our physical world together with digital information, context is becoming harder to manage and understand. Everything we do or buy is potentially connected to everything else, complicating the meaning of our everyday actions. How do we insure that the networked "things" we put into the world make sense as part a human environment? The answers have less to do with the devices we make than with the way people perceive and comprehend their surroundings.
Using everyday examples and practical models, this talk shows how we can figure out the contextual angles underlying the experiences of your product's or service's users and customers.
By 2017 the Internet of Things market will be bigger than the PC, tablet and phone market combined. This report explains what the Internet of Things actually is and the impact it will have on social.
The Social Life of the Internet of ThingsStephen Cox
What can social sciences tell us about designing for the internet of things (IOT)?
Imagine if you will that you have just discovered that some of your devices responsible for maintaining your health and wellbeing have been lying to you… They did it with good intentions; your scales were faking your weight loss and were in cahoots with your blood pressure monitor and step counter. They saw how happy you were when you felt like you were making progress so they decided to “help you” get to your goals faster.
Your phone let you in on their little secret. What would you do? Ditch your phone? Reward your phone for dobbing them in? Get them all out of your life and start again, with dumb objects?
Worse still, as a UX designer how are you going to deal with having to design for a world in which your products, objects and services will collaborate, communicate and share with each other. How can you create systems that not only react to human needs, but also potentially shape the behaviours of the people who are using them?
The Internet of Things will radically transform the ways we interact with our world and control our surroundings.
iMinds insights is a quarterly publication providing you with relevant tech updates based on interviews with academic and industry experts. iMinds is a digital research center and incubator based in Belgium.
By 2017 the Internet of Things market will be bigger than the PC, tablet and phone market combined. This report explains what the Internet of Things actually is and the impact it will have on social.
The Social Life of the Internet of ThingsStephen Cox
What can social sciences tell us about designing for the internet of things (IOT)?
Imagine if you will that you have just discovered that some of your devices responsible for maintaining your health and wellbeing have been lying to you… They did it with good intentions; your scales were faking your weight loss and were in cahoots with your blood pressure monitor and step counter. They saw how happy you were when you felt like you were making progress so they decided to “help you” get to your goals faster.
Your phone let you in on their little secret. What would you do? Ditch your phone? Reward your phone for dobbing them in? Get them all out of your life and start again, with dumb objects?
Worse still, as a UX designer how are you going to deal with having to design for a world in which your products, objects and services will collaborate, communicate and share with each other. How can you create systems that not only react to human needs, but also potentially shape the behaviours of the people who are using them?
The Internet of Things will radically transform the ways we interact with our world and control our surroundings.
iMinds insights is a quarterly publication providing you with relevant tech updates based on interviews with academic and industry experts. iMinds is a digital research center and incubator based in Belgium.
As an introduction to the different aspects of the Internet of Things, this presentation covers everything from terminology and history to applications and explanation of different layers of IoT.
This was presented on July 27th 2016 at Monenco Iran.
We are currently living in times of great transformation. We have over the last couple of decade seen the Internet become the most powerful disrupting force in the world, connecting everyone and transforming businesses. Now everyday objects - things we use are getting smart with sensors and software. And they are connecting. What does this mean?
We will see the world become alive. Cars will talk to road sensors that talk to systems that guide traffic. Plants will talk to weather systems that talk to scientists that research climate change. Farming fields will talk to the farming system that talks to robots that do fertilising and harvesting. Home appliances like refrigerators, ovens, coffee machines and microwaves ovens will talk to the home food and cooking system that will inform the store that you are running out butter, cheese, laundry detergent and coffee beans, which will inform the robot driver to get this to your house after consulting your calendar upon when someone is at home.
In this lecture we explore the Internet of Things, IoT.
Public version of my presentation slide as guess lecturer at Politeknik Telkom, Bandung, May 4, 2013, discussing about "Internet of Things" Feel free to comment and/or download
50 Connected Devices - How Mobile and the Internet of Things Will Affect YouApteligent
What happens when everything we touch is connected to the Internet? Welcome to the Internet of Things (IoT). At Crittercism, we live and breathe mobile. Browse this presentation to learn about the connected devices all around you – in your pocket, on your kitchen counter, in your backyard.
Want to learn more about how Crittercism can help your connected devices and IoT strategy? Visit http://bit.ly/OptimizeIoT today
This is a presentation on topic Internet Of Things, popularly known as IOT which includes its history, its growing popularity with the world and also the technologies that use IOT Technology.
Monthly Newsletter
The VOICE is a monthly newsletter, published by the management of Skylite Networks. This brings informational and educational material for our employees, friends and families. It serves the purpose of employee development and communication. Skylite Networks maintains its headquarters in Silicon Valley (Milpitas, California) with satellite offices in Rabwah, Accra & Lagos.
The most important technology industry trend right now is also the greatest source of new business opportunity. As 50 billion devices connect to the Internet globally, three different types of businesses are jockeying for position: Enablers of underlying technology, Engagers that deliver to customers, and Enhancers that devise value-added services unique to the Internet of Things. For more insights, visit www.strategy-business.com
Internet of Things (IoT) Past, Present, and FutureLosant
A look at the state of the Internet of Things in the world today. This includes a brief history of how the term came to be and how we got to our present place.
Today, in the world of IoT there are a number of industries that are taking advantage of the technology. This includes manufacturing, logistics, retail, and more.
Finally, this includes a brief description of Losant, https://losant.com. Losant is an IoT developer platform for building connected solutions.
This was originally presented to The Circuit in Cincinnati on May 19, 2016.
The Internet of Things, also called The Internet of Objects, refers to a wireless network between objects.
By embedding short-range mobile transceivers into a wide array of additional gadgets and everyday items, enabling new forms of communication between people and things, and between things themselves.
Internet of Things B2B market study 2016Yoann Kolnik
Internet of things 2016 market study. Designed for companies that expect to take part in the IoT revolution, accelerate growth and leave competition behind
IoT refers to the connection of everyday objects to the Internet and to one another, with the goal being to provide users with smarter, more efficient experiences.
Internet of Things by innocent chukwunonyerem website solution developer afrihubJOHN INNOCENT
The Future is the Internet of Things.. you are either in or out..
Most of the Experts are experts on existing things.. try becoming an expert of things that will be.. An expert of the Future!
A look at what is the Internet of Things from the minds at https://losant.com
Truly, it's all about adding value to your life, business, and customers.
Gartner projects more than 20 billion connected IoT devices by end of 2020, http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3165317.
My exact definition is:
The Internet of Things Is a term that represents a collection of ideas, devices, and processes.
Each thing is represented by a device or sensor.
These things are usually working together to create larger solutions by sending and reacting to data from an eco-system.
As an introduction to the different aspects of the Internet of Things, this presentation covers everything from terminology and history to applications and explanation of different layers of IoT.
This was presented on July 27th 2016 at Monenco Iran.
We are currently living in times of great transformation. We have over the last couple of decade seen the Internet become the most powerful disrupting force in the world, connecting everyone and transforming businesses. Now everyday objects - things we use are getting smart with sensors and software. And they are connecting. What does this mean?
We will see the world become alive. Cars will talk to road sensors that talk to systems that guide traffic. Plants will talk to weather systems that talk to scientists that research climate change. Farming fields will talk to the farming system that talks to robots that do fertilising and harvesting. Home appliances like refrigerators, ovens, coffee machines and microwaves ovens will talk to the home food and cooking system that will inform the store that you are running out butter, cheese, laundry detergent and coffee beans, which will inform the robot driver to get this to your house after consulting your calendar upon when someone is at home.
In this lecture we explore the Internet of Things, IoT.
Public version of my presentation slide as guess lecturer at Politeknik Telkom, Bandung, May 4, 2013, discussing about "Internet of Things" Feel free to comment and/or download
50 Connected Devices - How Mobile and the Internet of Things Will Affect YouApteligent
What happens when everything we touch is connected to the Internet? Welcome to the Internet of Things (IoT). At Crittercism, we live and breathe mobile. Browse this presentation to learn about the connected devices all around you – in your pocket, on your kitchen counter, in your backyard.
Want to learn more about how Crittercism can help your connected devices and IoT strategy? Visit http://bit.ly/OptimizeIoT today
This is a presentation on topic Internet Of Things, popularly known as IOT which includes its history, its growing popularity with the world and also the technologies that use IOT Technology.
Monthly Newsletter
The VOICE is a monthly newsletter, published by the management of Skylite Networks. This brings informational and educational material for our employees, friends and families. It serves the purpose of employee development and communication. Skylite Networks maintains its headquarters in Silicon Valley (Milpitas, California) with satellite offices in Rabwah, Accra & Lagos.
The most important technology industry trend right now is also the greatest source of new business opportunity. As 50 billion devices connect to the Internet globally, three different types of businesses are jockeying for position: Enablers of underlying technology, Engagers that deliver to customers, and Enhancers that devise value-added services unique to the Internet of Things. For more insights, visit www.strategy-business.com
Internet of Things (IoT) Past, Present, and FutureLosant
A look at the state of the Internet of Things in the world today. This includes a brief history of how the term came to be and how we got to our present place.
Today, in the world of IoT there are a number of industries that are taking advantage of the technology. This includes manufacturing, logistics, retail, and more.
Finally, this includes a brief description of Losant, https://losant.com. Losant is an IoT developer platform for building connected solutions.
This was originally presented to The Circuit in Cincinnati on May 19, 2016.
The Internet of Things, also called The Internet of Objects, refers to a wireless network between objects.
By embedding short-range mobile transceivers into a wide array of additional gadgets and everyday items, enabling new forms of communication between people and things, and between things themselves.
Internet of Things B2B market study 2016Yoann Kolnik
Internet of things 2016 market study. Designed for companies that expect to take part in the IoT revolution, accelerate growth and leave competition behind
IoT refers to the connection of everyday objects to the Internet and to one another, with the goal being to provide users with smarter, more efficient experiences.
Internet of Things by innocent chukwunonyerem website solution developer afrihubJOHN INNOCENT
The Future is the Internet of Things.. you are either in or out..
Most of the Experts are experts on existing things.. try becoming an expert of things that will be.. An expert of the Future!
A look at what is the Internet of Things from the minds at https://losant.com
Truly, it's all about adding value to your life, business, and customers.
Gartner projects more than 20 billion connected IoT devices by end of 2020, http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3165317.
My exact definition is:
The Internet of Things Is a term that represents a collection of ideas, devices, and processes.
Each thing is represented by a device or sensor.
These things are usually working together to create larger solutions by sending and reacting to data from an eco-system.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Navigation (IA Conf 2019)Andrew Hinton
Much of what information architecture practice is expected to figure out is “the navigation.” But what if we’ve been oversimplifying the way we discuss, design, and deliver navigation — and what if that’s been the source of later pain for users and organizations for a really long time? This short talk makes the case that we’ve been conflating too many things into the rubric of “navigation”, explains how this bad habit has come to pass, and the challenges that have resulted. But fear not! We’ll also look at practical ways to overcome the problem in our own day to day work, as well as with stakeholders and team members.
As Giambattista Vico uttered centuries ago, "the truth, itself, is made." And, as humans, most of our truth is made with language. What does this mean for Information Architecture, and those who practice it? In this presentation, we will explore that question. First, we'll establish what sort of material language is, and then we'll look at how IA uses it to shape the human environment.
Andrew Hinton is an information architect at The Understanding Group, and the author of Understanding Context. Since the early 90s he’s worked with companies to make habitable, delightful environments out of information. Andrew lives in a weird little neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Online, he tweets at @inkblurt and keeps a bunch of links about Andrewt-hings at andrewhinton.com.
Social media link:
https://twitter.com/inkblurt
Context Design (beta2) World IA Day 2013Andrew Hinton
My talk for World IA Day 2013, based on a book I'm writing. This is another permutation, somewhat different from the first "beta" talk I did in the fall. More about book: http://inkblurt.com/contextbook/
My talk from Playful 11 in London where I argue we all might be cyborgs already. I talk about how we cognitively project ourselves to our surroundings and possessions, and why everything will be about software, designed behaviour and superpowers.
With increasing amount of intelligence imbued in everyday products, designing for and with that intelligence is turning into a matter of understanding not only the perspective of the person but the one of the product too. As these products leave the ‘lab’ and enter our daily lives, they will be inserted into situations which they may not understand and which may not understand them. As it happened with learning-thermostats misunderstandings, roombas attacking hair and self-driving cars misbehaving, more examples will show the need for new languages, tools, and interfaces for products that might have to be understood, trained, tamed, trusted and dealt with. In this talk, we will look at a different way of designing for and with intelligence. Looking in the murky in between today’s reality and the utopian full automated future and by jumping in between real prototypes and fictional scenarios, we will explore new interactions that will emerge in the attempt of domesticating intelligence in our everyday lives.
This is the PowerPoint of a lightning talk given by Amber Case (@caseorganic) at Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference in Portland, Oregon on Sept 4+5th.
NOTE: This was a 10-minute compressed presentation.
From Telephone to Tweetup: an abbreviated history of technology and social exchange
The invention of the telephone ushered in an era of ‘on-demand’ social connection. These conversations were freeing, but were still limited to location and time. As communication technology matured, telephones became detached from their cords and were allowed to travel with their users. This detachment from location allowed conversation to happen in more times and more places.
As the amount of time and space between nodes of connection decreased, the intersection of rapid news methods such as blogging, mobile technology, and chatrooms begin to merge. This convergence allowed dramatic increases in the ability to rapidly convey information to others. Instead of engaging with one person at a time, many are now capable of talking at once. No where is this more prevalent than on Twitter. It has found ways to connect communities, stave off suburban isolation, and warn of earthquakes before medical help can access them.
The distance between individual and community will continue to decrease, and those products and services which decrease the amount of time and space it takes to create an action will be the most successful. Actions and devices will become lighter and lighter, and the social will continue to become more and more mobile. The convergence of various technologies will result in rapid learning and communication never imagined before.
http://inverge.com/featured-speakers/amber-case/
Change. It's the one condition we all have to get used to, change itself.
In an online world of inter-connected devices which increasingly publish on our behalf the line between online and offline is blurring, where will this go, and how can we make the most of the endless advertising opportunities that this incessant change provides?
The world is in love with the "Internet of things" but we are using old tools to solve the problem. While we had no choice but to use native apps on our phones for this first generation of smart devices (e.g. Nest) it can't scale. If we believe in Moore's Law at all, we'll have hundreds if not thousands of these devices in our lives in a very short period of time. It just doesn't make sense to use apps as our primary interaction tool. The Physical Web is an approach to 'infuse' the web into physical objects so you can just walk up and use any device, on any platform, with just a single click.
Language is Infrastructure for InteractConf London 2014Andrew Hinton
I had the pleasure of speaking at Interact London in October 2014. I presented an updated version of this talk, which I originally gave at IA Summit earlier in the spring. The talk is based on content from my book, Understanding Context. You can read more about it at http://contextbook.com.
In this version, I have updated the way I'm talking about how language works as environment: instead of 'semantic affordance' I'm now calling it 'semantic function.' (Which is in keeping with how it's now being described in the book.)
Christian Titze, "Hello From the Other Side: Adapting the Agile Agency to Cli...WebVisions
Many agencies have become frustrated with over-specced sequential waterfall projects. Their inflexible methodologies have too often led to outcomes that didn’t realize their full potential. In contrast, agile methods like Scrum and Kanban have proven successful ways to build and run software. But how do you apply agile methods to the reality of an agency’s project based work? There are many challenges and the most crucial question is: what if our ideal work method and our clients’ realities don’t match?
Edenspiekermann have been working agile since 2009. They’ve since achieved terrific results and have never looked back. They now employ about as many developers as designers, creating meaningful digital products and services for global clients like Red Bull, Cisco Systems, The Economist and the German and Dutch Railways.
Christian will talk about the often challenging contrast between wanting to deliver the best possible product and making sure you’re satisfying the client’s internal project needs. How to deliver excellent customer satisfaction while working as agile as possible?
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Christian is the guy designers are ambivalent about. He’s not a font guy. He’s the business guy—the one who works the odd hours creating and maintaining relationships with some of the largest companies in the world. Over the past decade, he has led business development efforts for numerous agencies on three continents.
Anthropology is the study of humans past and present. Design is the skill of solving complex problems to create a better future. But can a discipline focused on the past/present merge with a discipline focused on the future? The answer is yes. Welcome to Design Anthropology 101.
Design anthropology converges two powerful fields that can push design beyond just “innovation”. In this talk, you’ll learn what design anthropology is and what it means for the future of design. Most importantly, you’ll walk away with a basic understanding of how to use ethnographic methodologies and collaboration to make products that push humanity forward.
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Amélie is a product designer at a small startup who combines her love for user experience and design anthropology to make great products. She made her first foray into design and development making Sailor Moon and DBZ websites. Don't be afraid to say hello (especially if you have food).
Nate Clinton, "Conversations with Machines"WebVisions
While drones deliver our purchases and cars drive themselves, there’s something special about the personal touch that only a one-on-one interaction with a human assistant can provide. It’s special because humans have expertise, empathy, and insight that robots lack. Unfortunately, the “concierge experience” is expensive to offer, and scales slowly. In this session, we’ll discuss how technology can help businesses leverage their experts to scale the concierge experience cheaply and effectively, without losing the human qualities that make it great.
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Nate is the Director of Strategy at Cooper. In his role, he blends the decisiveness and collaborative skills of a Product Manager with the acumen of an Economist to build bridges with people and organizations. Equal parts teacher and student, Nate leads initiatives in content creation, business development, and creative leadership.
Thomas Phinney, “Fonts. Everything is Changing. Again.”WebVisions
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the font-water.
On September 14th, representatives from Microsoft, Adobe, Apple and Google made a joint font announcement in Warsaw: OpenType 1.8 was unveiled, featuring variable fonts, a.k.a. OpenType Font Variations, based on an all-but forgotten Apple technology, GX Variations.
Variable fonts enable type designers to create fonts that have one or more design axes, such as weight or width. Use of a design axis frees designers; for example, if there is a weight axis, a designer is free to choose any arbitrary weight within the font's design space, not just a few pre-set weights.
Many type designers have long used such technology for font design, so there is a backlog of existing typefaces that could be adapted to this technology. But two previous axis-fonts technologies did not take off: Apple's GX/AAT Typography allowed it, and Adobe's Multiple Master did as well. Why should this be different?
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Thomas Phinney is President of FontLab, the font software tools company. Previously he was product manager for fonts and global typography at Adobe, and then senior product manager for Extensis. In the 2000s he was instrumental in driving the adoption of OpenType, both within Adobe and in the marketplace.
The lowly side project—you know that thing you do for fun when you have some downtime? The history of the Internet is rife with stories of side projects starting as innocent little ways to kill some time or scratch an itch only to turn into something much larger.
From Blogger to Flickr to Twitter to Slack, a lot of very popular services started out as small side projects before eclipsing the very thing they grew from. And they’re not just important for startups, they’re also vital to anyone working on the web today. Thanks to a plethora of self-directed learning sites, there’s not much stopping you from building anything you can dream as your next side project. In the end, they’re great ways for anyone to expand their skill set, build on their hobbies, and impress future employers.
It’s time for side projects to take center stage.
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Matt Haughey is a veteran of the Internet, starting from the first days of blogging when he created MetaFilter and later with his work on Blogger. He helped launch and design Creative Commons and most recently has helped Slack share their vision for making everyone's working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.
Kate Bingaman-Burt explores harnessing the power of accumulation and consumption through a system of rules to structure creative chaos. Commit to being a vigilant "Art Soldier" - keep making, keep moving.
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Kate Bingaman-Burt makes piles of work about the things that we buy (and want) and the emotions attached to our stuff. She also happily thinks and draws for good people and companies. She have been making work about consumption since 2002, teaching since 2004
“I don’t know” is certainly the most common answer I give to my clients’ questions. That may sound crazy, but I actually think it’s the smartest thing you can say as a freelancer. BUT I know how to find out, and when I do, I'll deliver them the most informed and creative answer they have ever heard. User surveys, forms, interviews, A/B testing, big shift and even street events, "I will explain how to combine the power of intuition with logic and reasoning to reach very significant results. Because after all, the biggest barriers to great work and creativity is not money, time or technical limitations but MENTAL obstacles.
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Adrien is a digital expert helping startups & advertising agencies to reach the highest summit focusing on UI & UX design, digital and marketing strategy. He's the Founder of Creatives Without Borders, design teacher, startups mentor & investor, he also writes articles about entrepreneurship, freelance and self development. He is currently based in New York City.
The Web is the largest public big data repository that humankind has created. In this overwhelming data ocean, we need to be aware of the quality and, in particular, of the biases that exist in this data. In the Web, biases also come from redundancy and spam, as well as from algorithms that we design to improve the user experience. This problem is further exacerbated by biases that are added by these algorithms, specially in the context of search and recommendation systems. They include selection and presentation bias in many forms, interaction bias, social bias, etc. We give several examples and their relation to sparsity and privacy, stressing the importance of the user context to avoid these biases.
What happens when the digital tools and platforms we make and use for communication and entertainment are hijacked for terrorism, violence against the vulnerable and nefarious transactions? What role do designers and developers play? Are we complicit as creators of these technologies and products? Should we police them or fight back? As Portfolio Lead for Northern Lab, Northern Trust's internal innovation startup focused on client and partner experience, Antonio will share a mix of provocative scenarios torn from today's headlines and compelling stories where activism and technology facilitated peace—and war.
As a call-to-action for designers and developers to engage in projects capable of transformational change, he'll explore the question: How might technology foster new experiences to better accelerate social activism and make the world a smarter, safer place?
Mike Monteiro, "This is the Golden Age of Design...and We're Screwed"WebVisions
Everywhere I look companies are hiring designers! Two hundred over here! A thousand over here! We need a lot of them and we need them fast. Finally! Companies have come to understand the importance of design in building successful products and services. Isn’t that great?
Mike gave his awesome keynote at WebVisions Portland on Thurs., May 19, 2016.
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Mike runs Mule Design Studio. It’s a nice place. They do good, quality work. He makes paintings with words on them. He picks fights with the Tea Party on Twitter. He lives in San Francisco with Erika Hall, his son Henry, and his dog Rupert.
Mark Wyner, "A New Dawn of the Human Experience"WebVisions
In what is being called the “third era of computing,” cognitive computing is revolutionizing the relationship between humans and computers. Internet of Things is only the beginning. Artificial Intelligence is finally sprouting out of science fiction and blossoming into palpable technology. Cognitive systems are able to learn independently, build upon pre-programmed knowledge, understand natural language, and interact with human beings with reasoning and logic.
In this session Mark will explore how, through the anthropomorphizing of machines, we are creating an environment of fabricated empathy that will change the human experience, and how we are asking machines to make ethical decisions that they’re grossly unprepared to do. He will also discuss why Artificial Intelligence won’t create an apocalypse of robots who take over the world. Maybe.
Mark's keynote was given at WebVisions Portland on Fri., May 20, 2016.
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Mark has been working as a creative professional and technologist for nearly twenty years, partnering with Fortune 100/500 companies and non-profits to craft meaningful experiences for digital UIs and ecosystems in new technologies. He shares his thoughts as an international speaker and writer.
Kevin Hoyt, "On the Verge of Genius: Smart Cities Workshop"WebVisions
(Kevin's workshop was given at WebVisions Portland on May 18, 2016)
Cross a WebVisions workshop with Bill Nye the Science Guy (or Mr. Wizard depending on your generation), and you will get IBM's Kevin Hoyt, leading you through an interactive, hands-on, exploration of the increasingly connected world of cities, farms, and you.
On this three-hour tour, the weather may just get rough, but smart cities with vast arrays of connected sensors will keep us on course and on time. Leaving the city behind, we will discover that data is the new fertilizer for the green acres of smart agriculture. The next stop on this fantastic voyage is inner space as we seek to leverage smart healthcare to unlock the secrets of heart disease and asthma.
This workshop is packed with live demonstrations of a large number of scientific sensors in action. The PH of your drinking water. The air quality of the conference center. The galvanic skin response (sweating) of the presenter. And many more. Having established the possibilities, you will have the option to spend an hour with your very own Internet-connected hardware. Solving the world's problems is hard work, but together we can achieve genius.
What You'll Learn:
How crowdsourcing social change and overcoming human bias in decision making, is leading to the rise of the machines;
How cities like Amsterdam and London are using the Internet of Things to protect personal property and save lives;
How companies like Harman and John Deere discovered the best user experience to keep up with population growth;
How the science of you may just be able to eradicate the world biggest health problems - if you let it;
Basic electronics, and how to connect a device of your own to an Internet of Things platform using Arduino.
Who Should Attend
If you think products like the Google Nest are cool, but are not sure what value they play in society, this workshop is for you. If you look at the emergence of self-driving cars, and wonder about the economic impact, this workshop is for you. If you enjoy gardening or farm-to-table food, and want to find out how to make that scale to a societal level, this workshop is for you. If you fear Skynet, this workshop is for you. If you picked up on any of the 60s, 70s, and 80s references in the overview, this workshop is for you. Or, if you just want to geek out with Internet-connected hardware, this workshop is for you.
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Kevin Hoyt is a Developer Advocate at IBM where he has been actively involved in furthering web technologies. He focuses on mobile application development, cloud services, and the Internet of Things.
Art has always had an uncomfortable relationship with commerce. Never more so than now that the bulk of the "creative class" is employed by the business sector in the service of selling products and increasing their bottom line. This has created a new, and often uncomfortable dynamic, where our work is now evaluated primarily for it's ability to affect consumers and sell a product and secondarily for its creative merit. These pressures have also made it difficult for our "art" to fulfill one of its essential functions -- provoke essential conversations/debates in society. This has in turn left many of us frequently feeling frustrated and unsatisfied by the work itself.
It wasn't always like this, but since we can't go back, we have to find the right way to move forward. Is there an alternative pathway where we can create for business, but still advocate for principles and ideals that we believe in through our work? How do we re-establish ourselves as an artist and assert our creative/cultural authority?
This session will explore all of the above, with a particular focus on the NYC market from a present day and historical perspective. As well as look at tactical ways to begin to advocate for this shift in your own work/business.
Too often we create brands, experiences, and content that sacrifice humanity on the altar of conversion optimization. In this session, we’ll explore how to make our products feel less like a business transaction and more like a conversation through human-oriented brand, marketing, and experience design.
Don’t worry, this won’t be a stern sermon about user personas or focus groups – Meagan knows that conference attendees are people too. Instead she’ll share some of the practical hows and whys of designing for people, not customers.
“Perhaps all interaction is about wanting and getting.” –David Mitchell
Drawing on her experience as Creative Director at SproutVideo, Meagan will share techniques that you can bring to your work to honor the humanity of users through happiness-driven design and content.
If the Design Process were a boy band, Feature Prioritization would never be the fan favorite with a breakout solo career. Prioritization isn’t sexy. It hurts to let go of the beloved features created during brainstorming. The decision-making design phase often involves negotiation and compromise in an uncomfortable social environment. Prioritization can be downright painful!
If only you could recapture the enthusiasm and creative glow of brainstorming. Well, wish no longer! Design fairy godmothers Carolyn Chandler and Anna van Slee are here to transform this pumpkin into a stage coach. Strap in!
Mind Melds and BattleBots: Creating the Right Kind of Designer/Developer DynamicWebVisions
Improving the designer/developer relationship is an ardent wish on a lot of project teams. And yet, a lot of excuses seem to be made for bad relationships between designers and developers… several of which are tied to when and how each are involved.
Do these sound familiar?
“There’s not enough budget to involve all members of the team from beginning to end.”
“We don’t want to limit designer creativity too soon by bringing tech into the process.”
“We don’t want to waste developer time at the beginning when there’s nothing fully defined yet.”
“If we design a detailed enough style guide, development should be able to implement without retaining a designer through implementation.”
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To preserve and reinforce humanness, Cousins hypothesizes that “…it might be fruitful to effect some sort of junction between the computer technologist and the poet.” And I agree. I propose we write poetry for the robots. What would happen if we created metaphorical metadata for an image bank? Would a search for ‘stars' return image of ‘eyes'?
At Poetry4Robots.com, we’ve made the experiment live. This ‘digital humanities experiment’ is being conducted by Neologic Labs, Webvisions, and Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination.
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
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1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
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The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
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Bob Boule
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Gopinath Rebala
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Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
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Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
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And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
1. FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS
Andrew Hinton / @inkblurt
WebVisions 2015 Chicago
UNDERSTANDING CONTEXT
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@inkblurt
@contextbook
by
(me)
Hi, I’m Andrew, and I wrote a book about context. And while I was researching and writing this, I did a lot of thinking about what contextual experience
means in a world filled with things that think for themselves and chatter among one another on the internet.
3. THE INTERNET OF
THINGS
This is a very popular phrase of late … but when we say Things, what do we mean by that?
4. 4
Rogue’s Gallery of IoT Gadgets!
Typically when people talk about the internet of things, they roll out a rogue’s gallery of IoT devices and gadgets….
But part of what I want to get across today is that we need to back up a bit and understand that we can’t really deal with the internet of things until we better understand things
that aren’t necessarily smart or networked.
5. 5
Context is largely about what actions mean in our environment. And that’s getting more complicated. Trying to use a bathroom has become a contextual conundrum. What works and how? We grew up using bathrooms without these
sensors, but now we have to re-learn every bathroom we enter.
We need a label with picture and words on a faucet to understand how to use it. The soap has to be supplemented with store-bought back-up, because it isn’t working or it has run out.
In fact, auto soap dispensers make no sense if you think through the full context of how people behave in bathrooms — we don’t touch the soap again after we’ve washed, so why automate it? Instead, these auto-dispensers often
mistakenly squirt all the soap out as we wash under the faucet. This is a failure of understanding how a system of things and the system of human behavior meet to create context.
6. THE INTERNET OF THINGS
IS LESS ABOUT THINGS
& MORE ABOUT
ENVIRONMENTS
If I learned anything about the IoT as I was learning about how people understand and create context, it’s this … the internet of things is really about environments, not just the
objects in the environment. The objects make no sense without the context of the whole.
7. 7
Affordance
James J Gibson
The potential the environment
offers for bodily action.
The guy who invented the concept of affordance — which we hear a lot about in design work — meant it as something a bit different than the way most folks mean it, and it was part of a
stunningly brilliant framework for understanding perception.
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Invariants
That which does not change
in the midst of change.
James J Gibson
A central idea in Gibson’s framework is what he calls Invariants.
Invariants are the parts of our environment that don’t change, in the midst of change. Things that persist — they don’t vary. The ground under our feet is an invariant — generally it’s always solid
and supports our weight, for example. We evolved the bodies and brains we have in part because of the invariant nature of the ground under us, the air around us, the way stone is solid and the
way water is fluid.
Gibson mainly discusses invariants that exist for nearly all creatures, not just humans. But he also touches on human-made environmental stuff.
Invariants are at the core of how we understand context. Because context is about the relationships between the elements of our environment — and we need stable elements to bring coherence
to all the rest that isn’t stable.
9. ENVIRONMENT
wikimedia
Invariants
Something I now base my work on entirely is the idea that we have to understand how humans comprehend a context like this, because it’s the foundation for how we
understand everything else we’ve put into the world since the earliest civilizations could build stone walls and wooden fences.
10. ENVIRONMENT
wikimedia
Built
Invariants
We build things depending on the invariant qualities of the materials, and we depend on the invariant quality of the resulting buildings to be stable enough that we can have
civilization — stuff doesn’t change that fast or easily, so we rely on it for our context, for living, working, running businesses, and everything else.
But also notice all the language in this scene… turns out language is a sort of built invariant too, because we put it in the environment as structure. But the way language is
invariant is different from physical stuff.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taipei_City_Nanyang_Street_20130127.jpg
11. Invariants
(Convention)
Walking up to the elevator at Midway Airport on my way to WebVisions, on the way down to the train, there are these signs that are evidently required to help people understand
where the elevator button is… we’ve been using elevators and buttons for over a century, yet these things still require mediation and explanation, just so people understand
what their environment does. These are invariants based on social convention, not physics.
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“elevator”
“button”
over a century of
cultural invariant
convention
context
There’s at least a century of cultural convention that we can take for granted when we put a sign saying ‘elevator button’ on something — and give people a button to push.
And the signs and the button aren’t usually going to change or disappear. I bring this up to emphasize how something as simple as a button on an elevator depends on tons of
context in order to make sense for a user.
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Words
Pictures
Symbols …
Language as
environment.
We’ve gotten used to having lots of invariant semantic information in our environment — we depend on it to keep everything running right. Language acts
as a sort of environmental infrastructure in this way.
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VARIANT!
But what happens when these things change? This is a speed limit sign in Atlanta, where they’ve installed digital signs that can change the speed limit at any time during the
day. What used to take physical effort, and even legislation to change the speed limit for an interstate highway, is now highly variant. This is a mundane ‘thing’ on the internet,
so to speak — it’s networked to a central office and changed either manually or by algorithm — actually, drivers have no idea what is behind the changes, other than assuming it
is altered based on traffic needs.
15. wikimedia
Not just variant,
but invisible.
Our landscapes are being saturated in these changing, variant parts of our infrastructure. And not only are they changing in visible ways, they’re mostly changing in invisible
ways.
16. APPROXIMATE INCREASE IN ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLEXITY OVER TIME*
Complexity
added to human
environment
No big whoop.
OMG PLEASE
MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!
What’s complexity?
We’re so modern!
Learn a new app? Uh. Ok.
I have no idea what my
phone is doing.
I have no idea what my
house is doing.
Time
Olden times Fin de siècle
* according to Andrew Hinton’s feelings on the subject.
Industrial
Revolution
“Information Age” 21st Century
According to my empirical measurement of my own personal feelings, complexity is hitting an extreme upward curve in our world. Humans are creating so many new parts of
our environment that do not behave the way everything has always behaved, that we are entering an unmapped territory.
The sort of territory that ancient mapmakers marked with pictures of sea monsters.
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wikimedia
Interface
(Machine to Machine)
When the term “interface” came into usage in technology, it was about interfacing machines to machines. The humans who had to use the machines needed a way to “interface”
as well — and much to engineers’ annoyance, we don’t have a 25 pin standardized plug. We’re messier and more nuanced creatures.
18. 18
Interface
(Machine to Human)
So we needed ways to let people tell things to computers. Some folks like to say that we’re getting away from having to have input mechanisms like this, and that we need to
make systems with “no UI” — but there’s no such thing as “no UI” — there will always need to be an interface.
19. THERE’S NO SUCH
THING AS “NO UI”
LANGUAGE IS THE
INTERFACE W/ IOT
We’re wanting our internet of things to understand the way we behave and talk “naturally” but that’s still language. And teaching them how to do this is very very difficult.
20. 20
Understanding Context, Andrew Hinton, O’Reilly Media 2014
But we’re still not always very good about translating between the digital things in our lives and regular people. Even for simple everyday devices like a gas pump.
21. 21
Remember back in the day when the Palm Pilot was a thing, and everyone who used one had to learn a new writing standard called Graffiti.
It was a well-designed alphabet for meeting the machine half way. The thing is, written language is already code — it’s encoded speech — so writing itself is very close to what
computers more easily comprehend, at least as input, but handwriting is too nuanced and “variant” for computers — even now — so standardizing how you make letters means
you’re making special marks that the computer can understand.
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https://www.google.com/patents/US8558759
In the ensuing years, we’ve been trying to get even more sophisticated with the way we make signifiers to digital systems embedded in our environment. Like this “heart” gesture
that Google patented.
23. THE “THINGS” ARE
LISTENING
& EAGER TO ACT
We’re wanting our internet of things to understand the way we behave and talk “naturally” but that’s still language. And teaching them how to do this is very very difficult.
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Captured from Twitter on September 22, 2015
The thing is, though, that we do things in our environment all the time that we assume will have only one meaning, because that’s the context we’ve always had. But digital
agents in our midst are now listening and reacting and making decisions based on those cues. You can search twitter at any point for “amazon echo commercial” and see people
complaining about their Echo reacting to Amazon commercials on TV.
25. 25
But algorithms are getting more and more complex, to the point where they sort of have minds of their own. We want them to be “smart” but they’re not smart in the way that people are — and they may never be.
A friend of WebVisions, Dan Saffer, published this great piece in Wired about how we should tame our algorithms like dogs…and that makes a lot of sense. It’s actually bad for us and dogs to treat them like people…and we ought to not
assume that ‘smart things’ are like people either, even though they’re being designed and marketed to us to feel human.
26. 26
No metaphor is more
misleading than “smart”.
- Mark Weiser, pioneer of ubiquitous computing
The late great Mark Weiser’s quote about “smart” things is more relevant now than ever.
27. 27
James J Gibson
In fact, Saffer’s article came out just as I was finishing a part of my book about ‘smart things’ and context. In it, I explain how JJ Gibson’s ecological perception theory posits that creatures with autonomy in our environment are
objects with agency, animals, basically. They’re different from inert objects, because they act and move on their own, according to something other than predictable, invariant natural patterns.
I think that we need to not only do contextual research for users to understand how they perceive and act in the world, but for the IoT smart things with agency as well, so we can map and model the way they perceive and act.
Because it’s our job to translate between them.
28. 28
We may never be able to rely on so-called intelligent systems to do things especially right always, because they make contextual mistakes all the time. Human
context is extremely nuanced and complex. For example, if Amazon should get anything right, it’s the authors of books, but for the longest time, it thought I had
a co-author.
29. 29
Just another amusing example of how we make systems that we want to be smart and automated, but that don’t grok the nuances of real people — Facebook wants me to name this halloween decoration. Maybe it should be A. Horsley
Hinton?
30. 30
“BMR”
height:weight:age:gender
“Calories!”
Arm
Movements
“Steps!”
[algorithm]
A tracker like the fitbit perceives us as a series of movements in space, and nothing more. It doesn’t actually understand the context of those movements. Like the other things we put into the
environment, this object makes our bodily movements mean something additional and new, and somewhat invisible to us, that movement didn’t mean before. Just like when we walk down our hall
and a smart thermostat reads it as activity that it considers when deciding to adjust temperature.
When we make smart, networked things, we have to create a language interface. But it’s challenging, because what the algorithms and sensors and little digital brains actually understand and
what they tell us might be really disconnected. The Fitbit and other trackers like it aren’t actually counting steps and calories, but making assumptions that are mostly “good enough” to
approximate those values, but not actually know them. These need more transparency and clarity about the complexity behind the information, rather than pretending that it’s “simple.”
31. 31
Understanding Context, Andrew Hinton, O’Reilly Media 2014
Technology work tends to focus on the task — the action itself — without considering the context of need that brought it about, or the situation that spawned the need. But
contextual complexity demands now that we consider all these dimensions.
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Understanding Context, Andrew Hinton, O’Reilly Media 2014
People need to understand digital “things” …
So, we need to understand digital things… and design needs to create careful layers of translation between the digital system’s artificial, binary conceptualization and the
organic, analog, messy human perception and understanding.
33. 33
Understanding Context, Andrew Hinton, O’Reilly Media 2014
… but things also need to understand people.
But we need to work the other way around too — every thing in the IoT has its own situational context, a need that it’s programmed to meet, and actions it takes.
34. PLACES ARE MADE OF THINGS.
AN INTERNET OF THINGS
IS AN INTERNET OF
PLACES.
A final point to emphasize the environmental context of all this. Things are not just things, they’re part of places. When you add all these things together, what sort of places
result? Most of them are unaware of one another, especially if they come from different manufacturers.
35. 35
We’ve been imagining for over a century, since the dawn of sophisticated industrial technology, what sort of amazing, automated, technologically intelligent environments we
might be able to make for ourselves. We’ve fantasized about these as utopias as well as dystopias, and often mixtures of both. But we’re long past the point of fiction on this.
(http://thecharnelhouse.org/2)
36. 36
Creators of things like the Nest products want to grow their businesses and they want to make things that make people’s lives easier and better. This isn’t just about objects —
things — but entire places and ecosystems.
37. 37
Mashable
XBox reading user’s skeleton & heartbeat
It still blows me away to think that a consumer device in our homes can sense our skeletal structure, and our heartbeats. Again, this is an extreme form of digital-agent
perception that doesn’t mean the same things to these objects that it means to us.
38. 38
But how well
do you
understand
your iPhone??
With homekit and the new Apple TV, Apple is making a big play in this realm as well. But how well do you understand even your iphone? If I asked you to write down, right now,
all the streams of information your phone is saving to and pulling from cloud services, could you do it? Nobody ever says yes, by the way.
10 years ago, if I asked if you’d want a product on your person most of the day that tracked and saved externally all this information about you, you’d have said, no way — i
don’t bring this up to be alarmist, though, only to point out that we have a tendency to keep going forward with all this, without taking the time to map and understand it all, and
help users have a clear understanding of all the complexity that’s now invisible but meaningful to them. Context is radically changed in our phones — and already changing for
our homes and workplaces and cities. How do we help it be more clear?
39. ENVIRONMENT
PRODUCT
PRODUCT PRODUCT PRODUCT
PRODUCT
PRODUCT
PRODUCT
PRODUCT
PRODUCT
PRODUCT
PRODUCT
PRODUCT
PRODUCT
PRODUCT
PRODUCT
We tend to be focused on products, and we’re creating them incredibly fast.
In fact, the the way a lot of people are now defining design is essentially pushing product out into the world to see what happens. It’s great that we’re more product-focused
than project-focused, but that’s not enough.
>> But all of these are part of an environment. And they’re all connected. Every product needs to be created with clear awareness of how it will exist as part of a place.
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Name & model the invisible contexts we make.
The place to start is to at least name and model the things inbetween — the invisible things — and their rules and what they see and sense. And then we
start to see that we’re wanting people to understand many different overlapping contexts at once.
41. 1
MODEL & CREATE
INVARIANTS FOR
LEARNABLE CONTEXTS
CONTEXT / IoT
So to sum up, here are 3 points to walk away with.
42. 2
LANGUAGE IS THE
HUMAN INTERFACE WITH
DIGITAL CREATURES
CONTEXT / IoT
context and strategy have a lot to do with each other because of the challenges of environments becoming more complex.