Lance Weiler, Story Architect and Co-Founder, Reboot Stories

2. How can we harness technology
to evoke empathy and emotion,
while at the same time enabling
an intuitive, invisible and fluid
storytelling experience for
the audience?

3. PLEASE CLOSE
YOUR EYES

5. TRILLION
SENSORS IN
THE WORLD
BY 2015
.15

6. BILLION
DEVICES WILL
COME ONLINE
BY 205050

9. Technology shouldn’t
require all of our attention,
just some of it, and only
when necessary.

10. A person’s primary task
should NOT be computing,
but being human.

11. Amber Case

12.
“Why do humans have
to confirm to a computer
why can’t a computer
conform to us?”.
STEVE
MANN

13.
Why do stories have
to conform to platforms
and formats why can’t
technology conform to
what best tells the story?

14. UI

15. UI

17. 1. A driver approaches her car.
2. Takes her smartphone out of her purse.
3. Turns her phone on.
4. Slides to unlock her phone.
5. Enters her passcode into her phone.
6. Swipes through a sea of icons, trying to find the app.
7. Taps the desired app icon.
8. Waits for the app to load.
9. Looks at the app, and tries figure out (or remember) how it works.
10. Makes a best guess about which menu item to hit to unlock doors
11. Taps a button to unlock the doors.
12. The car doors unlock.
13. She opens her car door.

18. NOW LETS
ELIMINATE
THE UI

19. 1. A driver approaches her car.
2. The car doors unlock.
3. She opens her car door.

20. ubiquitous
computing

21. ubiquitous
storytelling

22. The emergence
of a contextual
story layer

23. Digital "Physical "

24. Wearables
are in search
of a story.

25. Social
Connected
Personalized
Pervasive

29. SIMPLICITY

30. EMOTIONAL
CORE

31. HUMAN
CENTERIC

32. 5 TIMES
WHY

33. QUESTIONS

34. Empathy
Design
Ideation
Test

36. Digital "Physical "

37. bodymindchange.ca

43. MAKE WITH
PURPOSE

44. Eyewriter 2010
Not Impossible Labs

46. Project Daniel
Not Impossible Labs

48. PROJECT DANIEL’S IMPACT
Is printing a limb per week in the Sudan
Launched a publishing platform in partnership with
Say Media to highlight diy social innovation
Won 3 Cannes Lions including a
Titanium Lion

49. Place the audience
into the SHOES of
your protagonists.

64. 22,456 miles
65 cities
1500 students
1 little robot
Extensive beta testing

66. Ask yourself the hard questions – why am I
telling this story, why would anyone care,
would I actually participate in something
like this?
Don’t mistake complexity for quality. Sit
with your project and consider if its too
complex? Could someone else not involved
be able to share it with a friend?

67. How can we harness technology
to evoke empathy and emotion,
while at the same time enabling
an intuitive, invisible and fluid
storytelling experience for
the audience?
A challenge for the week…

68. RESOURCES

69. DIGITAL STORYTELLING LAB @ COLUMBIA
www.digitalstorytellinglab.com

70. learndoshare.net

71. BuildingStoryworlds.com

73. It is not the answer
that enlightens,
but the QUESTION.
EUGENE IONESCO DECOUVERTES

74. You never change things by
fighting the existing reality. To
change something, build a
new model that makes the
existing model obsolete.
- Buckminster Fuller

75. THANK YOULance Weiler
@lanceweiler
lance@lanceweiler.com
rebootstories.com
learndoshare.net
connectedsparks.com