Speech given at AR in Action 2017 at MIT Media Lab on 17 Jan 2017.
Miniature electronics and and global supply chains have us on the cusp of a new era of human experience. Early forms of wearable computing focused on augmenting the human ability to compute freely. As pioneer Steve Mann and calm technology pioneer Mark Weiser wanted, “to free the human to not act as a machine”. What does this mean for us as designers and developers, and how can we build interfaces for the next generation of devices?
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Calm Technology
and the Future of AR
Amber Case | @caseorganic
{Research Fellow} Berkman Klein Center for Internet &
Society Center for Civic Media @ MIT Media Lab
AR in Action | 17 Jan 2017 | MIT Media Lab
caseorganic.com / calmtech.com
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“A good tool is an invisible tool.
By invisible, we mean that the
tool does not intrude on your
consciousness; you focus on the
task, not the tool.”
Mark Weiser --
1993
You shouldn’t have to go through the Internet in order to turn on and off your lights.
We are carrying around supercomputers in our pockets. We shoduldn’t be doing all of our processing in the cloud. Touching the network will become expensive.
How few times can you go to the network?
And that’s why we need a calm technology
And that’s why we need a calm technology
At startup, the user sees a virtual representation of the machine based on sensor data, which displays voltages, battery utilization, and other operating characteristics. A red light indicates a fault condition.
The experience is further enhanced through augmented reality, whereby the user view on a mobile device a digital representation of the product overlaid on the actual product in the real world, as shown in the image above. For example, should the fault indicate that a battery needs to be changed, a technician can overlay a graphic showing an animated view of how the housing containing the battery is to be disassembled—down to the tiniest screw, if desired.
http://www.ioti.com/industrial-iot/minority-report-meets-factory-floor
Democratic Displays
Augmented Reality sandbox
(photo from AWE 2012)
This Augmented-Reality Sandbox Turns Dirt Into a UI | WIRED
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Developed by a team of researchers at UC Davis, these augmented-reality sandboxes let kids learn while getting their hands dirty. Photo: Rhys George
Projected Displays as AR (Alan Kay, Bret Victor @worrydream, Glen C. SF)
Communication Design Group
Democratizing (everyone can see them)
Input is a laser pointer
Many surfaces of action
Rectangle-free!
Projected Displays as AR (Alan Kay, Bret Victor @worrydream, Glen C. SF)
Communication Design Group
Projected Server Status
(@worrydream)
Democratizing (everyone can see them)
Input is a laser pointer
Many surfaces of action
Rectangle-free!
Bookshelf
(@worrydream)
Bret Victor's magic bookshelf (in the last part of the article) : Design
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Oct 5, 2015 - In early August I visited Bret Victor's Communications Design Group research ... In his hand, Bret held an iPad, and as he pointed the laser at ...