As a UX professional, by now you’ve had to design for a mobile experience. But fewer of us have had the challenge of designing for Glass or other wearables like Pebble. The end user experience is quite different when you wear it, see it, feel it, talk to it, swipe it and hear it and its pervasiveness opens up a whole world of self-monitoring: heart rate, motion, brain waves, periodic camera pics and more. Come learn about the next wave of wearables. Get a glimpse into how the experiences you will create in the next few years will differ from today’s UX. Multimodal (voice, sound, touch, heads-up display), bioaware (heart rate, GSR, blood pressure, motion) and pervasive wearable devices are will rapidly change the way we approach and design user experiences.

1. Wearable User Experiences:
The New World of Pervasive-
Multisensory UX
John Whalen, Ph.D.
Principal, Strategy & User Experience
Brilliant Experience
jw@brilliantexperience.com
240-281-0764 (m)
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2. Introduction

3. Hi I’m John

4. Research
Stakeholder Interviews
Field Research
Competitor Reviews
Expert Reviews
Strategy and Ideation
Strategy Workshop
Design Studio
Rapid Prototyping
Iterative Refinement
UX and Design
IA & Flow
Interaction Design
Concept Realization
Visual Design & Branding
Brilliant Experience

5. Stand up if you are a
User Experience Professional

6. There has NEVER been a more
exciting time to be a UXer!

8. “There’s a great future in wearables
Ben, but to be successful they need
these properties:”

9. “Are you listening Ben?”
“Yes Dr. Whalen.”

10. Multisensory
Momentary
Bioaware

11. 1. Multisensory
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12. Multisensory
Vision
Vibration
Sound
Voice
Touch
Cam
era

13. Multisensory
Vision
Vibration
SoundVoice
Touch
Camera
Keyboard

14. But wait, there’s more!

15. Why multisensory?

16. Interactions need to be totally natural

17. Interactions can impair performance.

18. Interactions can impair performance.
Psychobabble
Reductions in stimulus onset asynchrony result
in significant R2 response times. While the time
differences between S1 and S2 stimuli did not
influence performance, the relationship between…
!

19. Your mission:
Determine which senses are most
natural for your task.

20. 2. Momentary
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21. Momentary

24. 3. Bioaware
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25. Motion

26. Heart Rate, GSR, Temperature

28. It only gets interesting when we talk about arousal.

29. It only gets interesting when we talk about arousal.

30. If we know
‣ Your goals
‣ The best interaction style
‣ If you are in motion
‣ Your state of arousal
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Then and only then can we truly optimize the experience for you.

31. Put it all together

32. “There’s a great future in wearables
Ben, but to be successful they need
these properties:”

33. Multisensory
Momentary
Bioware
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34. Thank you!
Be Brilliant!

35. Research
Stakeholder Interviews
Field Research
Competitor Reviews
Expert Reviews
Strategy and Ideation
Strategy Workshop
Design Studio
Rapid Prototyping
Iterative Refinement
UX and Design
IA & Flow
Interaction Design
Concept Realization
Visual Design & Branding
BrilliantExperience.com