Advanced interfaces powered by AI are opening up new use cases and contextual considerations for UX research and design. Smart speakers like Amazon Echo and Google Home are the vanguard of this change, with smart homes, connected cars, and other “intelligent” hardware following fast behind. As interfaces become invisible and devices exist as part of interconnected ecosystems, UX professionals will find increasing opportunities to design and test experiences for this new “ubiquitous computing” paradigm—will you be one of them?
In this forward-looking talk with present day implications, a Principal UX Researcher will walk you through some of the contextual considerations and ethical implications of designing for these emerging technologies. You’ll learn the UX research frameworks and techniques he uses for AI-driven technologies that are interconnected, personalized, and which change over time.
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If you remember nothing else:
1. Knight Rider was dope.
2. There are two fundamental shifts taking
place in human-computer interactions:
a. “Natural User Interfaces”
b. Context-driven experiences
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“We have found two issues of crucial
importance: location and scale.
• Ubiquitous computers must know
where they are.
• Ubiquitous computers will come
in different sizes, each suited to a
particular task.”
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Ubiety (yüˈbīətē) n. The
quality or state of being in a place,
such as:
a) the state of being placed in a
definite local relation; position;
location;
b) the abstract quality of being in
position; whereness
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The interconnected fabric of
meaning includes:
• Linguistic context
• Cultural context
• Psychological context
• Temporal context
• Physical context
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Place-onas
• Like personas: archetypes to guide design
decisions
• Space vs. place
• Elements:
• Name
• Diagram
• Socio-cultural norms that govern
in that space
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Resources
Books
• Understanding Context; Hinton
• Contextual Design; Holtzblatt & Beyer
• Display & Interface Design; Bennet & Flach
Paper
• Place-onas: Shared Resource for Designing Body
Tracking Applications; Morrison, et al.
YouTube
• Bill Buxton: Ubiety: On Design, Place and the
Importance of Manners