Presentation for #TFT12: Location and the Future of the Interface In this presentation, Geoloqi founder Amber Case will highlight why developers of apps should look at what users want to do now, as well as what users want to do in the future, why social apps should try to mirror real-world relationships, why sharing should be about who you share with as well as how long you're sharing, and why developers should think about how to make apps "ambient" and require less user interaction. See Amber's TFT speaker Pinterest board: http://pinterest.com/servicedesk/amber-case/

1. LOCATION AND THE FUTURE
OF THE INTERFACE
Amber case

2. Location and the
Future of the Interface
TFT 2012
Amber Case
http://caseorganic.com/
@caseorganic

3. We are all
cyborgs

5. Flickr: cybertoad

6. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/
119/293670483_cbce23bdde_b.jpg
Flickr: soylentgreen23

7. Univac 1 ~1950’s
iPhone ~2000’s

9. I. Problems

10. Persistent
Paleontology

12. II. History

13. Self-Portrait
of Steve Mann
with Wearable
Computing
Apparatus
1981.
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15. Diminished Reality vs. Augmented Reality
• Adding your own layer onto reality
• Replacing public messages with your own

16. Adblock: Image recognition, processing and replacement.

17. Collaborative Reality

18. Remember the Milk
Contextual Notification Systems
Virtual Post-It Notes with Image
Processing
1995
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19. Computer-Mediated Reality:
Face Recognition and History

21. Sousveillance:
MaybeCam

22. Evolution of Prosthesis
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23. Present-Day
Steve Mann
• Extremely lightweight equipment
• Most people have this in their pocket

25. Present-Day
Steve Mann
• Extremely lightweight equipment
• Most people have this in their pocket

27. Text goes here

28. III. Persistent Architecture

30. Englebart’s
Cyborg
Glove

31. Text goes here

34. Twiddler by
HandyKey Corporation
One-Handed Key
Chording USB
Keyboard
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35. Inputs

36. Thad
Starner

37. Borg Group – MIT Media Lab

39. Sandy Pentland

40. GA Tech

43. V. Non-visual wearable
computing

44. Haptic
Compass
Belt

50. Future

51. IV. The Future

52. What is an ambient
application?
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53. What is an ambient application?
Processes occur in the background
Data is pushed to the user
User input can come in many forms, not
just through keyboard input
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54. Information should be pushed
to you
A robot working for you behind the
scenes.
The more it knows about you the more it
can do for you.
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55. Ambient user input
User’s location
Time of day
Current speed (slow or fast?)
Average speed over time (driving vs. walking)
Prior actions (clicks, subscriptions
User’s friends on another platform
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56. your phone is a remote
control for reality.

57. • Actions as buttons
• Invisible interfaces
• Trigger-based interactions
Calm technology

58. The interface
disappears
• Actions are Reduced
• Queries are Eliminated

59. The
Invisible 80m
Interface
900m

60. A Collection
of Invisible
Buttons

61. Types of Interactions
• Entering
• Exiting
• Dwelling at a place

62. Proximal Notification

63. Ambient
Notification

64. Geonotes

65. your phone becomes a
remote control for
reality.
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66. Use Case: Home
Automation
Energy management
and notifications
Enter the house, the
lights turn on
Leave, and the lights
turn off

67. Real-Time
Hyperlocal
Weather

68. Bringing
Wikipedia
to Life

69. Credit: Reid Beels

71. Real-Life Gaming

72. mapattack.org

73. Monitor
significant events
not all events
“Dave, who is normally in New York, is
in town. Both of your schedules are
free at noon”.

74. @caseorganic slideshare.net/caseorganic

75. @caseorganic

76. Personal location
analytics

77. Inform users of significant social
updates.
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78. Everyone has a unique footprint of their city.
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79. Location-Based
Triggers
Create triggers
based on where
people are.
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80. 9:00Am
Send users a message if they're not
within a radius within a certain time
period.
@caseorganic geoloqi.org/API/trigger/create

81. Layers of
Functionality
(Geo-plugins)

82. Geonotes
Leave
messages for
your future
self!

84. But…

85. Battery
Drain

86. Solving
those
problems
enables
entire
industries

87. The best interface is
invisible.
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88. No longer this.
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89. This!
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90. Thank you!
Amber Case
http://caseorganic.com/
@caseorganic

91. WITH THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR
bmc remedyforce
#TFT returns may 2013