There is a lot of great technology being created and developed everyday. This session provides an overview of some of the "hot-topics" within the emerging tech field, what trends to watch, and what can libraries do with these emerging technologies. We will uncover everything from where touch-based computing and gesture-based computing. Most importantly, we can uncover ways libraries can create new technology, driving down our own technology costs and increasing overall benefits for our libraries.
7. Touch Based
People want to touch everything
Discover Through Touch
Search Through Touch
Learn Through Touch
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14. Gesture Based
Communicate with Technology Hands
Free
Uses multiple cameras to detect
depth/movement
Microsoft Kinect
Sites to Explore:
Microsoft Kinect
PrimeSense
Evoluce
26. Have You Considered…
People are more mobile / more
connected than ever before
Social Networks
Email
SMS (Texting ;) )
How does this translate to libraries?
Constant Connection to Information and
Databases
27. Back To Searching
Technology is becoming more “visual”
orientated
Whether it be from touch, gesture, or
objects
Search Dynamics are changing
29. Interactive Library Cards
Put a “Reward System” into the library card
Badges
Prizes
Exclusive Programming / Event registration
Low Tech:
Print new more colorful library cards, allow patrons to
customize their card with different and increasingly more
desired badges – based off books read, programs
attended, etc.
High Tech:
Create Library Cards with screens
Send Messages to card when they are in the library
(wirelessly connected)
Display “reading level” or “badges they own”
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32. Libraries Can Do This Too
We are in a time of new inventions and
great technological achievements
Put together groups to build new
ideas, concepts, and technology
Open Source Hardware / Software
Build New Staff
Transform the way you work, play, and
collaborate.
33. Future Concepts
People watching TV can point and click
to buy content (clothes, cars, etc)
Predictive searches (Amazon does it now)
34. Places to Watch
Mashable
Engadget
TED Talks (TED.com)
Crowd Funding Sites (ex Kickstarter)
CES (Consumer Electronics Show)