Labs organised a knowledge session on Google Glass, July 10, 2014. What is the future of Glass based on a year of experimenting with this new wearable device. Presentation as held by Rommert Zijlstra who did a research project to the impact of wearable devices like Glass on our experience of context and our selves.

1. Google Glass
& Context
Internship research at
Rommert Zijlstra / NMDC Masterstudent / thinkbright.nl

2. New Media Studies aims to research the role of media across
the many dimensions of society and culture.

3. “Sight” -- Film short by Eran May-raz and Daniel Lazo

4. [We’re] reducing the time between intention and
action. I found a lot of studies that showed access
time to your smartphone was really the barrier to use.
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-- Larry Page

5. Google Glass patent application:
What it says...

6. ...what it means...

7. ...and where it comes from?
Ivan Sutherland - "Head-mounted Display"

8. Thad Starner & Steve Mann

9. Constancy, Augmentation, Mediation.
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-- Steve Mann (Definition of Wearable Computer)

10. Constancy:
“always on”

11. Augmentation
“...computing is not the primary task.” (Mann, 1997).

12. Mediation:
Presentation, filtration, and alteration of information
encountered by the user.

13. What about context?

14. "Wearable Intelligence in Healthcare" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnEdaslPtEg)

15. Context....
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...is any probable, interpretable, and relevant
information. in a situation.
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...is actively produced by the user and the
devices through information flows.
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...can be regarded as a web and concerns focal
and peripheral zones.
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...contains entities which relate to each other,
signifying processes of interaction.

16. +
User + ‘Artifacts’ (or devices)
Other users, other artifacts. Internet:
“Everything”

17. What about designers and their tools?

18. Designers try to get everything right from the start.
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Nowadays we know we can't, e.g. Agile and SCRUM,
but designing for context requires a holistic approach.
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The dominant UX paradigm says that we should design
for single and simple purposes, but the increasing
amount of possible interactions makes this difficult.

19. The kinds of contexts:
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› Sensual: devices extract and uncover
information from the environment.
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› Relational: devices and users are connected in
‘artifact ecologies’ (Bødker, 2012).
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› Reciprocal: interactions between services,
users, and devices constitute mutual information
flows.
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Each context creates another context.

20. How can we do this lean?

21. Internet of Things Day Hackathon 2014
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Photo by @R_Valley

23. The Extensible Context Template

24. Like a doodle, or initial exploration of a service.

25. While being structured in which information and
interactions are relevant to the experience.

26. Thank you.
Rommert Zijlstra / NMDC Master student / thinkbright.nl