1 hour talk on the future of successful wearable experience design from the viewpoint of sensory and cognitive design. Uses examples of work in assistive technology to map out possible future developments as well providing some frameworks for practical design problems and their solutions

1. Designing Wearable
Experiences
Founders’ Space
San Francisco

2. 1975

5. What is the User
Experience?

6. A watch
A screen
A button
An interaction

9. 2015

10. What is the User
Experience?

11. A memory
A story
A feeling

12. The user defines
the meaning

13. How do we enable
and enhance that
meaning?

14. You cannot design
wearable
experiences

15. You can enrich
the user’s experience
of wearables

17. Alastair

18. Al

19. Twitter
@acuity_design

20. Uncertainty in
process delivers
greater certainty of
deliverable success

21. Be observant
&
questioning

22. Themes

23. Wearables
Smart Cities
Internet of Things

24. Thing Makers
Thing Users

25. Thing Makers
Thing Users
User Experience

26. Designing a wearable
experience
≠
Strapping a sensor and/or
a screen to a user

27. And
yet...

28. Sensor defined use
cases

29. Fitness

30. David Sedaris

31. Notifications

32. Notifications

33. Multimodal
notification
nightmare

34. What can we do?

35. Understanding
ourselves

36. YOU
About

37. YOU
About

38. YOU
About

39. YOU
Beyond

40. Understanding
usability

41. Timing
Volume
Meaning
Load

42. Questioning
experiences

43. What
When
Where
Who

44. A SensoryUX
framework

45. Behavioural
Physical

46. Behavioural
Physical

47. Behavioural
Physical

48. Behavioural
Physical
Sensational
Emotional

49. Why me?

50. Sensory
projects

52. Confusion

55. Complexity

56. Haptics

57. Post screen
interaction

58. About
Me

59. About
You

60. Cognition
Senses
Sensory Design

61. Cognition

62. Radical
Embodiment

64. Body

65. Brain

66. Body Brain

67. Neurons make
actions

68. Memories

69. Alternative You’s

73. Emotions

75. Emotions
accelerate
meaning making

76. Consciousness

77. Consciousness
enables rapid
adaption

79. Staying alive

80. Senses

81. Touch
Smell
Taste
Sight
Hearing

82. Touch
Smell
Taste
Sight
Hearing

83. 1
2
3=
4
Touch
Smell
Taste
Sight
Hearing

84. Close your eyes

85. Cognitive
Slop
Time

86. Chion

88. Hearing is the
frame for your
senses

91. More Senses

92. Sight Vision
Hearing Audition
Taste Gustation
Smell Olfaction
Touch Somatosensory
Balance & acceleration Equilibrioception
Temperature Thermoception
Kinaesthetic sense Proprioception
Pain Nociception
Time Chronoception
Other internal senses Interoception

93. Complexity

94. Sensory
architecture

95. Behavioural
Physical
Sensational
Emotional

96. Behavioural
Physical
Sensational
Emotional

97. Attention

98. Attention
Sensor Avoid

99. Attention
Sensor
Seeker
Avoid
Bystander

100. Axes of
conscious and
unconscious
sensing

101. Living
Sensationally

102. Attention
Sensor
Seeker
Arousal
Avoid
Bystander
Non arousal

103. Attention
Sensor
Seeker
Pleasure
Arousal
Avoid
Bystander
Displeasure
Non arousal

104. Action
Attention
Sensor
Seeker
Pleasure
Arousal
Avoid
Bystander
Displeasure
Non arousal

105. PAN model

106. Positive emotion
and sense of
purpose matter

107. Happiness design

108. Sapiens

109. The brilliance of
humanity is we aren’t
restricted by reality

110. We predict
We anticipate
We imagine

111. Usability

112. Timing
Volume
Meaning
Load

113. Timing

114. Timing
Volume

115. Timing
Volume
Meaning

116. Timing
Volume
Meaning
Load

117. Designing for
cognitive
accessibility

118. Perceivable Intelligible Actionable

119. Perceivable Intelligible Actionable
Can I sense
it?

120. Perceivable Intelligible Actionable
Can I
understand
it?

121. Perceivable Intelligible Actionable
Can I do
something
with it?

122. Beyond
You

123. Transhumanism
Post-human
Cyborgisation

124. Connected
Intimacy
Tailored
Ecosystems
Co-Evolved
Possibilities
Person As ComputerPerson To Computer
Person To Person
Social
Technology
Futures

125. Learn from assistive
technology to
understand
augmentation

126. Brain
Port

127. US
Army
Study

128. US
Army

129. V.
E.
S.
T.

131. Umwelt

132. New
Experiences

133. New
Senses

134. Sensory Substitution

135. Daniel Kish

137. Neuroplasticity

138. Decision to change
Necessary but not sufficient
Mindfulness
practice
Sensory
practice
Neuroplastic change
Necessary but not sufficient
Successful Sensory Substitution
Emotional desire to change Key gateway for success
A model for neuroplastic
change & sensory
substitution
T
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M
E

139. Emotion

140. “History of the
future in 100
objects”
Adrian Hon

141. Final
Themes

142. UX beyond visual

143. UI is about
personal emotion

144. UX is about
communal empathy

145. Connecting
information
to context

146. Context in
Community
Place
Time
Emotion

147. Remember we have
9+ senses!

148. Sight Vision
Hearing Audition
Taste Gustation
Smell Olfaction
Touch Somatosensory
Balance & acceleration Equilibrioception
Temperature Thermoception
Kinaesthetic sense Proprioception
Pain Nociception

149. We can make more
of ourselves

150. Finishing
Up

151. Sensory UX
depends on
innovation

152. We can
design wearable
experiences now

153. How well it works
with people
depends...

154. It's about
product design
service design
senses
emotions
social connections

155. Technology works in a
human context of social
and sensory needs

156. What to do?

157. Make & test

158. Observe

159. Question

160. Throw stuff away

161. Talk

162. Tell stories

164. A final note

165. 1973

166. One
more
thing…

168. Creative
misuse

169. Users discover
usability

170. The user defines
the meaning

171. Consciousness
enables rapid
adaption

172. Create
something
wonderful

173. Thank you

174. sensoryUX.com
@acuity_design