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Natural Born Storytellers
Connected Objects are
Photo: Roberto Veronese
By Leandro Agrò

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FRONTIERS
CONFERENCES
Leandro Agrò | Gmail, Skype, Flickr, Twi3er
@leeander
UX
Internet of Things
IxD
AI, Virtual Assistants
Eye-­‐Tracking
Usability
Mobile & Wearable
AR/VR
Natural / EmoIonal UI
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A few things that everyone already knows...
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According 98% of our DNA
Humans = Apes
What makes us... Humans?

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Humans are characterized by
erect posture and bipedal
locomotion; manual dexterity and
increased tool use, compared
to other animals; and a general
trend toward larger, more
complex brains and societies.

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Our small world, as we know it,
is shaped by our tools

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Technological Innovation
is an Evolutionary
Process, that responds
to social innovation.
GeorgeBasalla
We are the consequence
of the TOOLS we use.

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Technologies are shaping us through the
cogniIve (connected) devices we are using

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What means for IxDA?
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HCI path to the future

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HCI path to the future

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Surprised?LOVE might be the final UX strategy
to seduce and retain users.
…luckily we are not yet there…

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When
SCI-­‐FI AGE

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When We live on the border between
Cloud FOG compuIng and the IoT Age.
At this stage of technological evoluIon,
being connected is a Darwinian issue
for a product: a key element for it, to
live long and prosper.
SCI-­‐FI AGE

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Basically a “Fog” Node on wheels

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The autopilot service is constantly learning,
thanks to machine learning algorithms,
detailed mapping and sensor data, and the
car’s wireless connection.
Tesla leverages these informations from its
entire fleet autopilot-enabled cars. Meaning,
it operates as a network so when one car
learns something, they all learn it.

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Cultural ShiU
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Every Tool, service and
business that jumps into
digital technology, starts to
follow Moore’s Law:
Peter Diamandis
h3p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9wFXHYJgdo
AcceleraIon changes everything

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BILLION of connected objects are
knocking to our doors
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Placing an object in a pocket, in a car, on a
desktop or in customer’s homes means to
create a personal, bi-­‐direcIonal,
always-­‐on, communicaCon channel.
BUSINESS is PUSHING IoT

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The INTERNET OF THINGS bridges both the
physical and digital worlds, permiang the power
of the internet to reach everywhere humanity.

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We are already living a world wide
conversaIon that includes our tools
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Our Connected Objects started helping us to tell
stories…
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We evolve sharing
stories

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Who is actually taking the picture?
Are you smiling?
Are your eyes open?
Who added locaIon?
Who added metadata?
Smartphones are supporIng your storytelling…

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What is real? Who is the arFst?
Algorithm is acIvely proposing a
specific way to tell the story…

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Is this an incepFon?
From where the SELFIE habit come from?
Why do you want to share this picture with “social” friends?
We are the consequence of the tools we use
Mutual influence, induced need, incepIon
Your phone is influencing the
start of a new story

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ProacCve Panorama
Androids examine every picture you
take -­‐ and -­‐ it proacIvely assembles a
panorama without your request.

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ProacCve Panorama
Androids examine every picture you
take -­‐ and -­‐ it proacIvely assembles a
panorama without your request.
Your phone is autonomously building a frame of the story

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Build the story
One-­‐click Movie trailer
Families started to collect and
record their special moments in
a brand new way, that is
actually influencing their
lifeIme memories
Your phone is autonomously
building the teaser of a story

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CollecCng Data
Connected objects are usually smart
enough to play an automaCc
behavior.
For example, make a detecIon each
“x” minutes, or take a picture each
Ime there is a specific condiIon,
etc.
AutomaIc memories are almost a story. In fact, starIng
from a simple acIon repeated in Ime, is easy to create
a visualizaIon that supports a specific storytelling.

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Organizing Data
Visualizing informaIon is already a
first picture of a story.
The right visualizaIon is powerful way
to influence users.
Fitness bracelets records what we do every day.
This extended memory, visualized through a dashboard,
is able to make our behavior measurable and more
understandable.
At the same Ime, the new automaCc, visual and
mathemaCcal language of these automaCc
memories is already part of a brand new kind of
storytelling.
Your dashboard is a representaIon of you.
You are your dashboard.
You might desire to achieve a be3er result.

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From interacCon to relaConship
Luka is an app that gives
recommendaIons in a chat interface.
Users can message with quesIons like
“Anything fun to do tonight?”
Luka then processes those requests and
sends back recommendaIons that are
based not only on the request itself but
your history and preferences.
Luka’s storytelling is influencing your choices

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Lived conversaCon
Today’s 3.0 update to the Telegram
apps makes interacIng with bots
super-­‐easy. In most cases you won’t
even have to type anything, because
bots will provide you with a set of
custom bu3ons.
Bots are simply Telegram accounts operated by soUware –
not people – and they'll oUen have AI features. They can
do anything – teach, play, search, broadcast, remind,
connect, integrate with other services, or even pass
commands to the Internet of Things.
Your personal assistant “talks” with you on social

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A new way of knowledge
Quartz bot is an app that interacts
with you, offering up news stories
which you can choose to get more
informaIon about or move on to
the next.
People don’t read the news
anymore? Let’s allow computers to
build stories that might fit the users
short a3enIon span.

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knightscope-­‐k5
Skin & hearth
We all are cyborgs
Mission CriFcal autonomous
machines observing us
Autonomous cars learn from all of us -­‐

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http://www.slideshare.net/DQuid/iot-its-about-brand-collaboration

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Our Connected Objects started helping us to tell
stories, but they might learn to tell their own stories,
exactly like CARS that are learning to DRIVE.
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Storyteller objects are already influencing the scene.
Younger generaCons are seeing faces instead screens...
The incoming communicaIon will be a relaIonship in which
objects emerge -­‐from the Fog-­‐ as real enCCes.

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hKp://blog.jibo.com/2016/02/03/animaFng-­‐jibo-­‐with-­‐the-­‐sdk/

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What designers should design, today?
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THINGS are evolving faster
than we might expect

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Push design boundaries to new territories.
Embrace and celebrate diversity.
Be much more than a “pixel shaper”.
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What designers should design, today?
Behaviors, Data,
Conversations, Mutual
Learning, Stories…

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What designers should design, today?
#Life#IoT, #cognitivecomputing, #robots, #worlds, #artificiallife …

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KK: “what technology
wants… is what LIFE wants”
Yes, Life

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This is NOT a “business like usual”
moment into the design industry.

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People expectaIons are shaped
by consumer technologies.
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The incoming stories, crafted
together with our connected
objects, will make History of
computing and society (soon).

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There is life BEYOND the PIXELS,
BEYOND the FRAME of the screen…
I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really,
really, ridiculously good looking. (Derek Zoolander)

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Infuse HUMANITY into everything
(or everything it will evolve without it)

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Connected Objects are Natural Born Storytellers
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