User Interface Trends

User interface trends

Alan DixTalis, University of Birmingham

& Tiree Tech Wave

http://alandix.com/academic/papers/nui2013/

University ofBirmingham

Tiree

TalisTiree Tech Wave20-24 March 2014

Alan Walks Wales

1058 miles3 ½ monthsApril-July 2013

focus on IT at the margins

the best technology!

voice recorder

real buttons!!

use it while moving

data

locationGPX ... batteries ... sporadic signals ....

bio-sensingECG (heart), EDA (skin) and accelerometers

audio and imagesin the moment

textafter the event

implicit

explicit

user interface trends ...

changes due to:

technology

society and the world

academic/design discipline

... and what this means for users

technology

changes?

novel technology

commoditisation of technology

… computers by the bucket load

http:/www.hcibook.com/alan/projects/firefly/

cognition connects with computation

when bodies touch technology

• material design• spatial layout• the body• digital artefacts

space and spatialarrangement

digital artefactsvirtual physicality

material artefactsand design

the bodyphysiology

understanding physicality

physical design

digitality invades the world

• Xerox Paperwork/dataglyphs

• 3D printing

• active materials

natural?

gestures in mid air ...in air haptics

onomatopoeic actionvestigial or imitativelargely symboliccommunication not tool

100,000 years

from gesture to

words ...

and back again?

low attention – low intention

implicit orincidental

Tiree open sign

augmented bodies?

http://people.ucsc.edu/~joahanse/onlineexhibit/thirdhand/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ship_Who_Sang

augmented senses?

Google glass – high attention

holographic spectaclesfocus, zoom, ...

direct neural stimulation

subliminal semantic labellingexpanded peripheryaugmented colour space?

society and the world

technology and society

from the stirrup

to the Arab Spring

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/6850316297/

tomorrow’s children ...

physiological changes... all fingers and thumbs

cognitive changesthe death of meta-cognition?

today’s

post-industrialisationcraft and artisan

http://www.hovisbakery.co.ukhttp://artisanbaker.org

at the margins

social marginality:poor, old, rural

information marginality:poor connectivity, old

devices

IT deepens the divide... but can IT help in the

margins?

slow time & design for solitude

the discipline

rediscovering rigourand methodology

the new artisan ...

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:15121

celebrating locality

IT in the margins

lessons from each otherHarris Tweedhole in the wallsimple SMS

an old dream ... the electronic village shop

what now?

www.hole-in-the-wall.com

smarter design for (maybe less smart)

technology?