Device Design Day: Information is a Material

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This talk will discuss what it means to treat information as a design material: its properties, the possibilities it creates, approaches to design, and why its important to differentiate between appliance-like devices and terminal-like devices.

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Mike KuniavskyDevice Design Day

San FranciscoAugust 20, 2010

INFORMATION IS A MATERIAL

ISBN: 978-0-12-374899-7 Pre-order now, ships in Sept.

PEAK MHZ

$1500* $0.50

* CPI Adjusted to 2008, original price: $900

1989 2010

PART 1: DESIGN PROPERTIES OF INFORMATION

AUTOMATICALLY SENSE THE WORLD

AUTONOMOUSLY ACT ON THE WORLD

REMEMBER

REPEAT EXACTLY

REPEAT EXACTLY

CREATE COMPLEX BEHAVIOR

CREATE COMPLEX BEHAVIOR

PART 2: USING INFORMATION AS A MATERIAL

OBJECT-ORIENTED HARDWARE

BLINKM

thingm.com/products/

SMART THINGS

INFORMATION AS DECORATION

INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS

PART 3: APPLIANCES AND TERMINALS

TWO KINDS OF DEVICES

APPLIANCES, TERMINALS AND NETWORKS

APPLIANCE + NETWORK = THE INTERNET OF THINGS

TERMINAL + NETWORK = SERVICE AVATAR

ALL DESIGN IS A NEGOTIATION WITH MATERIALS

Mike Kuniavskymikek@thingm.com

ISBN: 978-0-12-374899-7

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