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#wds09By Rob Mansontwitter: @namborMOB-labs.com.au

Pervasive ComputingSpace is collapsing

What does Pervasive mean?

What is Space?What is space?What is space?

"The Internet revolution has barely started," says Weiser. "It won't be done until everything is on the Web. Light switches, y g g ,pagers, copiers, printers, as well as PCs, benefit from Web connections.“

k iMark Weiser 1996

Mark Weiser – Xerox Parc

Information Architecture is born(1970)

Mark Weiser – Person/World Distinction

Pervasive ComputingSpace is collapsing

1. Distance between your devices & the network

1. Distance between your devices & the network

2. Time taken to connect & share

3. Distance between you and your devices

3. Distance between you and your devices

3. Distance between you and your devices

3. Distance between you and your devices

4. Number of steps between thought & action (activity)

5. Cost of each of these

Space is collapsing

Example 1. your mail

Example 2. sharing information

Example 3. sharing video

Nokia Series 40 phonesI i ll thi i th t h iIronically this is the most common phone in the world – yet it requires a ridiculous 4 steps:1. Select "Options”2. Select “Use detail”3. Select “Web address”4 Select “Go to"4. Select Go to

Nokia Series 60 phonesThis user experience is significantly more complex and requires at least 3 steps:1 Highlight the link1. Highlight the link2. Select "Options”3. Select “Open link"

Sony EricssonThis interface is slightly more complex andThis interface is slightly more complex and requires at least 2 steps:1. Highlight link2. Select "Open"

iPhone and Windows MobileiPhone and Windows MobileThis type of “direct manipulation” interface couldn't be simpler. This requires only 1 step:1. Tap the link

Example 4. opening a link on a mobile

The Business Model – Alex Osterwalder

The Business Model – MOB

Activity theory & distributed cognition

Design it into your model from the ground up

Example 1. mobile dashboards

Example 2. user engagement

Example 3. APIs and Open Data

Pervasive ComputingSpace is collapsing

What will the future hold?

In 1962 Morton L. Heilig created VR

In 1965 Ivan Sutherland created HMD

In 1992 Tom Caudell coined the term AR

Since then AR has slowly been building

And now it is exploding

Computer Vision is growing too

Consumer eyeware collapses space

And that will collapse even further

Multiple perspectives will spread too...

Pervasive ComputingSpace is collapsing

NOW!

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