WEARABLE COMPUTING AND LIFELOGGING By Odd-Wiking Rahlff Senior User Experience Designer, Visma Software Int. AS
Presented for Ifi Design, January 30th 2014
AGENDA
¢ The Vision ¢ History ¢ Status ¢ Challenges ¢ The Future ¢ Discussion
VISION OF WEARABLES
¢ (Web)connected electronic gadgets with displays and sensors and actuators that are made to be worn like clothes or accessories.
¢ Interweaves with daily life and activities ¢ ”Bitstream relays”
BUT USED FOR WHAT? ¢ The next cool thing looking for a need?
¢ Self tracking – quantified self – biometrics � Advanced step counter � Training assistance � Fitness and sleep monitor � …
¢ Life logging � Photolog � Places you have been � Sounds around � Parasitic on other gadgets
¢ Phone log ¢ Twitterlog ¢ FB-log
¢ Sense augmentation and AR
HISTORY OF A TIMEPIECE
?!
HISTORY OF WEARABLES AS SUCH
¢ 1980s: Steve Mann, MIT
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann
STATUS FROM CES 2014 SONY SMARTBAND AND CORE FOR LIFELOGGING
OTHER WEARABLE LOGGERS
¢ Jawbone Up ¢ Nike Fuelband ¢ Fitbit tracker ¢ Livescribe Pen
…BUT THERE IS MORE THAN THIS “The bracelet will become available in limited quantities worldwide later this
month. It comes in a striking rose gold colorway, which takes cues from high-end timepieces, with a clasp, bezel and screws manufactured from 316 series stainless steel. The beautifully crafted metal components are then hand-polished to a mirror finish and given a beautiful and extremely durable PVD coating.
The Rose Gold Nike+ FuelBand SE will be available from select retail locations and nike.com beginning November 21, 2013 for a suggested retail price of $169 USD”
SETTING YOUR MARK ON THE TIMELINE
Neanderthal hands, El Castillo, Spain
SAINT-LOUPE-DE-VARENNES, 1826
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce
FACES FROZEN IN TIME, 1839
MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER JENNY – BORNHOLM 1914
LIFELOGGING
¢ “The cover story spotlights the controversial practice of lifelogging - the painstaking effort to capture a life in photos, letters, keepsakes, video, audio recordings and more.”
¢ CACM, May 2010
REASONS FOR LOGGING
¢ The frail human memory � Memory Glasses [deVaul, MIT, 2003] � Remembrance Agent [Rhodes, 1996] � MyLifeBits [Gordon Bell]
¢ Self inspection ¢ The Innerverse
THE REVISITED TIMELINE ¢ Leeds, October 1888
� http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myQpkIlv_lw
¢ Berlin 1900 � http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-m9A8mY-U0
¢ London 1904 � http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8hnCRrGoE
¢ London 1926 � http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwahIQz0o-M
¢ London revisited � http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kml92pPjx0
E.g. Odd hits, July 6.1962 (27:40)
PERSONAL AND SHARED STORIES
¢ From Big Brother ¢ To “Little Brother”s
Public
Group
Personal
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NEEDS FOR STORAGE ¢ Books (~ 1 MB /book) ¢ All the books in the world - Library of Congress
� 28 mill books � 28 TB
¢ All the Movies in the world 100-200.000 � Some PB
¢ A logged Life � 100 TB
[Source: G.Bell, 2001. Kahle, 2004]
October 2013: “3D magnetic storage breakthrough enables 100TB+ hard drives”
SEARCHING YOUR LIFELOG…
¢ Words in my talkstream ¢ Places I’ve visited ¢ Along my Timeline ¢ Places my heart raced ¢ Times of joy ¢ … ¢ By active search…
¢ …or by passive � Contextual triggering
FACEBOOK TIMELINE, SEPTEMBER 2011
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BITSTREAMS
tag
sensor
(s,ID,t,…)
ID
s f(s,ID,t,…)
THE INTERWEAVING OF THE STREAMS
¢ The things we see ¢ The things we see together
¢ ”I feel a great disturbance in the Force”
CHALLENGES
¢ Data integrity and privacy ¢ Fragmented standards ¢ Proprietary walled gardens
� Apple � Samsung � Sony � …
¢ Battery � The endless charging cycles
¢ Synchronisation ¢ Data preservation ¢ Usefulness
DATA FOR WHOM?
¢ Yourself of course! ¢ NSA ¢ China ¢ Google ¢ Facebook ¢ PST ¢ Your pedigree?
INHERITANCE OF LIFELOG
THE FUTURE – INCORPORATION CORP.
¢ Google Glass
WEARABLES SEEP IN EVERY…WEAR
SUMMARY
¢ Wearable technology and lifelogging is here to stay
¢ First person perspective logging ¢ Changes our perception of reality ¢ Connects with personal and cultural trace ¢ Will be severely targeted by commercial use and
secret monitoring ¢ Opens the hive mind
DISCUSSION
¢ What would YOU like to get from a wearable? ¢ How do you think these systems will change us?
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