Enchanted Objects

@DavidRose

What’s next?

Disney

<shoes>

Ambient Umbrella

Enchantment creates the right

affordances

So,which objects should we enchant?

Study the history of the future

Primal wishes are revealed through narratives you know

(it’s a psychology problem)

1Omniscience

2Communication

3Protection

4Health

5Teleportation

6Expression

Enchanted Objects

1Omniscience

Enchanted Objects

The desire to know...

A single pixel browser

Orb

Stage 1:

Pre-attentive Processing

• Rapid parallel

• Feature extraction

• Involuntary

Stage 2:

Late Processing

• Slower serial processing

• Emphasis on symbols

• Volitional

Knowing, without thinking about knowing

Fishing

Fishing

Fishing

Fishing

Fishing

2Communication

Enchanted Objects

Bond’s PenDick tracy’s watch

Presence objects: LumiTouch (from MIT) communicates via squeeze sensors and light

Enchanted Objects

Enchanted Objects

3Protection

Enchanted Objects

4Health

Fountain of Youth

z

Dramatically improving medication adherence through smart packaging, reminders, reports, and rewards.

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Every month you and your physician receive a printed progress report.

This is what poor-adherence looks like... Each row is person, each column is a day. Red indicates a missed dose.

Control group=71% of doses taken

This is what adherence looks like with GlowCaps

Over 98% of doses taken over 6 months

Vitality BlisterPack

Vitality Watch

Spirometer Kazoo

• Makes spirometry fun using sound and projection

• Spirograph projection shows visual feedback to anticipate an asthma attack

• Wireless connection to the web permits realtime data analysis and graphing on smart phone.

Pepper projector

• Dispenses salt and grinds pepper• 360 degree camera uploads images

to offshore nutritionist for realtime analysis

• Mini-projector displays information adjacent to each item: calories against a budget, ecological footprint, transportation modality.

• Press the “i” for more information.

Enchanted Objects

5Teleportation

Jetson

ambient

Ambient Bus Pole

Enchanted Objects

6Expression

Mindstorms

IO Brush

Guitar Hero

1Omniscience

2Communication

3Protection

4Health

5Teleportation

6Expression

Enchanted Objects

Use Enchanted Objects for: * UX simplicity* glanceability

* brand presence

Objects are avatars for services

augmentation

personalization

socialization

gamification

story-ification

levels of enchantment

So,which objects should we enchant?

Enchanted Objects

@DavidRose