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This is Chris McKirgan's presentation which he gave during the 'Ignite: For Good' evening mySociety hosted on 29th October 2014 as part of the Bath Digital Festival. Description: Wearable Tech promises a wealth of benefits: improving health, measuring your insulin levels or even sharing a memory with a blink of the eye. However, the small change from carrying a technology to wearing it brings a huge barrier to social acceptance, raises issues of privacy and security.
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Wearable Tech: a help or a hindrance?
Wearable Tech: a help or a hindrance?
@ChrisMcKirgan
@ChrisMcKirgan
Wearable Tech: a help or a hindrance?
Pebble, Moto 360 (android wear)
@ChrisMcKirgan & #wearabletech
@ChrisMcKirgan
> a year ~ 2 weeks
Wearable Tech: a help or a hindrance?
Technology that is worn;
What is wearable tech?
Carried Worn Embedded
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Wearable Tech: a help or a hindrance?
Technology that is worn;
What is wearable tech?
The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric
of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.
- Mark Weiser
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Wearable Tech: a help or a hindrance?@ChrisMcKirgan@ChrisMcKirgan
Wearable Tech: a help or a hindrance?@ChrisMcKirgan@ChrisMcKirgan
Wearable Tech: a help or a hindrance?
Mobile – wearable relationship
• Watches and glasses: extensions of mobiles (mostly)
• Fundamentally, the key difference is the user experience
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Wearable Tech: a help or a hindrance?
Helping us – Always alerted
• Never miss an important call• Glance & read texts instantly• No excuse to not call back the wife
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Wearable Tech: a help or a hindrance?
Helping us – Convenience
• Call a cab from your wrist• Pay for your goods with your watch (Apple
Watch, US only)
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Wearable Tech: a help or a hindrance?
Helping us – Better UX
• Simple control• Better app control (sometimes)
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Wearable Tech: a help or a hindrance?
Helping us – Health
• Always attached• heart rate monitor• Step counter
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Helping us – Time appropriate
• Time relevant • Location sensitive• Its about the “now”
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Hindering us – Distraction
• Alerts during conversations• “unsmart” – meeting reminders…in the
meeting!• Too tempting to check that alert…
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Wearable Tech: a help or a hindrance?
Hindering us – Privacy, us & others
• Other can read your private messages• Surveillance• Recording video/audio … incognito
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Wearable Tech: a help or a hindrance?
Hindering us – data & communications
• Your data, broadcast over Bluetooth• Recording video/audio … just creepy
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Wearable Tech: a help or a hindrance?
Hindering us – “snapchat generation”
• Further encourages micro-engagements• Reduces real human relationships to a voice
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Hindering us – Gender targeting *
• Missing the fashion market• Fashionable? Its improving.• Not helping the gender divide in the industry
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* http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/article/1283981/wearable-tech-irrelevant-women
Wearable Tech: a help or a hindrance?
Conclusions- Pros
• Better/easier connected (albeit short)• Never miss a call/text again• Super convenient (paying, call glancing)• Health tracking(heart-rate, step counter)• Feel like James Bond.
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Conclusions- Cons
• Unneeded distractions• Irrelevant notifications• Privacy concerns• Data mining - Google knows my heart rate?• Growing social opposition
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Wearables – what needs solving
• Privacy invasion (“glassholes”)*
• Data privacy, where to draw the line?
• Social acceptance of new technologies
• From geek to fashion (past early adopters)
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* https://sites.google.com/site/glasscomms/glass-explorers
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