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Designing for Ubiquitous Computing. Bill Buxton Principal Researcher Microsoft Research. The only true voyage of discovery is not to go to new places, but to have other eyes. Marcel Proust. The future is already here. It is just not uniformly distributed. William Gibson.
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Designing for Ubiquitous Computing Bill Buxton Principal Researcher Microsoft Research
The only true voyage of discovery is not to go to new places, but to have other eyes. Marcel Proust
The future is already here. It is just not uniformly distributed. William Gibson
Ubiquitous Computing • everywhere • transparent Weiser, M. (1991). The computer for the 21st century. Scientific American, 265(3), 94-104.
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1976 1978 1980 1983 1983 1984 1984 1985 1985 2004 2004 2005 2009 2012 37 Years of Smart Watches
3 Phases 3 Miracles It Works! 2015 1975 2007 It Flows! They Work Together!
Complexity Of the collection of devices Of the individual device threshold of frustration
Every new product and service must provide great experience and excellent value – It works and flows. But each must also reduce the complexity and increase the value of all of the others. Things work together. 2 Rules
Aggregation & Disaggregation Tech Seamless: Graceful: Augmentation & Degradation Fn
Aggregation & Disaggregation Tech Seamless: Graceful: Augmentation & Degradation Fn
Business B Experience X Technology T
In the future, quality of experience will be determined by how products work together, in concert, with the rest of the eco-system, not just by the quality of experience of any product on its own – no matter how good that individual experience will be.
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