Today's theme is "We want to be connected." EffectiveUI’s team on the ground provides a daily recap of Interaction13 in Toronto, January 28-31, 2013.

1. IxD 2013 DAILY
RECAP
JANUARY 29, 2013

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 29TH
We want to be connected.
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• Your cell phone, your computer, your online
accounts - you’re leaving data about yourself
everywhere.
YOU’RE • Jer Thorp (Data & Human Experience) encouraged
everyone to have a more personal relationship with
CONNECTED their data. If data can become something beautiful,
maybe people will care more about it and be good
RIGHT NOW. custodians.
• OpenPaths.cc allows people to reclaim their data
and use it to tell a story that’s relevant to them.
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DATA CAN BRING
US TOGETHER
Data on its own is meaningless but when used to measure
and visualize user actions and activities, we begin to
understand how small our world is and how similar the
behaviors of people are.
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MULTI-USER
INTERFACES
Whether its kids in South African schools working together
in an all-digital virtual chemistry lab (Michael Wolf,
Interaction Design for Learning), scientists analysing
Kepler satellite data with g-speak (Jer Thorp, Data &
Human Experience) or people playing a Xbox Kinect game
(Albert Shum, Connecting), interfaces that allow more than
one person to participate in the same activity are driving
connectivity and collaboration.
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YOUR COMMUNITY
IS WAITING FOR
YOU
Connecting with your community can help solve design
problems and make an immediate and relevant impact.
Sami Nerenberg (Design for America: Students Creating
Local and Social Impact) showed us how Design for
America is solving community-based problems and
driving change through design in colleges across the U.S.
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NATURAL • The most natural interface is no interface.
INTERFACES. • Natural interfaces go beyond gesture. Our faces and
expressions can be used to transmit emotion and a
YOU HAVE
wide variety of desires.
• Xbox Kinect is an example of how natural interfaces
THEM. can facilitate shared experiences.
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MAKING
CONNECTIONS
MORE MEANINGFUL
We have so much data on how people connect but how
do we use that to create interactions that drive to
meaningful parts of our lives?
What are the meaningful parts of our lives?
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CONNECTING
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