Mainstream mobile devices are being loaded with sensors. These devices can be used to create experiences that are tailored, adaptive and responsive to the way people live and work. Location-awareness allows devices to respond to place, networked address books enable socially rich communication experiences, and motion and gestural sensors empower designers to respond to context of use. All these elements are creating a ’sensitive ecosystem’; mobile devices that adapt gracefully to context and use.
This presentation will explore some of the design and technology trends that are shaping design for mobile devices, show examples of devices and services that are starting to take advantage of these trends, then explain how designers need to rethink design problems to take advantage of this technological ground-shift.
Presented at Web Direction South '08.
70. // START HERE
How do people and devices
communicate intent?
71. // WRAP
Sensors allow us to communicate
implicitly with devices.
Showing social information allows
people to sense intelligently.
72. // WRAP
For more inspiration:
Dan Lockton - Architectures of Control
Nicholas Nova - Pasta & Vinegar
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect
Adam Greenfield - Speedbird
Timo Arnall - Elastic Space