Presentation for Web Directions South 2009 on Pervasive Computing that outlines 5 key metrics that can be used to measure how pervasive computing is collapsing your sense of space. These measurements can be used to define and refine specific elements of a business model to make your operating and distribution platforms more pervasive.

1. Pervasive Computing
You're already knee deep in it
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#wds09
By Rob Manson
twitter: @nambor
MOB-labs.com.au

2. Pervasive Computing
Space is collapsing

3. What does Pervasive mean?

4. What is Space?
What is space?

5. "The Internet revolution has barely started," says Weiser.
"It won't be done until everything is on the Web. Light switches,
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pagers, copiers, printers, as well as PCs, benefit from Web
connections.“
Mark Weiser 1996
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Mark Weiser – Xerox Parc

6. Information Architecture is born
(1970)

7. Mark Weiser – Person/World Distinction

8. Pervasive Computing
Space is collapsing

9. 1. Distance between your devices & the network

10. 1. Distance between your devices & the network

11. 2. Time taken to connect & share

12. 3. Distance between you and your devices

13. 3. Distance between you and your devices

14. 3. Distance between you and your devices

15. 3. Distance between you and your devices

16. 4. Number of steps between thought & action (activity)

17. 5. Cost of each of these

18. Space is collapsing

19. Example 1. your mail

20. Example 2. sharing information

21. Example 3. sharing video

22. Nokia Series 40 phones
Ironically this is the
I i ll thi i th most common phone i
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the world – yet it requires a ridiculous 4 steps:
1. Select "Options”
2. Select “Use detail”
3. Select “Web address”
4.
4 Select “Go to
Go to"
Nokia Series 60 phones
This user experience is significantly more
complex and requires at least 3 steps:
1.
1 Highlight the link
2. Select "Options”
3. Select “Open link"
Sony Ericsson
This interface is slightly more complex and
requires at least 2 steps:
1. Highlight link
2. Select "Open"
iPhone and Windows Mobile
This type of “direct manipulation” interface
couldn't be simpler. This requires only 1 step:
1. Tap the link
Example 4. opening a link on a mobile

23. The Business Model – Alex Osterwalder

24. The Business Model – MOB

25. Activity theory & distributed cognition

26. Design it into your model from the ground up

27. Example 1. mobile dashboards

28. Example 2. user engagement

29. Example 3. APIs and Open Data

30. Pervasive Computing
Space is collapsing

31. What will the future hold?

32. In 1962 Morton L. Heilig created VR

33. In 1965 Ivan Sutherland created HMD

34. In 1992 Tom Caudell coined the term AR

35. Since then AR has slowly been building

36. And now it is exploding

38. Computer Vision is growing too

39. Consumer eyeware collapses space

40. And that will collapse even further

41. Multiple perspectives will spread too...

42. Pervasive Computing
Space is collapsing

43. NOW!
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