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interactive

2015

Inclusion and

emotion in wearable

technology design

Alastair Somerville

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@acuity_design

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#SensoryUX

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Accessibility & sensory

cognition

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Never confuse being an

expert with being a user

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Post screen interaction

Multimodal design

Wearables

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Making more of

ourselves

sensoryux.com

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Difficult to design for

others if you don’t

challenge your

assumptions about

yourself

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Results

Ideas

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Inclusion

Emotion

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Inclusion is essential to

future design

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Emotion is essential to

future engineering

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Douglas Adams

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Total

Perspective

Vortex

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YOU are small

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You are PRECIOUS

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Starting with some bits of

neuroscience

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WARNING

Neuroscience is not certain but it

is useful to frame discussions

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Your brain helps you in

many ways

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Protects your sense of

self

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Enables social

connection

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Exclusion

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Inclusion

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Still excluded

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Fractures

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We all change to create

inclusion

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We are great when we

share

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Networks

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Assistive technology

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The future exists

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People with disabilities

experience it

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New ways of being social

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New ways of being

present

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Being social

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Brainport

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Lorm Glove

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V.E.S.T.

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Bit of neuroscience

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Neuroplasticity

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Being present

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Mindfulness

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US Army

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Bit more neuroscience

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Neuroergonomics

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Attention

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Misdirected attention

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Misdirected attention

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Happiness

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Happiness By Design

Paul Dolan

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Positive emotion and

purpose over time

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Emotion

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Behavioural Design

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Passive aggressive

reaction to Focus Groups

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Neuroplasticity

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A neuroplastic model

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Decision to change

Necessary but not sufficient Mindfulness

practice

Sensory

practice

Necessary but not sufficient

Emotional desire to changeKey gateway for

success

A model for Neuroplastic change

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A sensory/emotional

model

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Imagination

Attention

Sensor

Seeker

Pleasure

Arousal

Avoid

Bystander

Displeasure

Non arousal

Space

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Positive space

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Purposeful space

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Shared space

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Peripersonal space

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What can you do?

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Inclusion is essential to

innovation

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Involve more people from

more places, all the time

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Understand capacities

and life skills

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Design for social

connections

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Emotion is essential to

engineering

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Create with human

feeling

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Test with human feeling

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Empathy is hard

Emotion is strong

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Share with human feeling

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Thank You

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Q & A

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