Sessions at Interaction12 about User Interface Design

Friday 3rd February 2012

• From Solid to Liquid Air: Interaction Design and the Future of the Interface

  by Amber Case

  We are tool using creatures. Prosthetics touch almost every part of our lives. Until recently, humans have used their hands and bodies to interface with objects. Early interfaces were solid and tactile. Now, the interface can be anywhere. The best interfaces compress the time and space it takes to absorb relevant information, and the worst cause us car accidents, lost revenue, and communication failures. We increasingly live on interfaces, and it is their quality and design which increases our happiness and our frustration.

  This speech will discuss how the field of anthropology can be applied to interface design, and how future interfaces, such as the ones employed by augmented reality, will change the way we act, feel and communicate with one another.

  Topics in the speech will include:

  Superhuman interaction design
  Augmented and diminished reality
  Calm computing
  New and Invisible Interfaces
  Mental fragmentation
  and other physiological effects of computing.
  * Interfaces and objects as prosthetics and their effect on our nervous systems &8211; the extension of our nervous system into digital interfaces.

  • Anthropology
  • Augmented Reality
  • Interaction Design
  • User Interface Design

  At 4:30pm to 5:15pm, Friday 3rd February

  In Liffey B, The Convention Centre Dublin

  Coverage video