The only true voyage of discovery is not to go to new places, but to have other eyes. Marcel Proust.

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Designing for Ubiquitous Computing Bill Buxton Principal Researcher Microsoft Research

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Designing for Ubiquitous ComputingBill BuxtonPrincipal ResearcherMicrosoft Research

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The only true voyage of discovery is not to go to new places, but to have other eyes.

Marcel Proust

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The future is already here. It is just not uniformly distributed.

William Gibson

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Weiser, M. (1991). The computer for the 21st century. Scientific American, 265(3), 94-104.

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Ubiquitous Computing

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Boards, Pads & Tabs

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What is this?

www.94fifty.com

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37 Years of Smart Watches

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3 Phases 3 Miracles

It Works!

It Flows!

They Work Together!

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The More You EatThe More You Want

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Complexity

Of the individual device

Of the collection of devices

threshold of frustration

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Every new product and service must provide great experience and excellent value – It works and flows.

But each must also reduce the complexity and increase the value of all of the others. Things work together.

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Seamless:

Graceful:

Aggregation & Disaggregation

Augmentation & Degradation

Tech

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Seamless:

Graceful:

Aggregation & Disaggregation

Augmentation & Degradation

Tech

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Experience

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Microsoft SmartGlass

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In the future, quality of experience will be determined by how products work together, in concert, with the rest of the eco-system, not just by the quality of experience of any product on its own – no matter how good that individual experience will be.

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Connecting the Dots

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