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What People Want From
Technology
Amber Case | @caseorganic
Fellow Harvard Berkman Klein Center
MIT Media Lab
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Calm Technology and the next 50 billion things
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50 billion devices
will be online by
2020. -Cisco
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Sound good?
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Consider…
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The "Smart" Watch
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The "Smart" Fridge
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The Dystopian Kitchen of the Future
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An era of interruptive
technology
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We need a
Calm Technology
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XEROX PARC: mid-90s
Mark Weiser John Seeley Brown
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Designing Calm
Technology
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I. Technology shouldn’t require
all of our attention, just some of
it, and only when necessary
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A Tea Kettle
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II. Technology should
empower the periphery
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LUMOBack Smart Posture Sensor
Buzzes you
when you exhibit
poor posture.
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III. Technology should inform
and encalm
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Weather Status
Lighting
Hue Lightbulb
connected to a
weather report
Aaron Parecki
@aaronpk 2014
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1. Machines shouldn't act like humans
2. Humans shouldn't act like machines
IV. Technology should amplify the
best of technology and the best of
humanity.
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V. Technology can
communicate,
but it doesn’t need to speak
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The Roomba Robotic
Vacuum Cleaner :)
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VII. The right amount of
technology is the minimum
amount to solve the problem
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VIII. Technology should work
even when it fails
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Good design allows people to
accomplish their goals in the least
amount of moves
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Calm Technology allows people to
accomplish the same goals with the
least amount of mental cost
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A person's primary task
should not be computing, but
being human.
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The scarce resource in the 21st
Century will not be technology.
It will be attention. - Mark Weiser
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Calm Technology
@ Amazon.com
And O’Reilly
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Designing with
Sound (2018)
@ Amazon.com
And O’Reilly
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More at calmtechnology.com!
8 Principles at Calmtech.com
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Thank you very much!
Amber Case | @caseorganic
http://caseorganic.com
case@caseorganic.com
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What People Want From Technology

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  1. And that’s why we need a calm technology
  2. And that’s why we need a calm technology