Keynote by Fabio Sergio, Creative Director at frog design, at Frontiers of Interaction V in Rome. Fabio takes digital interaction physical and discusses how our body will become a terminal and node for communication. "that thing absorbing and beaming bits won’t be a device you’ll be wearing. it will be you".

1. Singing the body electric
Fabio Sergio
June 2009

2. social networks
smart cities
internet of things
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3. 3

4. the body as a terminal
the body as a node
(the body as a conduit)
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5. ubicomp

6. 6

7. ubi-conn

8. Julian Bleeker, 2006
“ We are now in an era
of pervasive networks
and are thus more properly
“in”, not “on” the network.
Careful choice of prepositions
helps to think more clearly
about not only the stakes of
cohabiting with things within
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9. Timo Arnall, 2008 | www.nearfield.org
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10. ubi-comm

11. co-dependence
Kevin Kelly, “The next 5000 days of the web”, 2008

12. the body as a terminal
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13. “A cochlear implant, as it is known,
would trigger my auditory nerves with 16
electrodes that snaked inside my inner ear.”
Michael Chorost, Wired, November 2005
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14. the (first) weird question

15. When will we start to consider
having a face to face conversation
over the phone?

16. Jawbone | www.jawbone.com
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17. Lyric Hearing | www.lyrichearing.com
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18. ubi.comm +
noise suppression +
in-ear +
I hear voices: yours

20. Mac Fuminazu | http://petitinvention.wordpress.com
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21. visible, invisible, visible

22. Wikitude | www.mobilizy.com
“
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23. contemplating
your own discomfort
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24. Ralph Bremenkamp | www.frogdesign.com

25. William Gibson, Neuromancer, 1984

26. “Borgs” outside the MIT, circa 1995

27. Pranav Mistry, 6th Sense, MIT, 2009

28. the (second) weird question

29. would you give away an eye,
to have it replaced with a camera?

30. Rob Spence | www.eyborgblog.com

31. Rob Spence | www.eyborgblog.com

32. more contemplation time

33. Philips Design probe, 2007, SKIN: tattoo

34. Jim Mielke, sub-dermal bluetooth display, 2008

35. the body as a node

36. Google Latitude | www.google.com/latitude

37. Suunto | www.suunto.com
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38. Nintendo Wii | www.wii.com

39. frog design, e-monitors, 2009

40. Dexcom | www.dexcom.com www.sixuntilme.com beclever.wordpress.com

41. mass-market enablers
are here already

42. Apple iPhone 3.0 & LifeScan

43. Lee Maguire, 2009
“ So what happens when
the device that records
your medical status
is also the device
you use to update
your social connections?”

44. your heartbeat becomes
a conversation

45. one last consideration
one last reference
one last (weird) question

46. photo: Tony Blay
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47. that thing absorbing and beaming
bits won’t be a device
you’ll be wearing.
it will be you

48. “I can see through satellites now”
Warren Ellis & Adi Granov, Iron Man, 2008

49. we know how that feels, right?

51. how quickly is augmented reality
leading us to feel the need
for an augmented body
to fully take advantage of it?

52. in other words...

53. would you give an eye
to see through satellites?

55. fabio.sergio@frogdesign.com