Presentation given by Mark Billinghurst on Pervasive Social Networking and how wearable devices such as Google Glass can be used for this. Given at the Auckland Social Media Club (SMACKL) on September 18th 2013
5. Generations of Social Networks
Web based (1995 - )
Content + Communication
Mobile (2000 - )
Content + Communication + Mobility
Contextual (2008 - )
Content + Communication + Mobility + Context
6. Pervasive Social Networking
Always on
always available
Always aware
context awareness
Always accessible
intimate user interface
Always connected
Mobility Context
Content
ConnectAccessible
7. Wearable Devices
Always on
Always aware
Always accessible
Always connected
Capture user actions and infer context
18. User Experience
Truly Wearable Computing
Less than 46 ounces
Hands-free Information Access
Voice interaction, Ego-vision camera
Intuitive User Interface
Touch, Gesture, Speech, Head Motion
Access to all Google Services
Map, Search, Location, Messaging, Email, etc
20. Glass Support for Social Networking
Hangouts, Google+, Path
Twitter, Facebook, Tumbler
More to come..
21. New Types of Social Networking
Shared Experiences
"See what I see", first person perspective
Experience capture
Image + audio + context
Life Logging
Continual sensor recording
Face to face augmentation
Translation, information retrieval
22. Wearables + Human Computation
Human Computation
Real people solving problems
difficult for computers
AR attributes
Shared point of view
Real world overlay
Location sensing
What does this say?
30. Scaling Up
Seeing actions of millions of users in the world
Augmentation on city/country level
31. AR + Smart Sensors + Social Networks
Track population at city scale (mobile networks)
Match population data to external sensor data
medical, environmental, etc
Mine data to improve social services
33. Conclusion
Pervasive Social Networking
Always on, accessible, connected, context aware
Wearable computers provide ideal platform
Google Glass, Recon Jet, Vuzix M100
New opportunities for Social Networking
Scaling up, large scale augmentation
34. More Information
Mark Billinghurst
mark.billinghurst@hitlabnz.org
HIT Lab NZ
http://www.hitlabnz.org/