Pathway #14: Context
CategorySensor overload
I’ve just been speaking to the guys at InvenSense about some of the sensors that they’re working on. This prototype watch makes Nike’s fuelband look like a bangle. It monitors a finer level of motion and orientation along with ambient conditio…
Augmentation without the cyborg
How would the digital experiences central to users’ lives change if they weren’t embodied in a touchscreen slate? Google’s Glass project provides an obvious answer by virtue of the fact it has been much in the news recently. The interest around sm…
MEX Sessions: Louisa Heinrich on context aware UX
Louisa Heinrich came to MEX in September 2012 and challenged participants to think differently about context aware UX. In particular, she questioned to what extent contextual digital experiences properly reflected our innate human flaws and h…
Reporting the future of mobile UX from MEX 2012
The 11th international MEX set out to define best practice and create new ideas in 6 Pathways – Diffusion, Concurrency, Sensation, Context, Clarity and Speed – each focused on a specific aspect of mobile user experience.
Exploration of thes…
A winning context
MEX Pathway #14 is our ongoing exploration of context aware user experience, something we’re working on closely with Qualcomm. One aspect of the Pathway examines the contextual relationship between humans and the machines trying to understand the…
The day the world talked back
Contextually response digital experiences (the subject of Pathway #14) rely on information about the user’s world. The quantity of this information is increasing, with new sensors emerging to track and inform. Two that have caught my eye recentl…
Context next
The first step towards building contextually responsive digital experiences is to establish a baseline of quality achievable even when there is no contextual information to respond to. As paradoxical as this may sound, the very nature of mobile d…
Anticipating user needs
This video explores how Consia, a device resident technology from Qualcomm, tracks user behaviour and uses the knowledge to enhance the experience, from low level decisions about battery life and radio usage, to UI tweaks. It is part of a broad…