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Designing, Testing and Collabourating with Wearable Apps

Niall Roche

@niallrocheGet in touch n.roche@ucl.ac.uk

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Mobile Developer - pretty much every platform!

Lecturer in Distributed and Mobile technologies

Tech Led at UCL Digital Business Labs

Tec Tech Trainer

Mentor at

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Wearable Web

too much content output to a tiny screen

trying get too much input - keyboards don’t work

existing mental models applied to a new interaction type

take what we have now and make it smaller

while not reducing the set of features

mindset of the designers & clients who did not understand

the limitations of the platform and how it should be used

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distill the important nugget of information

simplify and packaging appropriately

design around short focused activities without

reliance on input & scrolling, using sensible defaults

figure out how to do more with less

glances to represent small units of relevant content

think of the entire journey - wearable to device

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consider battery - offload to devices or cloud

wearables are not smaller smart phones

Context is King

use information is already known about the user and what

can be gathered about location and agenda

inputs available, angle gesture pressure

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• number of notifications and interruptions a Smart Phone

inform us about and how that has changed behaviours

• what important to that user at that moment, in that

location, in their social or work context

• otherwise it may be just a distraction

• filtering should extend beyond notifications and help to

reduce noise

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ServerApp

Data

Notifications

Wearable

Mobile App

Filter

Filter

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NotificationsPresented

to UserPotential

Notifications

user in a meeting

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capture usage

informationinfer

behaviour

apply Machine Learning

get user preferences

adjust notification

settings

Intelligent Notifications

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#NoUI

the best design is invisible

hardware is in general harder to tweak on

the fly that software

iterations are more costly

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testing this is hard, really hard,

research is so important

Validate assumptions

metrics and analyse

in the wild testing

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Phones - Tablets - Beacons - Wearables - Smart Glasses - IoT

The largest open Device Lab in London with 300+ devices.

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why physical device labs?

remote testing can look but can't get feel remotely

mobile apps were standalone or connect to servers

increasingly they now connect to ‘things’

device compatibility, connectivity, reliability,security

network conditions, distances and interference

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dev kits and prototypes for other companies to play with it

hosting events and meetups, Wearable Wednesday

iBeacon Hackathon, bluetooth meetup groups

host your hackathon?

future of retail demonstrators and fashion

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Designing, Testing and Collabourating with Wearable Apps

Niall Roche

@niallrocheGet in touch n.roche@ucl.ac.uk

Thank You

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