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What is Glass?

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http://www.google.com/glass/start/what-it-does/

A more detailed infographic: http://www.smartinsights.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/how-does-google-glass-work.jpg

Glass’s implications

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Positive social implications of Glass

›  Access to data privately ›  Triggers / notifications can be shown to user without others noticing

›  Recording hands-free ›  Ad-hoc video recording and streaming from new camera

perspectives, “you see exactly what I see”

›  Exploring new places enriched ›  Navigation made easy ›  Enriching physical world data

›  Pervasive Gaming ++ ›  Augmented reality brings new possibilities for playing

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Negative social implications of Glass

›  Distraction ›  e.g. any movement in field of vision cause distraction ›  For important notifications to be noticeable and other notifications to not

distract, delicate design will be needed

›  Privacy ›  E.g. video recording in public places ›  Facial recognition ›  “Glassholes” ›  Hacking Glass gives access to all that the person sees and hears

›  Absentness ›  Using Glass in social situations requiring attention is impolite

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Socially “present”

At Society Level

›  Huge advances in different fields possible ›  E.g. military, health care, navigation, exploring

›  Digitalization of manual tasks ›  Maybe even replacing professionals? ›  E.g. dental assistant replaced by a software that adds notes via

dentist’s talk to the dental map during a check-up routine and shows the dental map in Glass.

›  Policies ›  Glasses will be banned from many places at least in the beginning

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Where can Glass be used?

›  Health care ›  Dental pics ›  X-ray pics

›  Police, security ›  Facial recognition

›  Memory aid ›  Recording and streaming

›  Benchmarking ›  Scanning products for price

comparison online or for more info

›  Advertising ›  Pay-per-glance advertising

›  Google holds a patent for this

›  Military ›  Endless possibilities

›  Navigation ›  Google Now ›  Travel guides

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Glass and UX Design

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Designing apps for Glass

›  Not all apps should be ported to Glass ›  E.g. would you rather browse the web using Glass or with a mobile phone / tablet?

›  Think of the context of use and whether they benefit from hands-free interaction ›  E.g. When cooking, hands-free access to a recipe is a great improvement

›  Complex and vast amount of data not easy to browse with Glass ›  E.g. Even Google search prefers to answer a search query with a preformatted single page

presentation (e.g. current weather infograph) rather than in normal search result lists.

›  In-app navigation should be ridiculously easy ›  Tapping / clicking is not easy using a touch area on the side of the glass ›  Voice-controlled navigation is even harder

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Multidevice interaction

›  Paired Glass + mobile phone + watch + ? ›  Consider when to have a standalone Glass app and when that app should

communicate with other devices ›  Research into the possible role of different devices

›  Most probably launching apps, writing, interaction heavy tasks are done with other devices ›  Viewing and recording done via Glass? ›  What else?

›  When interaction can be augmented to utilize even muscle moments of the arm (find reference), controlling Glass UI becomes easier too

›  Glass is just one device, one source of data, in the wearable technology scheme ›  Intelligent clothes ›  Smart watches ›  Smart glasses ›  Etc

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Competing products

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Summary

›  Google Glass is hot new technology and research facilities around the globe are investing to find new applications for the technology

›  Glass might not yet be “mainstream” but it is already used by specialists in different fields ›  e.g. in hospitals to aid doctors during surgery ›  Should it become mainstream, more considerations in design are needed.

›  Glass is just the beginning of a revolution in wearable computing ›  We will see many competing products

›  Interaction with Glass is not very smooth ›  But image it paired with your watch, smartphone or other devices with better interaction

possibilities

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Google Glass in Vogue, September, 2013

Haute couture?

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