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the hi:project

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The hi:project may very well become the epitome of Vendor Relationship Management for individuals.

The hi:project has the potential to solve that evergreen challenge to create a seamless experience so we can become one with the information we seek to understand.

The next challenge for human organizations is to leverage ever more intelligent machines while enhancing human dignity and relationships.

The world needs this.

We’re all human. We’re also all now on one worldwide network, and we need to keep that human too.

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This is a really important issue. The Web Science Trust will plan to work closely with the hi:project as things move forward.

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Lall the time. And whether there’s a plan for it or not, it’s all being squirrelled away. But to become something more useful, we need to rethink that interaction.

Yes we invented the UI. Well done. Good job. But what since? The world has moved on but the essence of UI hasn’t. How can we make our interactions more useful, more interesting, more valuable all round?

et’s talk about data, how we interact with it and the organizations who collect it. One minute there was hardly any data, but nowit’s bubbling up out of everything, everywhere,

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Yneed usability. We need our data to make sense to us. Otherwise we’re left in the dark, unsure of what’s known about us, and uneasy of those who know it.

es we need change. Especially in the world of personal data where UIs are tailored to the fictitious ‘everyman’. We need clarity. WeY

need usability. We need our data to make sense to us. Otherwise we’re left in the dark, unsure of what’s known about us, and uneasy of those who know it.

es we need change. Especially in the world of personal data where UIs are tailored to the fictitious ‘everyman’. We need clarity. We

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Ainstils doubt. But a UI designed for ‘everyone’ is not so great for anyone. We’re individuals, not averages.

To have an interface we can understand demands one that understands us.

nd as for those organizations collecting the data, well, this is their problem too. People judge them by the interface. It earns our trust or

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It’s time to get personal. It’s time for an interface that makes sense to us. One that’s every bit as unique as we are. One that knows us,

helps us, talks our language.

We call this the Human Interface (or HI between friends). And it works like this …

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Firstly, it gets to know you a little. Nothing creepy, just aligning to your way of thinking. And once it’s familiar, it works with those organizations you do

business with to assemble your personal service and personal data into your perfect personalized interface. One that’s neither too this or too that but one that’s just right for you.

You may be a visual thinker, a pie chart lover, a list junkie or trend addict. Whatever it is that does it for you, your HI can do. No bother.

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Narranged into broader lifestyle topics, allowing patterns and behaviours to reveal insight and discovery.

ext comes context. The service and your data can no longer be seen as a detached compartment of your life but as a facet of a whole that can be

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50 year old construct fit for20th Century computing

for the pervasive digital environment of the 21st Century

up close to the machine up close to the individual

designed for an ‘average’ user created uniquely for the individual

the organization’s the individual’s

the user must fit to the machine fits the products to the individual

provides interactive information enables knowledge building

degrees of awkwardness ideal, so ‘disappears’

largely static design dynamic, in the moment

‘the interface is the product’ the product is the product

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Strust and loyalty, freeing up their time and money to focus on what they actually do for you.

ound good? Of course. Everyone wins. You get the most from your personal service and data and the organizations get to delight you at less cost and with less risk, building

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ASo be gone days of the user, welcome back the human.

nd because this is an open platform, this love-in will just go on and on and on. Its potential is only limited by the imagination of the community that believes in it.

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UI / UX & HCI more broadly

social business & digital

transformation

sociology

decentralized architecture

vendor relationship

management

quantified self

organised self

internet of things

education & learning future

public relations

privacy

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The individual’s problem, our opportunity Unsure of and uneasy about the information organizations hold / Clarity and comprehension

are thwarted by multiple, inconsistent and too often poor UIs / Ever increasing things to interface with / No way to visualize or contextualize information spanning organizations.

The organization’s problem, our opportunity View UI as a costly risk encompassing different devices and different users with different expectations, yet must also build brand trust by being more open, more accessible, and

more helpful, particularly as trust correlates to customer loyalty and future revenues.

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The hi:project interfaces cover all manner of services constituting the major facets of life. Developed openly and freely in collaboration with anyone who wants to join in, the

project can be considered in three parts:

Developing the framework The framework details the dynamic of the hi:engine, the personalization

data and HI components available to it, and privacy parameters.

Developing the hi:engine The hi:engine is the personal

software platform that assembles the interface that aspires to be

perfectly yours.

Developing the components The materials the hi:engine works with: data and information models;

graphical libraries; methods for adapting information appropriate to the topic, the individual and context.

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Your hi:engine assembles the interface in the moment based on your individual needs and preferences, familiarity and proclivities,

progressively enhancing and reducing, adapting to device and context.

Client

Web/App Server

Back-end

hi:server

hi:engine

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We enable organizations to provide services through HI.An organization’s established suite of UI is more costly and more risky to maintain than adopting our HI, and switching

costs are less than an iteration of their current solution. It’s our dynamic to get this show on the road.

Would you like to give customers a far superior experience – one that builds participation, trust and loyalty, and secures market differentiation – with no loss of control, no capital expenditure,

reduced risk and lower operating expense?

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We’re first, we’re synonymous with this development, and all instances are linked by trademark.

Once individuals have experienced one of our trademark HIs we believe they’ll demonstrate a preference for other products and services adopting HI.

The individual becomes increasingly invested in their hi:engine’s understanding and servicing of their needs and preferences.

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The long-term ramifications of the HI network topology are intriguing.

From the 90s Organizations present websites

and apps customers can interact with. There’s limited or

zero facility to wield data or personalize the experience and

users must like it or lump it.

From the 00s Third parties connect users to each other and organizations, centralizing and intermediating

relationships. Their UI and policies do not correspond with ours here. As the saying goes,

the users are the product.

From the 10s HI is simple and powerful – the interface that’s ‘perfectly yours’.

The network is decentralizedand relationships are

disintermediated. Data / info spanning organizations can be visualized and contextualized.

Organization Interface Individual Relationship

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Open and voluntary We are open to all persons willing to volunteer and accept the responsibilities of membership. Sociocratic We are member-governed based on consent-based decision making and decentralized autonomy. Participation Members contribute value knowing the value derived by the organization and society more widely will be maximised when we all contribute more together.

Autonomy and independence By members for members, end of. Transparent All information is open and public, excepting respect for individuals’ security and privacy. Learning and education Information and knowledge is most valuable when made open and accessible to all. Co-operation We seek to work with

others who subscribe to similar values and principles. Community We care for humanity and environmental sustainability; the two are inseparable.

Due respect to the Rochdale Principles.

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We cherish unity of purpose but not unity of thought; consensus best follows dissensus.

Our members hold dear the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity, honesty,

openness, social responsibility and caring for others.

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We plan to deliver the hi:project and live up to the principles and values with a decentralized application (DApp) – a new model for

building successful and massively scalable applications.

A DApp is completely open-source, operates autonomously, with no entity controlling the majority of its tokens, and its data and

records of operation are cryptographically stored in a blockchain-powered incorruptible decentralized database.

It generates tokens needed to use the application, and contributions from members are rewarded with these tokens.

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eg, medical, social,education, banking

likely beginning with B2Cchallenger brands

eg, customers, employees,family members, citizens

Develop HI Deploy HI Enjoy & deploy HI

eg, engineers,developers, designers

affinity with the hi:project’sprinciples and values

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Earn hi:tokensby building outthe hi:project

Buy hi:tokens

needed forHI access

Pay forcontent &services

eg, engineers,developers, designers

eg, medical, social,education, banking

affinity with the hi:project’sprinciples and values

likely beginning with B2Cchallenger brands

eg, customers, employees,family members, citizens

People &organizations

crowd-commission

new HIcapabilities

Earn hi:tokens

in permittingHI access

Develop HI Deploy HI Enjoy & deploy HI

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