A recent version of "Connected Objects are natural born storyteller", crafted for IoT_now! DISRUPTIVE WEEK @Copernico

1. Connected Objects are
Natural Born Storytellers By Leandro Agrò

2. UX
Internet of Things
IxD
AI, Virtual Assistants
Eye-­‐Tracking
Usability
Mobile & Wearable
AR/VR
Natural / EmoFonal UI
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3. What designers should design, today?
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10. A few things that everyone already knows...
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According 98% of our DNA
Humans = Apes
What makes us... Humans?

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Humans are characterized by
erect posture and bipedal
locomotion; manual dexterity and
increased tool use, compared
to other animals; and a general
trend toward larger, more
complex brains and societies.

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Our small world, as we know it,
is shaped by our tools

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Technological Innovation
is an Evolutionary
Process, that responds
to social innovation.
GeorgeBasalla
We are the consequence
of the TOOLS we use.

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Technologies are shaping us through the
cogniFve (connected) devices we are using

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When
SCI-­‐FI AGE

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When We live on the border between
Cloud FOG compuFng and the IoT Age.
At this stage of technological evoluFon,
being connected is a Darwinian issue
for a product: a key element for it, to
live long and prosper.
SCI-­‐FI AGE

18. Cultural ShiX
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Every Tool, service and
business that jumps into
digital technology, starts to
follow Moore’s Law:
Peter Diamandis
h[p://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9wFXHYJgdo
AcceleraFon changes everything

20. BILLION of connected objects are
knocking to our doors
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21. Placing an object in a pocket, in a car, on a desktop or in
customer’s homes means to create a personal, bi-­‐direcFonal,
always-­‐on, communica;on channel.
BUSINESS IoT??!!

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The INTERNET OF THINGS bridges both the
physical and digital worlds, permibng the power
of the internet to reach everywhere humanity.

23. We are already living a world wide
conversaFon that includes our tools
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We evolve sharing
stories

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Who is actually taking the picture?
Are you smiling?
Are your eyes open?
Who added locaFon?
Who added metadata?
Smartphones are supporFng your storytelling…

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What is real? Who is the arAst?
Algorithm is acFvely proposing a
specific way to tell the story…

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Is this an incepAon?
From where the SELFIE habit come from?
Why do you want to share this picture with “social” friends?
We are the consequence of the tools we use
Mutual influence, induced need, incepFon
Your phone is influencing the
start of a new story

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Proac;ve Panorama
Androids examine every picture you
take -­‐ and -­‐ it proacFvely assembles a
panorama without your request.

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Proac;ve Panorama
Androids examine every picture you
take -­‐ and -­‐ it proacFvely assembles a
panorama without your request.
Your phone is autonomously building a frame of the story

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Build the story
One-­‐click Movie trailer
Families started to collect and
record their special moments in
a brand new way, that is
actually influencing their
lifeFme memories
Your phone is autonomously
building the teaser of a story

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Collec;ng Data
Connected objects are usually smart
enough to play an automa;c
behavior.
For example, make a detecFon each
“x” minutes, or take a picture each
Fme there is a specific condiFon,
etc.
AutomaFc memories are almost a story. In fact, starFng
from a simple acFon repeated in Fme, is easy to create
a visualizaFon that supports a specific storytelling.

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Organizing Data
Visualizing informaFon is already a
first picture of a story.
The right visualizaFon is powerful way
to influence users.
Fitness bracelets records what we do every day.
This extended memory, visualized through a dashboard,
is able to make our behavior measurable and more
understandable.
At the same Fme, the new automa;c, visual and
mathema;cal language of these automa;c
memories is already part of a brand new kind of
storytelling.
Your dashboard is a representaFon of you.
You are your dashboard.
You might desire to achieve a be[er result.

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From interac;on to rela;onship
Luka is an app that gives
recommendaFons in a chat interface.
Users can message with quesFons like
“Anything fun to do tonight?”
Luka then processes those requests and
sends back recommendaFons that are
based not only on the request itself but
your history and preferences.
Luka’s storytelling is influencing your choices

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Lived conversa;on
Today’s 3.0 update to the Telegram
apps makes interacFng with bots
super-­‐easy. In most cases you won’t
even have to type anything, because
bots will provide you with a set of
custom bu[ons.
Bots are simply Telegram accounts operated by soXware –
not people – and they'll oXen have AI features. They can
do anything – teach, play, search, broadcast, remind,
connect, integrate with other services, or even pass
commands to the Internet of Things.
Your personal assistant “talks” with you on social

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A new way for NEWS?
Quartz bot is an app that interacts
with you, offering up news stories
which you can choose to get more
informaFon about or move on to
the next.
People don’t read the news
anymore? Let’s allow computers to
build stories that might fit the users
short a[enFon span.

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knightscope-­‐k5
Skin & hearth
We all are cyborgs
Mission CriAcal autonomous
machines observing us
Autonomous cars learn from all of us -­‐

39. http://www.slideshare.net/DQuid/iot-its-about-brand-collaboration

40. Our Connected Objects started helping us to tell
stories, but they might learn to tell their own stories,
exactly like CARS that are learning to DRIVE.
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Storyteller objects are already influencing the scene.
Younger genera;ons are seeing faces instead screens...
The incoming communicaFon will be a relaFonship in which
objects emerge -­‐from the Fog-­‐ as real en;;es.

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hGp://blog.jibo.com/2016/02/03/animaAng-­‐jibo-­‐with-­‐the-­‐sdk/

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THINGS are evolving faster
than we might expect

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Infuse HUMANITY into everything
(or everything it will evolve without it)

45. @leeander
Connected Objects are Natural Born Storytellers
Thank you