TECHNOLOGY
Computers are everywhere . In toasters , washing machines , refrigerators , cars , and thermostats ( to name an arbitrary few ). At last year ’ s Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) - Mecca for tech geeks - Intel CEO Brian Krzanich showed off ‘ Curie ’; a computer so small he wore it as a suit button on stage .
We live in a world of ubiquitous computers . But right now , the way we interact with them is so awkward that people question their very utility .
As UX / UI design guru Golden Krishna describes the modern connected oven : “ We slap a seven inch , Android-powered touchscreen on it so you can watch YouTube while you bake cookies .”
The problem here is a failure of metaphor . We think about the ‘ computer ’ inside the oven like a desktop computer . We know that , to talk to it , it needs a few basic ingredients : a screen , some kind of desktop and - of course - a QWERTY keyboard . To change how we interact with these new forms of computers , we have to change how we think about computing itself .
What if , when you thought about
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using your computer at home , the thing that jumped to mind wasn ’ t the familiar setup : screen , keyboard , pointer , and processor . What if it was just your home itself ? Many interconnected pieces that you could control simply and easily from
22 July 2016