Devices and Networking Summit - Session 6, The Next Big Hurdle

Опубликовано 18 августа 2016, 20:06

Chair: Bill Buxton, Microsoft Research Speakers: Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, Université Paris Sud; Caroline Hummels, Eindhoven University of Technology; Jarnail Chudge, Microsoft The ‘Next Big Thing’ is not a thing. It is neither a device, application, nor service. Rather, it is a reconceptualisation of the social relationships amongst these technologies. It is a change which helps us avoid the otherwise inevitability of our users being buried under the cumulative complexity of the increasing number of devices, applications and services that we, as an industry, create. Rather than pursue the ‘Next Big Thing,’ it is far more important that we focus on the ‘Next Big Hurdle’ that this progressive accumulation of complexity presents. To overcome this hurdle we need to see through different eyes, asking such questions as: What if things just worked? What if they just worked together? What if they worked together seamlessly? What if in working together, there was a significant increase in their cumulative value? What if in working together, there was a significant decrease in their cumulative complexity? The founding premise of this session is that it would be far more disruptive, and beneficial to all, if the challenge emerging from each of these questions was achieved through a change in the relationship amongst existing devices, applications and services, rather than any ‘new thing’. The society of technologies will not evolve simply because their technology matures, but rather because their mutual relations are transformed. This panel will discuss the nature of just such a transformation.