The next ten years of technology will see many of Ray Kurzweils predictions come alive: Embedded, invisible, unwired electricity and internet-based interactions will drive every aspect of our lived environment. The physical and digital worlds are merging, powered by incredible changes in computing, universal connectivity as well as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning. This pending wave is certain to change every aspect of our human-computer interaction.

Major technological leaps present interesting design and UX challenges and require a wholesale shift in perspective by designing for the as-yet unknown. Screens, keyboards, and mouse dominated yesterday and today. Tomorrow, these systems will be initiated, controlled, and tracked through location and environment, semantic context, a wave of the arm, a blink of an eye, a directed gaze, a heartbeat, a crowd-driven trend, even a brainwave.

Whole new approaches and design systems need to be considered for what the next wave of products do, what they look and feel like, and how they can be more meaningful, useful, relevant, and intuitive.

This evenings talk will discuss the UX of tomorrow for the next wave of product design based on some of the very first products and services on the market that hint at the integrated cyborg future to come. We will look at overall trends and review some examples in the market right now from IBMs Watson, Interaxons MUSE, and NYUs Interactive Telecommunications Program. Case study details from each project will illustrate the special challenges of designing for the unknown.

Panel Moderator:

-Beverly May, Executive Director, UX Awards, New York, NY

Panel Speakers:

-Ryan Gossen, Portfolio Design Lead, IBM Watson, Austin TX

-Jay Vidyarthi, UX Director, Interaxon, Inc. (makers of MUSE), Toronto, CA

-Jeff Feddersen, Professor, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program

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