Keith Kirkland: Wearable tech that helps you navigate by touch
كيث كيركلاند: تقنية يمكنك ارتداؤها تساعدك على التنقل باستخدام اللمس
Keith Kirkland is the cofounder of WearWorks, a company that builds products and experiences that communicate information through touch. Full bio
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the roof of your mouth
أو لعبة التسلل عندما كنتم صغارًا؟
or duck, duck, goose as a child?
we're using touch to understand something.
لنفهم شيئًا ما.
أو ما يتعلق بحاسة اللمس.
the sense of touch.
our entire lives.
when my friend,
walked over behind me.
into the left side of my lower back,
على الجانب الأيسر أسفل ظهري،
around to the front of my right shoulder.
إلى كتفي الأيمن من الأمام.
how to improve my posture.
تلك اللحظة بالضبط
at that very moment
to teach movement using technology.
لتعليم الحركة باستخدام التقنية.
that could teach a person kung fu.
على تعليم مرتديها الكونج فو.
to communicate movement
عن كيفية إيصال توجيه الحركات
it became crystal clear: touch.
أصبحت واضحة وضوح الشمس: اللمس.
where she had placed each of her fingers,
حيث وضعت كلاً من إصبعيها،
of my current and optimal posture,
لوضعيتي الحالية والمثالية،
needing to be in the room.
of the puzzle that was missing.
two inches off of your lap,
بوصتين عن أحضانكم،
so you know to lift up?
لتعرفوا أن عليكم رفعها؟
at the bottom of your wrist,
agreed-upon haptic language
set out to create that language.
was not a kung fu suit.
of navigation,
orient a user toward a destination,
لتوجيه شخص نحو جهة معينة،
was the right way to go.
شعروا أنها كانت الطريقة الصحيحة للسير.
with hundreds of people,
within about 15 seconds.
في غضون 15 ثانية.
للتخلي عن هواتفهم المحمولة
people out of their phones
who stood to benefit most from our work
من عملنا
a blind organization, they told us,
قالوا لنا:
for the blind experience."
with three guiding principles:
وتبنينا ثلاثة مبادىء توجيهية:
in our lifetimes
designed for touch.
of the New York City Marathon
من ماراثون مدينة نيويورك
due to the heavy rain,
بسبب الأمطار الغزيرة،
باستخدام حاسة اللمس فقط.
a complex route using only touch.
to recognize millions of colors
بين ملايين الألوان
complex pitch and tone.
ونبرات معقدة.
Morse code-like cell phone notifications.
الشبيهة بشفرة مورس.
a kiss or a punch,
instinctive and immediate.
catch-up on the back end
of what just occurred.
conscious thought is pretty slow.
فإن التفكير المتعمد بطيء.
of language acquisition.
German and currently Swedish,
والسويدية حاليًا،
of how different languages are organized.
خلاصة كيفية إعداد اللغات المختلفة.
of well-established languages
لبعض اللغات الراسخة العريقة
an entirely new haptic language,
mechanics wasn't the best way
ليست أفضل طريقة
across every culture,
في جميع الثقافات،
underlying mechanism of touch
and cultural boundaries?
buzz-buzz-buzz, buzz-buzz,
buzz-buzz-buzz, buzz-buzz
vibration means "stop."
we challenged ourselves.
of being in a vehicle
along with our body's reaction to it.
ويعرف جميعنا ردة فعل أجسامنا لذلك الحدث.
a vibration pattern, sure.
feel like it was the right thing to do.
كانت الأمر الصحيح الذي يجب فعله.
assignment of haptic cues to meanings.
عشوائية لإشارات لمسية.
human experience into meaningful insights
التجربة البشرية إلى أفكار ذات مغزى
gestures and products.
the human ability
القدرة البشرية
how we all see the world around us.
جميعًا للعالم من حولنا.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Keith Kirkland - Haptic designerKeith Kirkland is the cofounder of WearWorks, a company that builds products and experiences that communicate information through touch.
Why you should listen
Navigation is inherently visual, and nowhere is that more clear than for the 285 million people in the world living with a visual impairment. With WAYBAND, a wrist-wearable haptic navigation device for the blind and visually impaired, WearWorks has created and patented an intuitive way to guide a person to a destination using vibration, without the need for any visual or audio cues. In 2017, WAYBAND was used to help a person who is blind run the first 15 miles of the NYC marathon without sighted assistance.
Kirkland is a public speaker, mechanical engineer, accessories designer and industrial designer with experience developing innovation-based concepts and experiences. He has worked with organizations ranging from the MET Museum, The Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, Unilever, Futureworks, Mini Cooper, Discovery Channel, Dropbox, The Yokohama Government, Coach and the National Science Foundation.
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