Keith Kirkland: Wearable tech that helps you navigate by touch
Keith Kirkland: Tehnologie portabilă ce ne ajută să ne orientăm prin intermediul atingerii
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
or duck, duck, goose as a child?
ori rață, rață și gâscan în copilărie?
we're using touch to understand something.
atingerea pentru a înțelege lucrurile,
the sense of touch.
our entire lives.
when my friend,
walked over behind me.
peste tastatură, a venit la mine,
into the left side of my lower back,
în partea stângă a regiunii lombare,
around to the front of my right shoulder.
mâinii drepte pe umărul drept.
how to improve my posture.
at that very moment
la care lucram atunci
to teach movement using technology.
a mișcării, utilizând tehnologia.
that could teach a person kung fu.
care să învețe o persoană Kung Fu.
to communicate movement
it became crystal clear: touch.
a devenit foarte clar: atingerea.
where she had placed each of her fingers,
acolo unde a pus degetele,
of my current and optimal posture,
poziției mele actuale și cea optimă,
needing to be in the room.
de prezența unui instructor.
of the puzzle that was missing.
importantă din puzzle.
two inches off of your lap,
la 5 cm de poală,
so you know to lift up?
ca să știi cum să ridici mâna?
at the bottom of your wrist,
agreed-upon haptic language
un limbaj tactil stabilit
set out to create that language.
ne-am propus să creăm acest limbaj.
was not a kung fu suit.
nu a fost un costum kung fu.
era chiar mai impresionant
of navigation,
utilizatorul să-și găsească destinația
orient a user toward a destination,
was the right way to go.
că au găsit direcția corectă.
with hundreds of people,
cu sute de oameni,
within about 15 seconds.
cam în 15 secunde.
people out of their phones
pe oameni să renunțe la telefoane,
who stood to benefit most from our work
cel mai mult de pe urma muncii noastre
cu deficiențe de vedere.
a blind organization, they told us,
aceștia ne-au spus:
pentru nevăzători.
for the blind experience."
pentru nevăzători.
with three guiding principles:
WearWorks, pe baza a trei principii:
in our lifetimes
designed for touch.
creată pentru atingere.
of the New York City Marathon
la Maratonul din New York
due to the heavy rain,
din cauza ploii torențiale,
să te orientezi
a complex route using only touch.
to recognize millions of colors
de a recunoaște milioane de culori
complex pitch and tone.
sunete sau tonuri complexe.
telefonică similar codului Morse.
Morse code-like cell phone notifications.
a kiss or a punch,
un sărut sau un pumn,
instinctive and immediate.
ar fi instinctivă și imediată,
catch-up on the back end
încă ar procesa informația
a ceea ce tocmai s-a întâmplat.
of what just occurred.
conscious thought is pretty slow.
gândul conștient e destul de încet,
of language acquisition.
al învățării unei limbi.
German and currently Swedish,
germană și acum suedeză,
of how different languages are organized.
în care sunt organizate diferite limbi.
of well-established languages
lingvistică a limbilor cu tradiție
an entirely new haptic language,
unui limbaj tactil cu totul nou
mechanics wasn't the best way
lingvistice nu era cel mai bun mod
across every culture,
la fel în orice cultură,
underlying mechanism of touch
un mecanism tactil fundamental
and cultural boundaries?
de barierele culturale?
buzz-buzz-buzz, buzz-buzz,
precum buzz-buzz-buzz, buzz-buzz,
vibration means "stop."
we challenged ourselves.
ca pe o provocare.
of being in a vehicle
am fost într-un autovehicul
along with our body's reaction to it.
corpul nostru reacționând și el.
a vibration pattern, sure.
feel like it was the right thing to do.
că trebuie să vă opriți.
assignment of haptic cues to meanings.
arbitrară de semnale tactile mesajelor.
human experience into meaningful insights
umane în perspective semnificative,
gestures and products.
the human ability
abilitatea umană
how we all see the world around us.
în care percepem lumea din jurul nostru.
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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