Keith Kirkland: Wearable tech that helps you navigate by touch
کیث کرکلند: تکنولوژی پوشیدنی که با لامسه در مسیریابی به شما کمک میکند
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?
گرگم به هوا بازی میکردید؟
we're using touch to understand something.
ما از حس لامسه استفاده میکنیم.
the sense of touch.
our entire lives.
زندگیمان از آن استفاده کردهایم.
when my friend,
walked over behind me.
تایپ میکنم آمد پشت سرم ایستاد.
into the left side of my lower back,
around to the front of my right shoulder.
را به قسمت جلو سرشانه راستم میرساند.
how to improve my posture.
at that very moment
to teach movement using technology.
با استفاده ازتکنولوژِی کار میکردم.
that could teach a person kung fu.
که بتواند به آدمها کنگ فو یاد بدهد.
to communicate movement
it became crystal clear: touch.
برایم روشن شد: با لامسه.
where she had placed each of her fingers,
که دوستم انگشتانش را گذاشته بود داشتم
of my current and optimal posture,
فعلی بدن من جفت میشد،
needing to be in the room.
of the puzzle that was missing.
از این پازل پیدا نشده بود.
two inches off of your lap,
از ارتعاش مچ دستم را ۵ سانتیمتر
so you know to lift up?
تا بدانید دستتان را بلند کنید؟
at the bottom of your wrist,
agreed-upon haptic language
پذیرفته شدهای که بشود با آن
set out to create that language.
که چنین زبانی خلق کنیم.
was not a kung fu suit.
کارایی که داشت
of navigation,
orient a user toward a destination,
را با استفاده از علامتهای ارتعاش
was the right way to go.
with hundreds of people,
روی صدها شخص امتحان کردیم،
within about 15 seconds.
از آن سر در میآورند.
people out of their phones
مردم را از گوشیهایشان بیرون بکشیم
who stood to benefit most from our work
به درد افراد ایستادهای میخورد
a blind organization, they told us,
موسسه نابینایان رفتیم آنها گفتند
که همه بتوانند استفاده کنند
for the blind experience."
بیشترین بهره را ببرد.»
with three guiding principles:
سه اصل بنا کردهایم:
in our lifetimes
میتوانیم بگذاریم را خلق کنیم
designed for touch.
لامسه طراحی شده دوباره تصورکنیم.
of the New York City Marathon
due to the heavy rain,
او را همراهی کند
a complex route using only touch.
تنها با کمک لامسه امکان پذیر است.
to recognize millions of colors
complex pitch and tone.
Morse code-like cell phone notifications.
a kiss or a punch,
ببوسد یا نیشگون بگیرد،
instinctive and immediate.
catch-up on the back end
of what just occurred.
conscious thought is pretty slow.
غریزی بسیار کند است.
of language acquisition.
مثل شلیک یک گلوله میماند.
German and currently Swedish,
کردم که با درجات مختلفی
of how different languages are organized.
چگونه زبانها طرح ریزی شدهاند.
of well-established languages
زبانهای معتبر استفاده کنیم
an entirely new haptic language,
mechanics wasn't the best way
استفاده میکنید جنبه فنی آن بهترین راه
across every culture,
یک چیز است،
underlying mechanism of touch
سازوکارهای زیرین لمس
and cultural boundaries?
فرهنگی فراتر میرود؟
buzz-buzz-buzz, buzz-buzz,
ارتعاشاتی بدهم
vibration means "stop."
we challenged ourselves.
به چالش کشیدیم.
of being in a vehicle
که وقتی درماشین هستیم
along with our body's reaction to it.
توقف ناگهانی واکنش نشان میدهد.
a vibration pattern, sure.
feel like it was the right thing to do.
assignment of haptic cues to meanings.
نشانههای لمسی نیست و با معنا کار دارد.
human experience into meaningful insights
تجربه انسانی را با بینشی پرمعنا درآمیزد
gestures and products.
the human ability
گستردهتر میکند
how we all see the world around us.
به دنیای اطرافمان تغییر دهیم.
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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