Keith Kirkland: Wearable tech that helps you navigate by touch
Кит Киркланд: Портативная технология, помогающая ориентироваться на ощупь
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?
играли в салочки или жмурки?
we're using touch to understand something.
нам необходимо прикосновение.
the sense of touch.
отношение к осязанию».
our entire lives.
на протяжении всей нашей жизни.
when my friend,
и моя подруга,
walked over behind me.
подошла ко мне сзади,
левой руки слева на поясницу,
into the left side of my lower back,
around to the front of my right shoulder.
правой руки за моё правое плечо.
how to improve my posture.
at that very moment
to teach movement using technology.
движению с помощью технологий.
that could teach a person kung fu.
который учил бы человека Кунг-фу.
to communicate movement
как передать движение
it became crystal clear: touch.
прикосновением.
where she had placed each of her fingers,
у меня стояли вибрирующие сенсоры,
of my current and optimal posture,
в тот момент и о моей оптимальной осанке,
needing to be in the room.
of the puzzle that was missing.
важного компонента.
two inches off of your lap,
от колена при помощи вибрации?
so you know to lift up?
чтобы вы знали, что его надо поднять?
at the bottom of your wrist,
agreed-upon haptic language
общепринятого лексикона
set out to create that language.
приступили к созданию такого языка.
was not a kung fu suit.
оказался не костюм Кунг-фу.
of navigation,
orient a user toward a destination,
was the right way to go.
которое им казалось правильным.
with hundreds of people,
within about 15 seconds.
сориентироваться за 15 секунд.
people out of their phones
оторвать людей от телефонов
who stood to benefit most from our work
что самую большую пользу наша работа
с ограниченным зрением.
в организацию слепых, нам сказали:
a blind organization, they told us,
for the blind experience."
использовать и слепые».
with three guiding principles:
руководствуясь тремя принципами:
in our lifetimes
как можно бóльшую пользу
designed for touch.
созданный для осязания.
of the New York City Marathon
due to the heavy rain,
a complex route using only touch.
на сложном маршруте.
to recognize millions of colors
различать миллионы цветов
complex pitch and tone.
различать сложные звуки и тона.
Morse code-like cell phone notifications.
к вибрации при телефонных сообщениях.
a kiss or a punch,
поцеловать или ударить,
instinctive and immediate.
и незамедлительной,
catch-up on the back end
будет пытаться «догнать»,
of what just occurred.
conscious thought is pretty slow.
of language acquisition.
понимания языка.
German and currently Swedish,
немецкого и вот теперь шведского
of how different languages are organized.
основы организации любого языка.
of well-established languages
установившихся языков
an entirely new haptic language,
нового тактильного языка,
mechanics wasn't the best way
языковые приёмы были не идеальны
across every culture,
одно и то же в любой культуре,
underlying mechanism of touch
всеобщий механизм осязания,
and cultural boundaries?
buzz-buzz-buzz, buzz-buzz,
«бзз-бзз-бзз, бзз-бзз»,
vibration means "stop."
вибраций означает «стой».
we challenged ourselves.
как тактильным дизайнерам.
of being in a vehicle
находиться в машине
along with our body's reaction to it.
когда она резко останавливалась.
a vibration pattern, sure.
feel like it was the right thing to do.
единственно правильной реакцией.
assignment of haptic cues to meanings.
чем случайная комбинация сигналов.
human experience into meaningful insights
ощущения в смысловые ассоциации,
gestures and products.
the human ability
возможности человека
на наше окружение —
how we all see the world around us.
воспринимаем окружающий нас мир.
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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