Talk / Robotics
The Robots are Coming!
Dan Saffer
OMG now we're designing robots?!? Yep, we're starting to, and in the future we'll be designing even
more. R2D2 here we come!
The next wave of technology is about to come crashing down on us, and surfing that wave are robots of all kinds, from household companions to industrial robots to self-driving vehicles and drones. These robots (who are themselves a kind of service) will infiltrate all manner of services, from taking on front-of-house duties to assembling and delivering goods. But incorporating robots into service or creating new services is, not surprisingly, a design challenge. This talk uses my experience designing a home robot to teach lessons about designing services with robots involved. Safety, privacy, displaying robot intent, cooperation and movement between humans and robots…all of these need to be considered when adding robots to services. This may sound like scifi, but it’s happening now.
About the speaker
Dan Saffer
A designer who works at Twitter, I am also the author of four books on interaction design, most recently Microinteractions. I was also one of the founding Board members of the IxDA and the first co-chair of the Interaction conference. I've designed almost everything there is to design, including robots.