Invitation to
Week of Wearables
Meet: Anders Nissen, Harddisken, Carl Alvani, Ziba
Learn: hardware, software, design, interaction
Build: your own prototype
25-28 November 2014 Copenhagen
New markets and trends are arising within the wearable technology field. For both users
and businesses, wearable technology presents an opportunity to find exciting ways to
integrate technologies with our bodies and personalize our relationship with technology
more than ever before.
In the Week of Wearables frontend researchers, writers and companies will present their
view on this new field of technology. Entrepreneurs and developers will be showcasing
their products and ways of working. Finally, you are invited to develop your own concept
and build a rough prototype of it, with assistance of experts on the area of design,
electronics, concept and interaction.
We will primarily be focusing on the domains:
 Wearables and sports
 Wearables and quantified self
 Wearables and kids
As a special focus WoW will be working with the possibility of using wearables as a solution
to integrating more sports in Danish schools, as the new school reform requires.
This is a follow-up on a ChangeWork workshop arranged by DDC partnered by the
Municipality of Copenhagen. If this is your main interest, sign up under the development
track focusing on kids.
Program
Tuesday
Inspiration
9.30 - 9.45
Welcome
9.45 – 10.30
Wearables that work, 10 lessons from the field
Carl Alviani, Content Strategist at Ziba
In the past few years, wearable technology has evolved from a
theoretical playground into a viable category of consumer goods, and
it is forcing designers to look closely at the details that make them
adoptable and successful. Drawing on recent projects from our own
studio, as well as examples from the broader market, Carl Alviani from
Ziba presents ten hard-won lessons for designing wearables that
actually work.
10.30 – 11.10
Internet of sports, Stina Nylander
Stina Nylander, PhD and Senior Research Scientist at SICS Swedish ICT
and Mobile Life Centre
Stina Nylander is leading the project ”Internet of Sports” at Mobile
Life, where she is exploring how to design the next generation of
services for sports and physical activity. A wide range of sensors for
body metrics are available, and many consumer products for exercise
and sports have been released in the past few years. At Mobile Life she
has been looking at how we can use this technology to enhance the
experience of doing sports and avoid reducing humans to data in a
number of design projects and service prototypes.
11.10 - 11.30
The Leikr Product - How to deliver innovation that is relevant for
the end user
Cristiano Cairo, Product Management, Sales and Marketing, Acorn
Projects-Leikr
Consumer electronics are a fast-paced industry. Cristiano Cairo from
Leikr will present his work with advanced sports electronics and give
an insight on how winning products have to drive immediate and
recognizable benefits to emerge from the crowd.
11.30 - 12.30
Lunch
12.30 - 13.15
Quantified Self
Anders Høeg Nissen, Writer and Journalist at DR
The process of collecting, analyzing and acting on data about ourselves
and our surroundings has many use cases, both in our personal
lives and in healthcare and other public and business areas. And there
are many gadgets, apps and services with a huge potential, but also
many challenges. How do you start collecting data? How can you use
them? I'll take a personal look at the devices and services that help us
track ourselves, and I’ll take a look at some of the trends and
technologies that shape both the QS movement as well as the rest of
our digital world, from sensor networks and augmented reality to
wearables and artificial intelligence.
13.15 - 14.15
Kids & Movement - A potential business area for wearables
Jesper Sell, Municipality of Copenhagen, Children & Youth Administration
In the new reform of Danish schools, physical activity has to be a
natural part of daily activities. This has for some schools been
perceived as a challenge, difficult to meet. How to integrate
movement and exercise with the other activities at school? NN will
introduce us to their challenges around boosting physical activity in
schools, as the basis for developing wearable solutions.
14.15 - 14.45
Break
14.45 - 15.30
Wearables: Why Poetry Matters
Rikke Koch, Senior Concept Developer, Wearables, the Alexandra Institute
In recent years, the wearables field has moved towards gadgets and
away from smart textiles. There are many good reasons for this, e.g.
that the plastic-based gadgets are more stable and less fragile. With
these gadgets we see some typical ways of communicating information
to the user. But before we become too immersed in the world of
wristbands, earplugs and smart watches measuring our physical status
and communicating them in hard numbers, we should consider which
possibilities of communication we leave behind. With the point of
departure in wearable prototypes developed at the Alexandra
Institute, Rikke Koch will talk about modes of communication in
wearables and the necessity for poetic communication when the
technology is attached to our bodies day and night.
15.30 - 16.00
Wrap up
Wednesday
Developing the concept
9.30 - 9.45
Welcome again
9.45 - 10.45
Modelling of new wearables
Morten Wagner, Head of IdemoLab, DELTA
Morten will talk about how you can facilitate understanding and
discussions of possible future wearables, using agile modeling methods
like electronic sketching. Morten will describe and demonstrate
IdemoLab’s toolbox of both methods and technologies, that helps
anticipate and reveal user needs and corresponding technologies.
10.45 - 11.45
Concept development phase 1, 3 tracks:
1. Sports - facilitated by the Alexandra Institute
2. Quantified self - facilitated by DELTA
3. Kids - facilitated by the IT-University of Copenhagen
By using different methods we will define a range of rough ideas for
wearables within the field sports, quantified self and kids.
We will end the session by choosing which idea we will elaborate into a
well-described concept after lunch.
11.45 - 12.45
Lunch
12.45 - 16.00
Concept development, phase 2, focusing on one idea
Within the areas sports, quantified self, kids we will elaborate on a
chosen idea and develop it into a concept, describing target group, use
scenario, input and output etc.
The sessions are facilitated by the Alexandra Institute, DELTA and the
IT-University of Copenhagen.
In the sessions, experts within the fields design, interaction,
electronics and software will participate, as well as experts within the
fields sports, quantified self and kids.
16.00 - 16.30
Wrap up
Thursday
Building the prototype
9.30 - 9.45
Welcome again
9.45 - 11.45
Getting ready to build:
Identifying what is needed to build the prototype.
Drawing the electronic circuit.
Defining design and interaction design.
The sessions will be facilitated by the Alexandra Institute, DELTA and
the IT-University of Copenhagen.
In the sessions, experts within the fields design, interaction,
electronics and software will participate, as well as experts within the
fields sports, quantified self and kids.
11.45-12.45
Lunch
12.45-16.00
Building the prototype
Now the prototype will be built. We will have the opportunity to use
the facilities for this at DELTA, including laser cutter etc.
or
12.45-16.00
About regulations for wearables
TBA, DELTA
Hear about the challenges and avoid the pitfalls concerning the
regulations developing and producing wearables
16.00-16.30
Wrap up
Friday
Bits & Beers + show off at Republikken
You can present your prototype, parts of it or your concept.
17.00-18.00
Presentation of prototypes
18.00-?
Beers and networking
Practicalities
Date:
25 - 28 November 2014
Time:
9.30 - 16.30
Place:
Tuesday
Danish Design Centre
H.C. Andersens Boulevard 27
1553 Copenhagen V
Wednesday
IT-University of Copenhagen
Rued Langgaards Vej 7
2300 Copenhagen S
Thursday
DELTA
Venlighedsvej 4
2970 Hørsholm
Friday
Republikken
Vesterbrogade 26
1620 København V
Price:
½ day
1 day
1½ days
2 days
600 DKK
1100 DKK
1700 DKK
2100 DKK
The first day is free of charge. If you sign up only for the first day, you
will have the opportunity on the day to register for the remaining days
against payment.
Registration is necessary, and there is a no-show fee of DKK 500.
Participation in the Bits & Beers Friday at Republikken is free of charge.
Register:
Sign up here
Deadline:
18 November 2014
Contact:
susanne.broendberg@alexandra.dk