There is a new category of technology that is emerging across the world, in which a system does complex work on behalf of its user. In these agentive systems, a low-level artificial intelligence acts as an agent on a user’s behalf to accomplish some task. It delivers on the promises of user-centered design more than ever before, but will require that businesses, designers, governments, and technologists think of them distinctly and design for them differently. It will require them to master new scenarios and new tools.
The Dawn of Agentive Technology: The UX of “soft” AI
Chris Noessel
A 20+ year veteran of interaction design, Christopher designs products and services for a variety of domains, including health, financial, and consumer. He also teaches, speaks about, and evangelizes design internationally. His spidey-sense goes off semi-randomly, leading him to investigate and speak about a range of things from interactive narrative to ethnographic user research, interaction design to generative randomness, and designing for the future. He is co-author of Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction (Rosenfeld Media, 2012), co-author of About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, 4th Edition (Wiley, 2015) and keeper of the blog scifiinterfaces.com. He […]
When?
02.03.2016
14:00–15:00
Where?
Finlandia Hall Main Stage
