Karl A L Smith

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IoT

#Alive and Present #Everywhere open #IoT3 Ecosystems #SmartLiving

Introduction The IoT is a much marketed term as the future of all things; the IoT is interconnected landscape of life experiences and transactions What is the IoT, how is it intended to work and how does that relate to how…

Situational awareness drives open IoT Ecosystems not visual interfaces

The foundation for this thinking goes back to a notion of the ‘social life of things’ . If things themselves exist and have a number of trajectories and states then those things also potentially have accessible and useful human touch…

#IoT #Products for the IoT #Economy, its all about #Productization

It should be clear by now to observers of how businesses who are being successful are changing. For them IoT is not just another name for Technology or a Delivery Channel but it is a Pervasive Customer Engagement Productization. As…

#IoT #Ecosystems require #Ontologies of your #Products and #Services

Products and services associated with the IoT currently operate in closed ecosystems like Home Automation, in effect, they are simply networked products with linking software. Part machine to machine (M2M) and part human to machine or machine to human (H2M…

Open IoT with Blockchain AI and Big Data

Ubiquity (IoT) does not exist yet There will be many people who will say it does exist and has working technologies, hardware and software. The IoT is not a closed ecosystem related to one task or feature set like Home Management, but…

Dependant on dumb data and is making bad choices?

Data (dumb data), Big Data, Artificial Intelligence Businesses don’t understand their Customers, they just think they do! It’s not for the lack of trying or spending millions on developing and building huge data systems, the problems are many but can be…

Cognition Clash in the IoT SXSW16

Thank you to everyone who attended our (Karl Smith and Thom Heslop) talk at SXSW16, it’s the start of a long road into a really complex and contextual problem. But being silent in the crowd as the King walks by…

#Cognition #Clash in The #Internet of #Things

I’m speaking at SXSW Interactive 2016 on Cognition Clash in The Internet of Things, if your in Austin, TX let me know? The IoT is the next great opportunity for business enterprises to engage with customers. However there is no unified…

The #IoT an #interactive landscape without #visual #interfaces

I should say at the beginning this is one inception of the IoT, which may or may not be confirmed by products or more importantly by human adoption. The foundation for this thinking goes back to a notion of the…

#UX #cognitive #interactions patterns for #IoT by #Gestalt

The psychology of visual location, shape and colour are critical to enable user to understand and interpret their location and expectations of use in any given area. Karl Smith’s research from 2002 defined additional aspects as ‘biographical templates’ that establish key perceptions and personal drivers which are linked to persona’s.