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PERSONAL DIGITAL NETWORK
Revolutionary location-aware personalized mobile handheld device and content network
My Role:
Human Factors Director
1999 - 2001
All work done in collaboration with various stakeholders
INITIAL CONCEPT
A handheld, location-aware device with a private and secure text-messaging capability.
An associated network to manage quality, privacy and security.
Focused toward young teens as primary users.
ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH
USER SEGMENT ANALYSIS
TEEN-PANEL RESEARCH
EVOLVED CONCEPT
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Location-awareness
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Phone plus text-messaging
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Expansive view of content categories and items (content includes any informational or relational items that users create or experience)
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Device platform includes "players" for presenting various types of media content (video, music, photos, voice mail, text, etc.)
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Useful content is made available to users through a complex and adaptive system that uses context, user-preferences and other habit and behavioral user models (all within users' control)
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Empathic and conversational interaction style
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User Interface incorporating a new medium for content delivery -- a dynamic presentation stream of content items based on context, user preferences and habits.
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Named places and activities to provide personal context references
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User visibility to network and relationships under user control (including parental controls)
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User designed assemblies of content for named contexts
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Graphic, animated user interface implemented in Flash
DESIGNS / PROTOTYPES
Performed in conjunction with Third-Party Firms
FURTHER CONCEPTS
WORKING PROTOTYPES
Performed in conjunction with Third-Party Firms
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