“Living Services”; they are systems that organically adapt and expand around users. These services are constantly learning more about our needs, goals and preferences, and they flex themselves to become more relevant, engaging and useful over time.
This will require designers to imagine a whole new set of interaction systems for smarter products and services. This means engaging more with human senses such as voice, gestures and body sensors, as well as taking into account the context and circumstances. With these ever-extending interaction channels we will have completely new ways to reach, aid, empower, educate and delight the user.
At the IxDA Helsinki meetup, to be held at Fjord Helsinki on March 19th we will discuss what Living Services are, how they will evolve in cities and how we can use rapid protyping to express and communicate the experience.
About the presenters:
Introduction to Living Services by Yonatan Kelib
Yonatan Kelib is a senior service designer at Fjord and an IxDA Helsinki board member. Throughout his eight years of professional experience he has helped conceptualize, design and delivered meaningful and intuitive services onto the global marketplace with the underlying belief that good design empower and enriches people's lives. He will give an overview of the Living Services concept.
Topic: What are Living Services and how will they affect how we design for the world around us?
Living Services in Future Cities by Angelica Nieto
Angelica Nieto is a researcher and PhD student at Tampere University of Technology. During the last four years she has been involved in a European projects focused on the development of adaptive interfaces for data intensive domains and mobility services for smart cities.
Topic: Mobility services for the inhabitants of Smart Cities, their integration into the manufacturing domain and their use in assisted living centres for the elderly and people with disabilities.
Living Services Hands On by Michihito Mizutani
Michihito Mizutani is a user experience designer and design technologist working at Microsoft. He has been creating concepts and designs for mobile phones and accessories. He also runs hands-on prototyping workshops at Aalto university.
Topic: Rapid prototyping as a tool to illustrate the user experience of Living Services
