Part of my Calm Technology Book Tour this year will take me to the IoT Fuse Conference in Minneapolis, MN!

Now in its second year, IOT Fuse, a Minnesota-based conference to spark the Internet of Things, is an event focused on uniting doers, makers and hackers with executives, entrepreneurs and innovators.

I’ll be presenting the opening keynote speech on Friday, April 22 from 8:15am – 9:30am. The World Is Not a Desktop.

Speech Description
How can you design technology that becomes a part of a user’s life and not a distraction from it? Amber Case explores the concept of calm technology, a method for smoothly capturing a user’s attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining in the background most of the time. Author Amber Case presents ideas first introduced by researchers at Xerox PARC in 1995, and explains how they apply to our current technology landscape, especially the Internet of Things. We’ll discuss the importance and challenge of designing technology that respects our attention, principles of calm design—peripheral attention, context, and ambient awareness and calm communication patterns—improving attention through a variety of senses.

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