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9:30 AM JW Marriott: Salon E Reality is an Illusion We push buttons to control music like a cassette player. We browse shopping sites page by page in a grid view like a printed catalog. Our digital experiences are full of realistic contexts, bound by the same set of rules and restrictions we are bound by in our real world. But why? Does it truly offer us the best user experience possible, or are we doing it just because that's all we know? Sung Kim Solo • Intermediate 9:30 AM JW Marriott: Salon FGH Empowerment Theory: Defining the Future of Digital Empowerment theory is a theoretical framework used by community psychologists that examines power and powerlessness. It can completely change the way digital experiences are designed and evaluated. Researcher Rebecca Gordon will explain how applying empowerment theory to our work can contribute new levels of substance and nuance to experiences. Rebecca Gordon Solo • Intermediate 11:00 AM JW Marriott: Salon D From Cartoons to Apps: UI Animation in 2450! How can the designers of tomorrow create the next generation of interfaces while drawing inspiration from animators of the past? What does Bugs Bunny know about making apps anyhow? Miguel Montanez, PBS KIDS, and Dave Schlafman, CloudKid, will take a deep dive into how UI animation and audio have shifted from ornamental to a key part of the UX design process. Dave Schlafman, Miguel Montanez Dual • Advanced 11:00 AM JW Marriott: Salon E Iron Man Interfaces: Next Generation UI (Or UX) Developing the 3D, holographic interfaces and displays that will revolutionize UX and deliver a hands-free future is a maturing science. Join pioneers Meron Gribetz, CEO/ inventor of META glasses, and Jayse Hansen, the designer responsible for creating the Iron Man interface, in a discussion about designing next-generation, holographic interfaces. Part of the IEEE Tech for Humanity Series. Meron Gribetz, Jayse Hansen Dual • Beginner 11:00 AM JW Marriott: Salon FGH Aging Population and the Internet of Caring Things People are living longer. Globally, the aging population is predicted to surpass a billion people by 2030. This is creating a societal crisis as many countries face the challenge of supporting an aging population. Future accessible technology and the Internet of Caring Things will become more pervasive and more crucial for supporting the aging population's quality of life and survival. Nicola Palmarini, Susann Keohane Dual • Beginner 12:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon D Zen and the Art of Motion in User Interfaces Interface animation is misunderstood as adding delight to interfaces. With the promi- nence of animation in iOS 8 and Google Material Design, animation is becoming recog- nized as a part of interface design. Designers communicate the interaction and sell the value of it, exploring benefits of motion in UI to elevate experience. Speakers will show methods of creating and sharing UI motion in an understandable way. Mike Gadow, Russell Wilkins Dual • Advanced 12:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon E Augmented Reality Without the Rose-Colored Glasses Augmented reality devices will soon be capable of erasing the line between human perception and digital presentation – borderless, pervasive, ubiquitous interfaces that could alter our view of the world. AR presents a profound human-centered design challenge with far-reaching implications. As the line between interface and cognition blurs, how should we design the future we want? John Rousseau Solo • Advanced 12:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon FGH Fresh Thinking on Old Age: Design for Fulfillment For this session, José Colucci – an IDEO designer and aging specialist – partners with Emi Kiyota – an environmental gerontologist, cultural change expert and Founder of Ibasho – to bring fresh thinking on old age, focusing on inspiring solutions, insights and tools. This is an interactive session, with members of the audience as active par- ticipants. Emi Kiyota, Jose Colucci Dual • Advanced 3:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon D Subtle Interfaces: Designing for Calm Tech Some of the world's best technologies do one thing brilliantly. This panel brings togeth- er leading UK creatives and researchers who are developing products and experiences that are calm, slow and often magical. When we let go of trying to be all things to all people, we make space for imaginative interfaces and disruptive ideas. Chloe Meineck, Peter Bennett, Tom Metcalfe, Verity McIntosh Panel • Advanced 3:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon E The Secrets of Machine Learning Revealed Machine learning is not black magic – it's the automation of discovery, the scientific method on steroids. And the key ideas are remarkably intuitive. Discover how we teach machines to learn and what they teach us in return from Pedro Domingos, a world leader in the field, winner of the SIGKDD Innovation Award (AKA the Nobel prize of data science) and author of The Master Algorithm. Pedro Domingos Solo • Advanced 3:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon FGH Closing the Knowledge Gap with Cognitive Design Cognitive Design extends web accessibility to incorporate the needs of diverse learn- ing, processing and thinking styles. The result is more effective messaging to broad and neuro-diverse audiences, including distracted users, those with cognitive disabili- ties and the aging population. Speakers share experiences and discuss evolving Cogni- tive Design principles, practices and implementation. John Kirkwood, Lisa Seeman Dual • Intermediate 5:00 PM JW Marriott: Salon D Behavioral Design: Hacking Human Behavior for Good Behavioral design aims to help close the gap on big world issues that have yet to be cracked by policy, products or technology. This session will take behavioral minds be- hind Opower, Jawbone, Udacity and Irrational Labs to discuss their current user behav- ior problems and reveal what has worked and confess what has failed to solve some of our biggest societal problems. Deena Rosen, Kelvin Kwong, Kristen Berman, Zhalisa Clarke Panel • Advanced 5:00 PM JW Marriott: Salon E Think Outside the Screen: UX with No UI How do you design a user-centered experience for something no one's ever actual- ly used? Join us to ponder the possibilities for the future of user experience design. Carley will discuss design pioneers from the past and present, evaluate the tools and methods we rely on now and offer ideas for moving forward into the nebulous world of future tech. Greg Carley Solo • Intermediate 5:00 PM JW Marriott: Salon FGH Bitcoin and Blockchains: The Next App Platform? Bitcoin and its blockchain are more than a payment network. Bundled with peer-to-peer crypto toolchains and secure execution engines, blockchains enable novel distributed apps. Replacing trust with proof, our apps are more independent of mega-platform pro- viders. Crypto-era stacks monetize natively, scale without provisioning, uphold privacy, stop data corruption, secure execution and resist tampering. Chris Mountford Solo • Advanced DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT JW MARRIOTT: 110 EAST 2ND STREET FESTIVAL SESSIONS 1 1 1 2 0 1 6 S X S W I N T E R A C T I V E P R O G R A M G U I D E D E S I G N & D E V E L O P M E N T