Episode 012: Voice as UI, with Scott Ryan-Hart

We explore how our vocal chords control our electronic devices, and why the current implementations are leaving a bad taste in our mouth. Scott Ryan-Hart joins us as he is currently finishing up his Master's at Kent State University for User Experience Design. His thesis is about the mismatch between the user's mental model of Siri, and the conceptual model of Siri — and marketing's role in that.

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• Kent State: Masters in User Experience Design
• Wikipedia: Siri
• Cult of Mac: Apple’s 1987 Vision of the Knowledge Navigator
• The Wall Street Journal (2012): Siri’s fast adoption for certain things
• The Wall Street Journal (2011): How Siri got it’s ‘tude
• Daring Fireball: Siri Improvements
• Journal of Network and Computer Applications (2008): Hands-free & Accessibility
• TechBlog (2015): Full list of Siri commands
• UXmas (2012): The 4 H’s of Writing Error Messages
• The New York Times (2014): How One Boy With Autism Became BFF With Apple’s Siri

Bryan Brush with a Blue Power Ring by Scott Ryan-Hart

• Powerful Learning Network (2012): Teaching in the Age of Siri
• Concordia Online Education (2013): Does Apple’s Siri Belong in the Classroom?
• Amazon: A lovely TI–84 Graphing Calculator
• The New Yorker (2005): The Old Man Effect — Records
• Techdirt (2011): The Old Man Effect — Printing Press
• Skwirk: Home appliances give us more time, but possibly more to do
• Isaac Asimov: The Feeling of Power
• Minecraft’s Official Site
• Lego: Digital Designer
• Photo: The Humans of Wall-E

Sam Bantner with an Orange Power Ring by Scott Ryan-Hart

• Microsoft Research — Matthew Turk: Perceptual User Interfaces
• Perceptual User Interfaces Group
• Cooper (2012): The best interface is no interface
• Definition: User Interface (UI)
• Hongkiat (2013): 8 “Next-Gen” User Interfaces
• Amazon: Mindflex — A brain controlled toy
• UX Magazine (2012): Cognitive Load
• Harvard: SUPPLE — Automatically generating personalized user interfaces
• Wikipedia: Power Ring

Sean Doran with a Green Power Ring by Scott Ryan-Hart

• TechBlog (2015): Full list of Siri commands
• Medium (2014): Towards a New Information Architecture
• UX Matters (2012): The Importance of Knowing User Intent
• UX Magazine (2011): Learning Interfaces
• Amazon Echo
• Wikipedia: Natural Language Processing
• Quora: Her & Siri
• iMore (2014): How to make Siri not use the default Maps app for directions
• Slack API
• Facebook Developers
• Quora: Does Siri have an API?
• Gigaom (2012): Live by the API, Die by the API
• Nuance: Dragon NaturallySpeaking
• Lifehacker (2015): A week of voice
• Apple: Voice Control
• Android Origin (2015)Siri v. Cortana v. Google Now Different Languages
• Gizmodo (2014): Siri v. Cortana v. Google Now Comparison (2014)
• Wikipedia: Guardians of the Galaxy
• Wikipedia: Guardians of the Universe
• Wikipedia: Power Ring

• Twitter: Scott Ryan-Hart is @mmmmmpig
• 20 Questions Tuesday

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