The Design of Future Things (29 page)

Refrigerator magnets,
125–127

Responsive automation,
86–90

Risk

a machine's perspective on reverse compensation,
186

perception of and reverse compensation,
78–85

Risk homeostasis,
79

Robots,
160–165

Rosetta,
145

Royal Majesty,
115

Rrrun
(Thoma),
42

Rumble strips,
150–151

Safety, perceived
vs.
real and reverse risk compensation,
77–85

Sapper, Richard,
65

Science of design,
171–175

Segway Personal Transporter,
89–90

Semiotic Engineering
(de Souza),
67

Shared Space,
79–80

Signaling

annoyance/confusion/danger of multiple devices,
57–58

communication distinguished from,
57

implicit,
61–66

natural.
See
Natural interaction

in reverse risk compensation,
83

See also
Communication
;
Sounds

Situation awareness,
114

“Smart” environments,
28

“Smart” homes.
See
Homes

“Smart” machines.
See
Intelligent machines

Snow White,
155–156

Socrates,
5–6

Sounds

alarms,
141

of appliances in the home,
139–140

comfort noise,
63

design problem regarding,
63–65

missing elevators without,
138

natural,
59–60

of water boiling in a kettle,
60

See also
Communication
;
Natural interaction
;
Signaling

de Souza, Clarisse,
66–69

Speciner, M.,
184

Spielberg, Steven,
31

Stanton, Neville,
114

Star Wars
,
25

Stephenson, Neil,
163

Stick Shaker,
150

Stross, Charles,
25–26

Swarming,
108–113

Symbiotic relationships

Cobots as an example of,
86–88

examples of,
17–21

natural signals in,
23–25

Segway Personal Transporters as an example of,
89–90

social interaction required by,
21–22

“symbiosis,” definition of,
22

See also
Machine+person entities
;
Natural interaction

Teakettles.
See
Kettles

Technology

calm,
148–149

changes in people resulting from changes in,
165–167

collaboration and communication as critical for,
4–5

conferences and,
99–104

conforming to our,
168–171

control, shift from people to machines in,
10–17

definitions of,
95

feedback, need for design to include.
See
Feedback

future, products of the,
155–160

the machine's point of view.
See
Machine's point of view, the

materials, revolution in,
158–159

people as tools of,
94–99

trapped by advanced,
91–94

See also
Automation
;
Intelligent machines

Things That Make Us Smart
(Norman),
168

Thoma, Marta,
42

Thoreau, Henry,
94–95

3-D fax and printing technology,
159–160

Trudeau, Garry,
144

Turkle, Sherry,
2

2001
,
25

Vigilance,
114

Walden
(Thoreau),
94

Weiser, Mark,
148–149

Wilde, Gerald,
79

Wiltshire, England,
115

Wroblewski, Dave,
66

Yeager, Larry,
145

Young, Mark,
114

Zuboff, Shoshana,
132–133