Your production quality was very good. The audio was clear, and the visuals were great supplements. You also paced your presentation well and had smooth transitions from slide to slide.
My favorite part of your presentation was your analysis. In particular, I really liked your remarks about how the synchronization era influenced wearable technologies. I find it interesting how smartphones caused wearable tech usage to decline because they offered better synchronization.
I am honestly having a hard time finding something to criticise because the presentation was that good. However, I think you exaggerated the comeback of wearables a bit. I haven’t done much research on this, but just from personal experience, it seems that smart watches aren’t gaining much traction after some initial excitement.
Great job with this video. I really liked that you took the idea of wearable technology and traced it back to the creation of glasses. This coincides with ideas discussed in class and was a perfect innovation to represent the initial necessity behind these creations. Your three key words of necessity, convenience, and synchronization helped me understand the underlying reasons behind advancements in this field and why it progressed the way it did. This video properly puts wearable technology into its historical context which is often difficult to do.
One suggestion would be to look more towards the future to figure out where wearable technology is headed. You touched on it a little, but I would have liked to know a little more about its impact on society in the next few decades. Your video did well at tracing wearable technology through history and allowed me to gain a much better understanding of the underlying reasons behind its development. Good job.
Aaron, really interesting and detailed video. I love how you incorporated your opinions, backed up by fact in order to talk about the history of wearable of technology. I thought you spoke at a great pace and I also liked how at the very end, you talked about the current “future” of wearable technology with the incorporation of virtual reality.
You made very interesting points such as the fact that glasses are considered the first wearable technology. I didn’t even realize this until you said it but it completely makes sense and ties back into our class discussions of how we take such important, mainstream and established technologies for granted. I also thought the abacus ring from China is amazing! You once again hit on a class subject, speaking to the advanced nature of the Chinese culture we touched upon throughout the course. Fast forward to the modern day, I thought it was a crucial point you mentioned that the invention of the microchip allowed everything to be scaled down. I thought this served as a great segway into wearable technology in the modern day as everything is so “scaled down”.
There are very little critiques I have for your slidecast but something I noticed was sometimes the audio quality was patchy. I also think having the images move in some way, such as slowly zooming in or out helps keep the audience even more engaged. Overall, fantastic job!
To start, I just want to say this is such a large, all-encompassing topic, and there are so many different things you could focus on under this title. I feel like your presentation provides a nice balance between wide spread coverage of a variety of topics mixed with a more in-depth analysis of smart phones and watches. Since they are such popular items today, I agree with your choice to highlight those two devices. My favorite part of the presentation was the summary of the key values that explain the development of wearable technology: necessity, convenience, and synchronization. After watching your slidecast, I could easily trace the central points in your presentation using those three values.
I felt like your presentation was done very well and there is not too much to improve. However, you could have made your discussion a little less linear and more about the social context surrounding a single wearable technology. That’s really just up to personal preference though and this format works as well so great job!
P.S. – I’m not sure if it was intentional or not but I really enjoyed your pun about watches having “good timing!” 4:36
I thought the introduction discussing early forms of wearable technology was really cool. I never thought of glasses as a type of wearable tech, although they are invaluable for so many people’s everyday lives. The abacus ring is also something really interesting I have never heard of, and I also would not think it was a necessity for everyday life in its cultural context.
The argument that over time, and especially for electronic wearable tech, that there was a shift from necessity to convenience was really well supported. However, with the strong element of synchronization that you discussed, I bet many people would label their wearable tech as a necessity since they are used to the convenience it provides in everyday life. Overall, the presentation was very thorough and you provided strong historical context.
This was an extremely interesting project for a few reasons. I really enjoyed your format of the project because it truly seemed like a discussion we would have had in class. For example, how you discussed the reasoning for this technology through both the private sector and the public sector. You covered the patrons extremely well and you also answered Professor Cohen’s probably most favorite question: “What is the technology for?”
My favorite part was probably how you started with the glasses and left it up to the audience if we wanted to count that as technology or not because I am not sure about everyone else but it forced me to think about certain things in my life that I constantly overlook as being “technology.” I think this slide cast, overall, really made the audience think and before I watched I thought it could’ve gone in either one or two ways and this was definitely the way I was hoping it would go.
Overall, really good project on an interesting topic that is so prevalent in our lives now. It’s funny because so many people I know either have a fitbit or an apple watch.
Your production quality was very good. The audio was clear, and the visuals were great supplements. You also paced your presentation well and had smooth transitions from slide to slide.
My favorite part of your presentation was your analysis. In particular, I really liked your remarks about how the synchronization era influenced wearable technologies. I find it interesting how smartphones caused wearable tech usage to decline because they offered better synchronization.
I am honestly having a hard time finding something to criticise because the presentation was that good. However, I think you exaggerated the comeback of wearables a bit. I haven’t done much research on this, but just from personal experience, it seems that smart watches aren’t gaining much traction after some initial excitement.
Great job with this video. I really liked that you took the idea of wearable technology and traced it back to the creation of glasses. This coincides with ideas discussed in class and was a perfect innovation to represent the initial necessity behind these creations. Your three key words of necessity, convenience, and synchronization helped me understand the underlying reasons behind advancements in this field and why it progressed the way it did. This video properly puts wearable technology into its historical context which is often difficult to do.
One suggestion would be to look more towards the future to figure out where wearable technology is headed. You touched on it a little, but I would have liked to know a little more about its impact on society in the next few decades. Your video did well at tracing wearable technology through history and allowed me to gain a much better understanding of the underlying reasons behind its development. Good job.
Aaron, really interesting and detailed video. I love how you incorporated your opinions, backed up by fact in order to talk about the history of wearable of technology. I thought you spoke at a great pace and I also liked how at the very end, you talked about the current “future” of wearable technology with the incorporation of virtual reality.
You made very interesting points such as the fact that glasses are considered the first wearable technology. I didn’t even realize this until you said it but it completely makes sense and ties back into our class discussions of how we take such important, mainstream and established technologies for granted. I also thought the abacus ring from China is amazing! You once again hit on a class subject, speaking to the advanced nature of the Chinese culture we touched upon throughout the course. Fast forward to the modern day, I thought it was a crucial point you mentioned that the invention of the microchip allowed everything to be scaled down. I thought this served as a great segway into wearable technology in the modern day as everything is so “scaled down”.
There are very little critiques I have for your slidecast but something I noticed was sometimes the audio quality was patchy. I also think having the images move in some way, such as slowly zooming in or out helps keep the audience even more engaged. Overall, fantastic job!
To start, I just want to say this is such a large, all-encompassing topic, and there are so many different things you could focus on under this title. I feel like your presentation provides a nice balance between wide spread coverage of a variety of topics mixed with a more in-depth analysis of smart phones and watches. Since they are such popular items today, I agree with your choice to highlight those two devices. My favorite part of the presentation was the summary of the key values that explain the development of wearable technology: necessity, convenience, and synchronization. After watching your slidecast, I could easily trace the central points in your presentation using those three values.
I felt like your presentation was done very well and there is not too much to improve. However, you could have made your discussion a little less linear and more about the social context surrounding a single wearable technology. That’s really just up to personal preference though and this format works as well so great job!
P.S. – I’m not sure if it was intentional or not but I really enjoyed your pun about watches having “good timing!” 4:36
Hey Aaron,
I thought the introduction discussing early forms of wearable technology was really cool. I never thought of glasses as a type of wearable tech, although they are invaluable for so many people’s everyday lives. The abacus ring is also something really interesting I have never heard of, and I also would not think it was a necessity for everyday life in its cultural context.
The argument that over time, and especially for electronic wearable tech, that there was a shift from necessity to convenience was really well supported. However, with the strong element of synchronization that you discussed, I bet many people would label their wearable tech as a necessity since they are used to the convenience it provides in everyday life. Overall, the presentation was very thorough and you provided strong historical context.
This was an extremely interesting project for a few reasons. I really enjoyed your format of the project because it truly seemed like a discussion we would have had in class. For example, how you discussed the reasoning for this technology through both the private sector and the public sector. You covered the patrons extremely well and you also answered Professor Cohen’s probably most favorite question: “What is the technology for?”
My favorite part was probably how you started with the glasses and left it up to the audience if we wanted to count that as technology or not because I am not sure about everyone else but it forced me to think about certain things in my life that I constantly overlook as being “technology.” I think this slide cast, overall, really made the audience think and before I watched I thought it could’ve gone in either one or two ways and this was definitely the way I was hoping it would go.
Overall, really good project on an interesting topic that is so prevalent in our lives now. It’s funny because so many people I know either have a fitbit or an apple watch.