What’s this?
Actually,
the Dash is a “smart” wireless ear headphone in the world and the aim is to
achieve a better understanding of your skills, abilities (performance tracking)
and health (body sensors) while doing the things you like. The Dash its
hardware is below:
What’s the
laundry list of features?
1.
Wireless (Bluetooth 4.0, with support for high quality Bluetooth aptX )
2.
Touch control (left ear for tracking, right for sound)
3.
4GB onboard storage for media playback (or use your phone)
4.
Audio training feedback
5.
An accelerometer
6.
Heart rate monitor
7.
Oxygen saturation sensor
8.
"Transparent" mode (so you can hear ambient sounds without removing)
9.
Waterproof to one meter
Let’s see the video.
What's interesting about the
news?
“All-in-One”
– a pair of these super-powered headphones
Music
plays an important role in our daily life and it can provide us motivation and
joy. However, to listen to music with headphones still has some drawbacks, such
as cables tangles and pull at the headphone. Also, if accessing online music
from a Smartphone, users still need to carry this device all the time. It’s
really painful. The Dash has wireless stereo earphones and will playback music
through a Bluetooth connection (Online) or use the built-in music player to
play the local stored music (offline). Users can enjoy a freedom and comfort of
movement. Also, the Dash can track your movements, such as pace, steps, cadence
and distance, but not just be limited to regular outdoor activities like golf,
jogging, tennis. If you love water sports, such as swimming, snorkeling, the
waterproof feature still can work fine. In addition, the Dash has sensors to
measure heart rate, oxygen saturation and energy spent and also offers the
function of real-time acoustic feedback and keeps users safe. It even works
without an attached Smartphone. Everything is controlled through gestures near
the ear buds or by tapping on them. This is awesome for those people love
working out. The Dash could become a truly remarkable addition to our lives and
also change many users’ behaviors.
What can you currently do with
the Dash?
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The
Dash can adapt to many needs.
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Why should we care about it from
the perspective of mobile interaction design?
Hardware
From the design principles:
1.
Consistency: for this part, users still need to spend some time to get used to these
gestures because left/right sides have different functions, and some gestures
are not consistent with user life knowledge and experience like Play/Pause/Take
a Call
2.
Shortcuts: the designers use a function “Select a Playlist”, so users can cut
down on songs selection.
3.
Feedback: I am not sure if the designers offer informative feedback. If not,
the designers should indicate error message when users’ wrong behaviors.
4.
Prevent Errors: I think that the designer may not provide recover mistaken
input.
5.
Increase short-term memory load: complicated gestures may increase the users’
burden.
Software
The
Dash also provides an App on Android phone and iPhone. However, I still cannot
find this app from the Google play store and app store.
Based
on the pictures, we still can judge from the design principles:
1. High Visibility: In the main menu on the top
of interface, each concise icon has “blue color” to inform a user about the
current status.
2. Good Consistency: the interface design is
internally consistent. All items are the same so that users can get the hang of
it very soon.
3. Bad Mapping: Some icons are difficult for
users to know their function. Ex: Music playback from phone, track your
performance, Measure your body vitals.
4. No shortcuts: It seems the Dash has no shortcut to enable
users to set ‘favorites’ function.
5. Expect concise and graphical interfaces instead of many texts.
This
project will be funded on Mon, Mar 31 2014 8:59 AM CST.
It’s ready to
launch!
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