Social Trends and Product Opportunities: Philips' Vision of the Future Project

This paper describes a project that was carried out by Philips Corporate Design (PCD) to explore ideas for products and services, which could be part of our future in the year 2005. It discusses how a socio-cultural tool was used together with technology forecasts to arrive at the creation of scenarios that describe future products and their contexts. The concepts were then communicated to a wide audience in the form of short film clips. The project involved many people from a wide range of disciplines. Keywords Future, design process, socio-cultural forecasts, interaction design, industrial design, film making, scenario.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Robert Lambourne, Khodi Feiz, Bertrand Rigot
• Keywords: CHI 1997, Human Computer Interaction, Philips Corporate Design, Short Film Clips, Socio-cultural Tool