Die Studierenden haben anhand eines frei wählbaren Themas neue Konzepte für Produkt-Service-Systeme entwickelt, die unter anderem neben Formen der haptischen Interaktion auch digitale Komponenten und Prozesse berücksichtigen.
Zum Vorgehen
Dazu wurden entsprechende Arbeits- und Tätigkeitsabläufe recherchiert und analysiert, Zusammenhänge und Wechselwirkungen zwischen verschiedenen Nutzer*innengruppen und analogen wie digitalen Produkten aufgezeigt, um entsprechende Entwicklungspotenziale zu identifizieren.
Wir haben uns dabei mit unterschiedlichen Modalitäten von Interaktion auseinandergesetzt und anhand der jeweiligen Projektthemen neue Lösungsoptionen erarbeitet. Der Arbeitsprozess umfasste User Research, Anforderungsdefinition, Lösungsentwicklung / Prototyping sowie die Evaluation und Präsentation interaktiver Systeme.
Our personal data is valuable, but it often doesn’t belong to us.
Today, it’s mostly controlled by big tech companies: Our behaviors, preferences, and daily decisions are systematically collected, analyzed, and sold – rarely for our own benefit.
Instead of receiving clear guidance, we are flooded with endless options, distractions, and advertising, while meaningful decisions are left up to chance.
What we need is a technology that makes choices based on personal values, not on algorithms built to maximize attention and profit.
Solution: Meet kai.
KAI is a novel, contextually aware, and unobtrusive wearable companion that seamlessly integrates agentic AI into everyday life, providing perfect, hyper-personalized recommendations based on your individual preferences, habits, and values.
As part of a connected network of personal AIs, KAI continuously exchanges contextual information to make decisions informed not only by your own data, but by a dynamic understanding of the world around you.
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How does kai work?
Interaction with KAI is intentionally minimal and user-controlled. KAI never speaks unprompted, the initiative always lies with the user. You decide when and whether you want a recommendation.
When a recommendation is desired, a simple tap on the device is enough.
KAI analyzes your current context and provides a personalized, situationally appropriate suggestion for the next meaningful step, whether cognitive, physical, or social.
This could be a place to go, an action to take, something to do, try, say, or even avoid.
The device itself is worn discreetly, placed gently around your ear.
Using bone conduction, KAI communicates directly with you, silently, clearly, and only for you to hear. No one else notices, no screen, no noise, just clarity, exactly when you ask for it.
A Networked Intelligence
KAI’s recommendations aren’t based on your personal data alone, that wouldn’t be enough to truly understand your situation. To provide meaningful, context-aware suggestions, KAI is connected to a vast, constantly evolving network of countless other personal AIs. These AIs continuously exchange anonymized information about places, patterns, moods, and real-life experiences, what people are seeing, hearing, doing, and perceiving.
Each personal AI is part of a constantly updating system, exchanging real-time context and environmental data. This allows KAI to understand what’s happening around you, even if you’re not there yet. It’s like a sensory extension: a way of seeing more than you alone can perceive. Because the world is always changing, and no single perspective is enough to grasp the full picture.
The result is a layer of shared intelligence, a silent second society of AIs that learn from one another in real time. A dynamic, living system that ensures KAI doesn’t just give you any recommendation – but the right one.