She sees more user friendliness in those interactions that disappear (similar to Weiser's vision). And there is some potential in it, despite the fact that users become addicted to their smartphones. Jennifer Winter mentions a statement from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in March 2015, that 79 percent of smartphone users have their phones within arm's reach for all but three hours of the day.
However, users see alternatives to that as a study by the Ericsson's Consumer Lab revealed.The study states: "1 in 2 smartphones users now thinks that smartphones will be a thing of the past, and that this will happen in just 5 years." Users want smart interaction with objects, but it does not need to be mediated by the smartphone. The study reveals even more potential about the use of artificial intelligence in our lives:
- 85 % think wearable electronic assistants will be common within 5 years
- 50 % believe they will be able to talk to household appliances, as they do to people
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More statements are in the following figure of that study.
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