The Body Never Lies - Why the Next UX Frontier Isn't the Screen

Description

Every conversation about AI and UX still assumes the same interface, that is, a screen, a prompt, a response. But the most consequential AI decisions being made about a human body right now, whether someone is about to fall, whether a fraud pattern matches their real behavior, whether a heart rhythm has quietly changed, are not happening on a screen at all. They are happening on wearables across a network of sensors that most UX teams have never designed for and most trust frameworks were never built to cover. Vivian Gomes has spent the last several years designing various experiences including preventive-health wearables and medical systems where the user cannot click away, cannot re-read a confusing message, and often cannot self-report what is wrong. When the interface disappears, and the AI is reading the body instead of the screen, the entire discipline of human-centered design has to be rebuilt from different first principles such as continuous consent instead of one-time agreement, ambient trust instead of visible feedback, and a fall-risk score that has to be right the first time because there may not be a second chance to earn back confidence. This talk is a field report from that frontier. The audience will see what breaks when you remove the screen, what a genuinely embodied trust model looks like, and why the next decade of UX belongs to designers willing to leave the interface behind entirely.