A Design Science Approach to Interactive Greenhouse Climate Control Using Lego Mindstorms for Sensor-Intensive Prototyping

Pedersen, Rasmus Ulslev; Clemmensen, Torkil

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-41145-8_7

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“…The purpose is to reproduce prototypes and user-oriented evaluations [41], taking as a reference the guidelines of DSR for the recent work [42]. The DSR [43] process includes six steps:…”

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Moving beyond Limitations: Designing the Helpdys App for Children with Dyslexia in Rural Areas

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Dyslexia is a relatively common language disorder which is generally ignored in rural communities. It hinders children’s learning processes and, in some cases, is the cause of dropouts or violence in schools. The present work strives to create a web and mobile app as a preliminary step towards the diagnosis and treatment of dyslexic children. Apps providing didactic educational games and activities improve literacy skills for students with reading disabilities. The current work incorporates user experience and prototyping to fulfill app requirements. The authors evaluated the apps with the Mobile App Rating Scale (MARS) tool to assess engagement, functionality, aesthetics, and information. The app’s improvements were immediately implemented and tested in the “Escuela Linea Equinoccial” (Ecuador) school, proving its utility for future use in the education system. The app can be a valuable tool for children with dyslexia to progress successfully through school, raising their self-confidence and, thereby, helping them reach their full potential as adults able to make a positive contribution to society.

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“…The purpose is to reproduce prototypes and user-oriented evaluations [41], taking as a reference the guidelines of DSR for the recent work [42]. The DSR [43] process includes six steps:…”

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confidence: 99%

Moving beyond Limitations: Designing the Helpdys App for Children with Dyslexia in Rural Areas

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“…The purpose is to reproduce prototypes and user-oriented evaluations [28], taking as reference the guidelines of DSR for the current work [29]. The DSR [30] process includes six steps:…”

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Thinking about Inclusion: Designing a Digital App Catalog for People with Motor Disability

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Some apps serve as assistive technologies or digital therapeutic tools that can be used by rehabilitation professionals in the motor disability context, bringing benefits to therapists and people with disabilities. However, websites or catalogs do not provide reliable information, easy search, and intuitive access to these apps, causing access information difficulties. Therefore, this work proposes to develop a digital catalog of software focused on motor disability. This work performed a systematic search of websites and catalogs related to motor disability, a systematic search of the apps that the digital catalog would show, and a quality evaluation of selected apps using the Mobile Application Rating Scale tool. The digital catalog was developed with the information obtained in the previous phases combining the Prototyping and User Experience criteria, then assessed by final users, software testers, and a web accessibility evaluation tool. The catalog obtained a satisfactory quality score based on the end-users’ and therapists’ satisfaction when finding technological resources to use in their professional and health-care activities. This research aims to contribute to those interested in developing software for people with disabilities and encouraging them to create and design their implementations based on this study.

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“…However, some research addresses usability and UX in specific work domains, such as administration [9], health [53], manufacturing [45], and maritime work [27]. The work domain that we study in this paper is horticulture, or more broadly agriculture, which is an emerging area in HCI research (e.g., [25,64,85,88]). In the following, we structure the presentation of related work around the four elements of Figure 1 and, wherever possible, limit our examples to the studies most relevant to the horticultural domain.…”

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“…The horticultural workplace is rapidly becoming a digital workplace where the employees do their work away from the greenhouse (e.g., [12,55,68]). Understanding horticultural work requires multidisciplinary research (in, e.g., horticultural plant models for decision making systems [46], horticultural UX design [85], horticultural workplace design [4], design of horticultural IT technologies [55] and horticultural mobile devices [61]). There is a great need for understanding the psychological phenomena, including UX, that mediate between the digital workplace and the employees' wellbeing and productivity [7].…”

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Ordinary User Experiences at Work

Clemmensen

Hertzum

Abdelnour-Nocera

2020

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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We investigate professional greenhouse growers' user experience (UX) when using climatemanagement systems in their daily work. We build on the literature on UX, in particular UX at work, and extend it to ordinary UX at work. In a ten-day diary study, we collected data with a general UX instrument (AttrakDiff), a domain-specific instrument, and interviews. We find that AttrakDiff is valid at work; its threefactor structure of pragmatic quality, hedonic identification quality, and hedonic stimulation quality is recognizable in the growers' responses. In this paper, UX at work is understood as interactions among technology, tasks, structure, and actors. Our data support the recent proposal for the ordinariness of UX at work. We find that during continued use UX at work is middle-of-the-scale, remains largely constant over time, and varies little across use situations. For example, the largest slope of the four AttrakDiff constructs when regressed over the ten days was as small as 0.04. The findings contrast existing assumptions and findings in UX research, which is mainly about extraordinary and positive experiences. In this way, the present study contributes to UX research by calling attention to the mundane, unremarkable, and ordinary user experiences at work.

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A Design Science Approach to Interactive Greenhouse Climate Control Using Lego Mindstorms for Sensor-Intensive Prototyping

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

Moving beyond Limitations: Designing the Helpdys App for Children with Dyslexia in Rural Areas

Moving beyond Limitations: Designing the Helpdys App for Children with Dyslexia in Rural Areas

Thinking about Inclusion: Designing a Digital App Catalog for People with Motor Disability

Ordinary User Experiences at Work

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