At Home with Ubiquitous Computing: Seven Challenges

Edwards, W. Keith; Grinter, Rebecca E.

doi:10.1007/3-540-45427-6_22

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“…Wensveen [27] proposes the Frogger framework in which he aims to bridge possible gaps between user input and system output using six characteristics of the coupling between input and output. Edwards et al [28] pose seven challenges for designers of ubiquitous computing environments which provide useful guidelines that can very well be applied to lighting systems.…”

Section: Relation User and System Control Of Lightingmentioning

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User interaction with everyday lighting systems

Offermans

Essen

Eggen

2014

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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New lighting technologies create new opportunities that may contribute to people's experience of light. These opportunities are a result of the increased variety and freedom in terms of colour, form factor and connectivity of the lights. To allow people to fully benefit from the potential of such novel lighting systems, there is a need for a new user interaction paradigm. To develop this paradigm, we have to better understand the aspects that play a part in the interaction with lighting, paying special attention to people's motivation for interaction. This paper reports on a context-mapping study that was performed to gain insight in these aspects. As result, we present a set of seven themes that regard the interaction with lighting in the current situation and in the future. These themes provide an overview of the relevant aspects in this domain and contain considerations and opportunities for the design of new interfaces for novel lighting systems. We conclude that people have different levels of lighting needs that are highly dependent on context and that also require control at different levels. The context and lighting needs have a large influence on the extent to which people are motivated to adjust their lighting. Moreover, the lighting interface itself has a large effect on this motivation, mainly influenced by the degrees of freedom, the control location and availability, the degree of automation and general interaction qualities.

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Section: Relation User and System Control Of Lightingmentioning

confidence: 99%

User interaction with everyday lighting systems

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Essen

Eggen

2014

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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“…As computing devices become smaller, inexpensive and wirelessly interconnected, they will be embedded within our everyday environments [4,5]. In this new genre of ubiquitous computing, researchers suggest that the home can be augmented by making it more connected to other places, and more aware of its inhabitants [5,9,11].…”

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“…In this new genre of ubiquitous computing, researchers suggest that the home can be augmented by making it more connected to other places, and more aware of its inhabitants [5,9,11]. The home can somehow display information so that people can access it anytime and anywhere.…”

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Time, Ownership and Awareness: The Value of Contextual Locations in the Home

Elliot

Neustaedter

Greenberg

2005

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Our goal in this paper is to clearly delineate how households currently manage communication and coordination information; this will provide practitioners and designers with a more complete view of information in the home, and how technology embedded within the home can augment communication and coordination of home inhabitants. Through contextual interviews, we identify five types of communicative information: reminders and alerts, awareness and scheduling, notices, visual displays, and resource coordination. These information types are created and understood by home inhabitants as a function of contextual locations within the home.

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“…moving bundles or agents between platforms). This significantly lifts the pressure on the development teams that have to define the architecture of the system without having a clear picture of how the final system will look like, solving one of the biggest challenges in the development of complex systems [7]. Note that in this first stage there is no need to declare which component is of which type, thus giving more freedom to make future changes to the system.…”

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Developing Intelligent Environments with OSGi and JADE

Carneiro

Nováis

Costa

et al. 2010

Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice III

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Abstract. The development of intelligent environments poses complex challenges, namely at the level of device heterogeneity and environment dynamics. In fact, we still lack supporting technologies and development approaches that can efficiently integrate different devices and technologies. In this paper we present how a recent integration of two important technologies, OSGi and Jade, can be used to significantly improve the development process, making it a more dynamic, modular and configurable one. We also focus on the main advantages that this integration provides to developers, from the Ambient Intelligence point of view. This work results from the development of two intelligent environments: VirtualECare, which is an intelligent environment for the monitorization of elderly in their homes and UMCourt, a virtual environment for dispute resolution.

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At Home with Ubiquitous Computing: Seven Challenges

Cited by 342 publications

References 16 publications

User interaction with everyday lighting systems

User interaction with everyday lighting systems

Time, Ownership and Awareness: The Value of Contextual Locations in the Home

Developing Intelligent Environments with OSGi and JADE

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