Design and Evaluation of an Ambient Display to Support Time Management during Meetings

Occhialini, Valentina; Essen, Harm van; Eggen, Berry

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23771-3_20

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“…While the basic approach of activating lights when there are people present can already provide the above-mentioned benefits, automated control can also contribute to more complex solutions. Lighting can act as an ambient display [14], [16], [29], or as a more explicit spatial information presentation tool [15].…”

Section: Automated Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial Control Framework for Interactive Lighting

Hakulinen

Turunen

Heimonen

2013

Proceedings of International Conference on Making Sense of Converging Media

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Lighting has become an integral element in interactive environments as a result of advances in LED and home automation technology. New models for controlling diverse sets of lighting fixtures are needed. Traditional lighting control, where users manipulate the state of individual light fixtures, is not efficient or expressive in situations where a large number of lights with complex parameters need to be configured. We present a multi-tiered software framework which enables the creation of new kind of user interfaces for controlling lighting and construction of intelligent solutions which automatically control lights. Using the low level of the framework, individual fixtures are controlled over unified protocol, which abstracts the exact technical capabilities of lighting hardware. At the spatial lighting service level the control is realized using concepts like area and direction. The framework has been used in several real-world installations, e.g., to create physical exercise games for children and to design light-based indoor guidance.

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Section: Automated Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Spatial Control Framework for Interactive Lighting

Hakulinen

Turunen

Heimonen

2013

Proceedings of International Conference on Making Sense of Converging Media

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“…Many pre-commercial concepts aim for unintrusive situational awareness of time, featuring peripheral ambient displays of light, color, and progress bars [29,36] or visual displays held by the audience [10]. These are generally visual and public and again overlook chair-speaker communication.…”

Section: Existing Presentation Supportmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…36]. 5 GR speakers epitomized this commitment, battling on amidst blaring music and sans microphone.…”

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The design and field observation of a haptic notification system for timing awareness during oral presentations

Tam

MacLean

McGrenere

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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To moderate oral presentations a chair must manage time, and communicate time parameters to speakers through a variety of means. But speakers often miss time cues, chairs cannot confirm their receipt, and the broken dialogue can be a sideshow for the audience. We developed HaNS, a wireless wrist-worn chair-speaker Haptic Notification System that delivers tactile cues for time-managing oral presentations, and performed field observations at university research seminars and two mid-sized academic conferences (input from 66 speakers, 21 chairs, and 65 audience members). Results indicate that HaNS can improve a user's awareness of time, facilitate chair-speaker coordination, and reduce distraction of speaker and audience through its private communication channel. Eliminating overruns will require improvement in speaker 'internal' control, which our results suggest HaNS can also support given practice. We conclude with design guidelines for both conference-deployed and personal timing tools, using touch or another notification modality.

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“…Some examples mentioned above fall into this category: Lanterns (Dillenbourg et al, 2011) help students become aware of surrounding peer progress. Occhialini et al (2011) augment the peripheral environment through halogen spots information with time management data. Ambient displays are still best known for being physicial in nature.…”

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Towards Balanced Discussions in the Classroom Using Ambient Information Visualisations

Charleer

Klerkx

Duval

et al. 2017

IJTEL

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Abstract:In a collaborative learning environment, the promotion and support of well-balanced student participation is an important step towards the achievement of learning outcomes. Ambient information visualisations can help raise awareness of the balance of distribution in meetings and small learner groups. This paper explores the use of ambient information in the classroom, where we attempt to encourage a proper balance of feedback between student groups during "design critique" studio sessions. The contribution of the paper is two-fold: i) it presents necessary design choices for ambient visualisations that promote feedback balance in classrooms, motivating under-participators while limiting over-participation, and ii) it shows the effects on student perception and feedback participation through the actual deployment of such visualisations in "real classroom sessions".Keywords: learning analytics, ambient displays, ambient information visualisation, discussion participation, design critique, participation balance, awareness, classroom learning activities IntroductionLearning Analytics, or the collection and analysis of traces that learners leave behind, can help to understand and optimize (human) learning and learning environments (Siemens & Long, 2011). Furthermore, it can help to raise awareness of personal and peer learning activities, help reflect on and make sense of learner traces, and impact behaviour (Verbert, Duval, Klerkx, Govaerts, & Santos, 2013). These traces can reflect activities inside and outside the classroom (Santos et al., 2013) of both students and teachers, but can also be used to impact activities in a live classroom. It allows teachers to intervene or orchestrate (Martinez-Maldonado, Kay, Yacef, & Schwendimann, 2012), and students to become aware of their behaviour and progress on tasks (Dillenbourg et al., 2011).In this paper, we focus on visualising learning analytics live in two Master courses at KU Leuven, Belgium: "Information Visualisation" (IV) and "Fundamentals of Computer-Human Interaction" (FCHI). In these courses, students work in group to design, implement, present and iterate on information visualisations in the former, and to develop a mobile game in the latter. The courses put a large emphasis on peer review, teaching students how to evaluate and discuss their designs and technical implementations, in a community of practice (Wenger, 2011). This is supported through the use of blogs that helps students report and share opinions and knowledge (Marques, Krejci, Siqueira, Pimentel, & Braz, 2013). As communication and collaboration skills are key 21st century competences for lifelong learning (Lee, Tsai, Chai, & Koh, 2014), "design critique" face-to-face sessions are organised where students present their group's progress to the class and provide feedback to each other on their intermediate results.Over-and under-participation in collaborative learning settings can reduce motivation and lower learning outcomes (Salomon & Globerson, 1989). Literature has shown that ambient d...

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Design and Evaluation of an Ambient Display to Support Time Management during Meetings

Cited by 23 publications

References 28 publications

Spatial Control Framework for Interactive Lighting

Spatial Control Framework for Interactive Lighting

The design and field observation of a haptic notification system for timing awareness during oral presentations

Towards Balanced Discussions in the Classroom Using Ambient Information Visualisations

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