Implications of Theories of Communication and Spatial Behavior for the Design of Interactive Environments

Rizopoulos, Charalampos; Charitos, Dimitris

doi:10.1109/ie.2011.57

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“…A variety of smart home systems for assisted living environments have been proposed and developed, but there are, in fact, few homes that apply smart technologies. One of the main reasons for this is the complexity and varied design requirements associated with different domains of the home, which are communication [ 89 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 ], control [ 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 , 105 , 106 , 107 , 108 , 109 , 110 ], monitoring [ 111 , 112 , 113 , 114 , 115 , 116 ], entertainment [ 117 , 118 , 119 , 120 ], and residential and living spaces [ 121 , 122 ].…”

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A Human–Machine Interface Based on Eye Tracking for Controlling and Monitoring a Smart Home Using the Internet of Things

Bissoli

Lavino-Júnior

Sime

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People with severe disabilities may have difficulties when interacting with their home devices due to the limitations inherent to their disability. Simple home activities may even be impossible for this group of people. Although much work has been devoted to proposing new assistive technologies to improve the lives of people with disabilities, some studies have found that the abandonment of such technologies is quite high. This work presents a new assistive system based on eye tracking for controlling and monitoring a smart home, based on the Internet of Things, which was developed following concepts of user-centered design and usability. With this system, a person with severe disabilities was able to control everyday equipment in her residence, such as lamps, television, fan, and radio. In addition, her caregiver was able to monitor remotely, by Internet, her use of the system in real time. Additionally, the user interface developed here has some functionalities that allowed improving the usability of the system as a whole. The experiments were divided into two steps. In the first step, the assistive system was assembled in an actual home where tests were conducted with 29 participants without disabilities. In the second step, the system was tested with online monitoring for seven days by a person with severe disability (end-user), in her own home, not only to increase convenience and comfort, but also so that the system could be tested where it would in fact be used. At the end of both steps, all the participants answered the System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire, which showed that both the group of participants without disabilities and the person with severe disabilities evaluated the assistive system with mean scores of 89.9 and 92.5, respectively.

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A Human–Machine Interface Based on Eye Tracking for Controlling and Monitoring a Smart Home Using the Internet of Things

Bissoli

Lavino-Júnior

Sime

et al. 2019

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“…En primer lugar, se consideraron tres aspectos de la teoría de la comunicación: el flujo de información, control en sistemas y comportamiento social [14]. En segundo lugar, se definió la usabilidad como la facilidad de uso del espacio, bajo metas sistémicas [15] y, en tercer lugar, se adoptó el concepto IEC, como sistemas interactivos que consisten de elementos tecnológicos dispersos en el espacio concreto y/o embebidos en objetos físicos [8]; concepto que engloba los tres casos discutidos hasta ahora.…”

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“…Su enfoque es incidir en las disciplinas que se ven involucradas en la creación de los espacios interactivos para dar una plataforma de entendimiento que permita una aproximación transdisciplinar y de esta manera se optimicen los esfuerzos provenientes de cada una. Para ello, se hizo una revisión de la teoría de la comunicación, la usabilidad y el concepto de interfaz espacial comunicativa [8,9], con el fin de generar un marco de entendimiento sobre el espacio interactivo como fenómeno. Posteriormente, se compararon tres casos diferentes con relación a dicho fenómeno: una torre de control del tráfico aéreo, talleres de metalmecánica y un espacio rururbano -proceso de ubicación de usos tradicionalmente urbanos en el entorno rural-.…”

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Estrategias de diagnóstico de usabilidad para espacios interactivos en ambientes socio-técnicos: una revisión comparativa

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Este trabajo tiene como intención realizar una revisión comparativa de tres experiencias de diagnóstico de usabilidad para espacios interactivos en ambientes socio-técnicos. La primera, generada para la torre de control de tráfico aéreo del Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México (AICM); la segunda, para los talleres de metalmecánica de una empresa particular; y la tercera, para el fraccionamiento de Valle de San Pedro, Tijuana. Dicha comparación pretende determinar qué es un espacio interactivo, cuáles son las cualidades que lo definen, y cómo pueden ser medidas. Para ello se presentarán los tres casos, se contrastarán sus funciones, y se determinarán sus similitudes para detectar las cualidades genéricas de interacción. Con esto se pretende llegar a un entendimiento transdisciplinar para la optimización de los ambientes socio-técnicos, los cuales hasta ahora se han abordado desde la perspectiva de riesgos -ergonómicos, psicosociales y organizacionales-, pero no desde la facilidad de uso, cualidad que abarca más apropiadamente el fenómeno de la interacción y el entendimiento de los requerimientos de usuario. Se espera que el impacto de este trabajo dé mejores pautas para el Diseño Centrado en el Usuario (DCU) en campos de la ingeniería, el diseño de producto, y diseño urbano.

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“…light, colour, noise level, temperature etc.). A review of relevant literature (see [35]) highlights some indicative dimensions of environmental appraisal, listed below (expanded and adapted from [35]):…”

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The Experience of Spatial Interaction: Conceptualizing the User Experience of Virtual Environments

Rizopoulos

Charitos

2014

Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions

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This paper examines the issue of User Experience (UX) as applied to immersive Virtual Reality from the standpoint of environmental psychology and related fields as a complement to principles from the fields of product design, psychology of emotion, formal aesthetics etc. Partly on account of its generality, multidisciplinary nature, and broad applicability, UX continues to defy a single commonly accepted definition, a fact which necessitates a holistic treatment of the subject of spatial interaction design. Various approaches and models of environmental psychology, as well as approaches to usability and UX are outlined in light of the need to highlight the influence and effects of particular spatial designs to particular dimensions of UX. Additionally, the concept and constituent dimensions of environmental appraisal are similarly defined and analysed, and indicative experimental designs currently under development are briefly described.

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Implications of Theories of Communication and Spatial Behavior for the Design of Interactive Environments

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

A Human–Machine Interface Based on Eye Tracking for Controlling and Monitoring a Smart Home Using the Internet of Things

A Human–Machine Interface Based on Eye Tracking for Controlling and Monitoring a Smart Home Using the Internet of Things

Estrategias de diagnóstico de usabilidad para espacios interactivos en ambientes socio-técnicos: una revisión comparativa

The Experience of Spatial Interaction: Conceptualizing the User Experience of Virtual Environments

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