HyCon: A framework for context-aware mobile hypermedia

Bouvin, Niels Olof; Christensen, Bent G.; Grønbæk, Kaj; Hansen, Frank Allan

doi:10.1080/13614560410001725310

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“…Several previous projects using mobile technologies for learning purposes have been documented in the literature; some examples are AmbientWood [32], HyCon [17], [4], Chawton House [31], Contextual Media [8], uLearn [22], eBag [5], and the RAFT project [30]. For instance, Weal et al [32] describe the Ambient Wood project, which has developed a mixed reality space located in a woodland in Sussex.…”

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“…The infrastructure supports a playful learning experience where children could explore and reflect upon a physical environment that had been augmented with a variety of digital services. Another example is the HyCon project [17], [4], utilising GPS enabled mobile phones to support location-based exercises and documentation of activities on location in nature or urban settings. HyCon has been evaluated in several out-of-school projects [3].…”

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Mobile urban drama for multimedia-based out-of-school learning

Hansen

Kortbek

Grønbæk

2010

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

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This paper describes the notion of Mobile Urban Drama and how a particular production is implemented to support engaging experiences via location-based mobile phone software. Mobile Urban Drama is a general concept that has been adapted for outof-school learning projects by introducing support for solving assignments and producing multimedia-based documentation for learning purposes. Media production is seamlessly supported through a context-aware media management system. The Mobile Urban Drama project, "HASLEINTERACTIVE", is presented. It supports biology, geography and math lessons for 7 th to 9 th graders in schools. The story is an environmental thriller that takes place partly on the pupils' mobile phones and partly in the real worldin nature, which must be investigated through exercises. The level of pupil engagement is evaluated through interviews with teachers and pupils, as well as an analysis of pupil productivity and produced media materials during the interactive Mobile Urban Drama experience. It is argued how the out-of-school learning features are successfully supported by the system, and we conclude that the level of productivity and engagement is higher than in usual pupil group work.

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Mobile urban drama for multimedia-based out-of-school learning

Hansen

Kortbek

Grønbæk

2010

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

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“…In particular we see a need for the ubiquitous open hypermedia systems, that deals with context-awareness (e.g. HyCon (Bouvin et al 2003)) and augmentation of the physical world (e.g. the Topos Physical Hypermedia .…”

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Interactive Spaces Towards Collaborative Structuring and Ubiquitous Presentation in Domestic Environments

Grønbæk¹,

Petersen²

2004

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This paper analyses the use of media and material in private homes based on empirical studies in a project on designing interactive domestic environments. Based on the analyses we propose a Domestic Hypermedia infrastructure (DoHM) combining spatial, context-aware and physical hypermedia to support collaborative structuring and ubiquitous presentation of materials in private homes. With DoHM we propose establishing new relationship between digital and physical hyperspaces, folding hyperspaces into the physical space of the household. Thus we strive to combine the qualities of physical domestic materials and spaces with the flexibility and dynamics of digital hyperspaces. We propose a variety of new ubiquitous home appliances called MediaWall, MediaTable, MediaTray and MediaPort, which address these issues. KeywordsInteractive spaces, augmented reality, context awareness, ubiquitous hypermedia, domestic technology, multimedia, physical hypermedia, INTERACTIVE SPACESDesigning interactive spaces is an effort which combines the competencies of architects and computer scientists. In Center for Interactive Spaces, we take activities as the common starting point when we co-design space and technology in an iterative design process, where neither defines the other nor is taken for granted but both dimensions are manipulated and synthesized into innovative design concepts. Designing interactive technology in this perspective has a number of implications. First, where much focus in the field of domestic technologies has been on exploiting technological possibilities to support awareness and communication amongst people who are not co-located (Hutchinson et al. 2003, Mynat et al. 2003, a focus on interactivespaces as described above implies support for interaction amongst people, who are co-located. In a domestic context, this aspect becomes crucial, as we currently see an increased digitization of domestic material, e.g. photos, movies, calendars, recipes, notes, banking, messages from school etc. increasingly become digitized and thus no longer have an inherent physical form. Digital materials often reside on a personal computer, which provides single user access to materials rather than engaging multiuser experiences which are highlighted in an interactivespaces perspective. Moreover, when studying how physical domestic materials are organised in homes, the actual physical layout of the home provides an implicit structuring mechanism for these materials. Thus, a perspective of interactivespaces implies carefully considering the relationship between digital and physical spaces. In this work, we adopt a folding strategy where the digital spaces is folded into the physical space seeking to maintain the qualities of both types of spaces Addressing a domestic space moreover has a number of consequences. Historically, the workplace has undergone a similar transition of digitization as we currently witness in homes. However, the home is quite different from the workplace in many respects. Activities in the home are les...

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“…Peripheral awareness of earlier activities is created through the traces of material left on dining table. This is implemented in DoHM through adding two central concepts to the HyCon framework [1] in order to handle places and presentation. PlaceReps represent the place or context of a particular domestic hypermedia surface in the home; and PresStyles represent the style specification for a given object or surface.…”

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“…The DoHM domestic hypermedia infrastructure (see Figure 5) is built on top of the open context-aware hypermedia framework HyCon [1]. HyCon is a context-aware hypermedia framework with a generic sensor layer that enables hypermedia clients to sense the context of users and devices registered in the framework.…”

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Shaping the Ambience of Homes with Domestic Hypermedia

Petersen

Grønbæk

2004

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. We currently witness a massive digitization of domestic materials e.g. photos, music, calendars, recipes, notes, messages. This digitization provides new conditions for how we interact with materials as well as how users shape the ambience of their homes. Observing the qualities of physical materials in the home, the process of digitization risks loosing the qualities of the spatial distribution, the aesthetics, and common reference points offered by physical materials and places in the home. We present a concept of domestic hypermedia (DoHM), which exploits potentials of digital materials and at the same time allow people to interact with digital materials in engaging ways providing rich experiences when organizing and using digital materials in homes. We present an infrastructure and design concepts that offer: ambient access to digital materials, common reference points, and collective experiences.

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HyCon: A framework for context-aware mobile hypermedia

Cited by 37 publications

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Mobile urban drama for multimedia-based out-of-school learning

Mobile urban drama for multimedia-based out-of-school learning

Interactive Spaces Towards Collaborative Structuring and Ubiquitous Presentation in Domestic Environments

Shaping the Ambience of Homes with Domestic Hypermedia

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