Of Smarthomes, IoT Plants, and Implicit Interaction Design

Bittner, Björn; Aslan, Ilhan; Dang, Chi Tai; André, Elisabeth

doi:10.1145/3294109.3295618

Cited by 16 publications

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“…Within this context, the argument for ambient technologies to support the remote home workers falls into place. Ambient systems have been previously used to mitigate "always-on" environments (Stawarz et al, 2013;Toch et al, 2020), and to support mental and physical wellbeing in various domestic and health applications (Weiser and Brown, 1995;Ludden and Meekhof, 2016;Bittner et al, 2019;Wohn et al, 2020).…”

Section: The Remote Worker and Wellbeing Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Highly relevant to workplace needs, various types of ambient systems (Weiser and Brown, 1995;Ludden and Meekhof, 2016) can present information in the periphery without distracting or burdening the users, helping in prioritisation and cognitive easing (Pousman and Stasko, 2006;Caraban et al, 2019). Examples of ambient systems include adaptive architectures -subtle changes in an architectural space (Schnädelbach et al, 2012;Dalton, 2016;Yannoudes, 2016;Nabil et al, 2017a,b;Jäger, 2017;Bader et al, 2019;Schnädelbach and Kirk, 2019), connected sensing objects -IoT (Bittner et al, 2019), or light feedback (Fortmann et al, 2013;Davis et al, 2016;Pereira et al, 2016). Focusing on ambient technology research for the workplace, we briefly highlight examples from HBI, HCI and Ubicomp literature.…”

Section: Introducing Ambient Workpacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding the Experiences of Remote Workers: Opportunities for Ambient Workspaces at Home

Margariti

Ali

Grave

et al. 2021

Front. Comput. Sci.

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As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many to work remotely from home, collaborating solely through digital technologies, a growing population of remote home workers are faced with profound wellbeing challenges. Passive sensing devices and ambient feedback have great potential to support the wellbeing of the remote workers, but there is a lack of background and understanding of the domestic workplace in terms of physical and affective dimensions and challenges to wellbeing. There are profound research gaps on wellbeing in the domestic workplace, with the current push for remote home and hybrid working making this topic timely. To address these gaps and shape a starting point for an “ambient workspaces” agenda, we conducted an exploratory study to map physical and affective aspects of working from home. The study involved both qualitative and quantitative measures of occupant experience, including sensor wristbands, and a custom web application for self-reporting mood and aspects of the environment. It included 13 participants for a period of 4 weeks, during a period of exclusive home working. Based on quantitative and qualitative analysis, our study addresses wellbeing challenges of the domestic workplace, establishes correlations between mood and physical aspects, and discusses the impact of feedback mechanisms in the domestic workplace on the behavior of remote workers. Insights from these observations are then used to inform a future design agenda for ambient technologies that supports the wellbeing of remote workers; addressing the design opportunities for ambient interventions in domestic workspaces. This work offers three contributions: 1) qualitatively and quantitatively informed understandings of the experiences of home-workers; 2) a future design agenda for “ambient home workspaces”; and 3) we propose three design concepts for ambient feedback and human–AI interactions in the built environment, to illustrate the utility of the design agenda.

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Section: The Remote Worker and Wellbeing Challengesmentioning

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Section: Introducing Ambient Workpacesmentioning

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Understanding the Experiences of Remote Workers: Opportunities for Ambient Workspaces at Home

Margariti

Ali

Grave

et al. 2021

Front. Comput. Sci.

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“…While stationary computer systems e.g. in smart homes only are able to react to proxemic behavior of users (e.g., [16]), virtual agents can at least use their body orientation and gaze behavior (e.g., [17]) to show proxemic behavior. Bee et al [18] used only the orientation dimension utilizing gaze in a "first impression scenario" to get into interaction with a human.…”

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Let Me Show You Your New Home: Studying the Effect of Proxemic-awareness of Robots on Users’ First Impressions

Petrak

Weitz

Aslan

et al. 2019

2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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First impressions play an important part in social interactions, establishing the foundation of a person's opinion about their counterparts. Since interpersonal communication is essentially multimodal, people are judged during first encounters by both their verbal utterances and nonverbal behavior, such as how they utilize eye contact, body distance, and body orientation. In this paper, we argue that robots would provide better user experiences, including being perceived as more likable if they were able to make a good first impression when introduced to a new home. Moreover, we wanted to test if robots can improve their perceived impression by behaving in a proxemic-aware manner; i.e., by following established social norms, which prescribe, for example how far people should position themselves around other objects to improve the facilitation of social interactions. In order to test this hypothesis, we conducted a user study with 16 participants in a virtual reality setting, comparing the impression of two agents being introduced to their new homes by users. We found that the proxemic-aware agent was indeed perceived as significantly better considering multiple constructs, including perceived anthropomorphism and trustworthiness.

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“…Recent developments in computing and design propagate designs for well-being (e.g., [7,15,37]), mindfulness (e.g., [3,47]), (soma)esthetic appreciation [21], mental and physical health (e.g., [9,13,35]). To this end, researcher build on foundations and advances in affective computing and user experience research and take inspirations from emerging (interdisciplinary) fields, such as positive computing [10], somaesthetics [38], and mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) [23].…”

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Towards Somaesthetic Smarthome Designs

Dang

Aslan

Lingenfelser

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things

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Have you ever experienced a mirror that not only "sees" how you see yourself, but tells you how others perceive you? May such a smartmirror help not only adapt/improve oneself externally (look) but also internally (mood, emotions)? What are the expectations, fears (privacy)? The acceptance of such a smart thing requires approaches that go beyond technology-driven designs. In this paper, we report on the construction of an affective emotion-sensitive smartmirror as a smart piece of furniture for smarthomes and explorative studies with that system which address somaesthetics and aims to help inhabitants in self-reflection. The paper presents and discusses the prototype implementation and the results of a study in which the ideas, concerns, and experiences for/with the self-reflection capabilities of the affective smartmirror were explored by participants using the prototype as a technology probe.

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Of Smarthomes, IoT Plants, and Implicit Interaction Design

Cited by 16 publications

References 41 publications

Understanding the Experiences of Remote Workers: Opportunities for Ambient Workspaces at Home

Understanding the Experiences of Remote Workers: Opportunities for Ambient Workspaces at Home

Let Me Show You Your New Home: Studying the Effect of Proxemic-awareness of Robots on Users’ First Impressions

Towards Somaesthetic Smarthome Designs

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