“Playing with the Bits” User-Configuration of Ubiquitous Domestic Environments

Humble, Jan; Crabtree, Andy; Hemmings, Terry; Åkesson, Karl-Petter; Koleva, Boriana; Rodden, Tom; Hansson, Pär

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-39653-6_20

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“…The focus was on controlling the illumination of the environment, the front door lock control, long-term follow-up of the activities (with possible notifications and alarms to an external system), and the use of spoken dialogue interaction to control parts of the system. The project was built on earlier research that acknowledged how the devices were placed within an environment, how the combinations of these devices were managed practically, and how these devices worked together [6,17,28,34].…”

Section: Home Control System For An Intelligent Nursing Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The design methodology for studying smart but complex do-it-yourself experiences

Kymäläinen

2015

AIS

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Abstract. This article illustrates design-oriented human-computer interaction (HCI) research for creating do-it-yourself (DIY) experiences for emerging technologies. It contemplates the design objectives for the DIY construction processes through the lens of Ecological Approach to Smart Environments (EASE) and by exemplifying three case studies. The first case study introduces the design of the Home Control System of a nursing ecology for the aged. The second case study presents the Music Creation Tool research in music therapy ecology for those with disabilities, and the third study, Life Story Creation, presents a memorysharing application for elderly amateur writers. The article carefully considers the role of users in HCI research, who in the DIY context are expected to be active and motivated crafters and builders of their personal environments. The focus of research, the user experience studies, aims at supporting creating, configuring and sharing experiences within the constructed prototypes, and at determining the new experiences that emerge from the research. The concluding objective for the article is presenting of a design framework for involving the initiative domain owners to the DIY research.Keywords: Human-computer interaction (HCI), do-it-yourself (DIY), ecological approach to smart environments (EASE), user experience design (UX), intelligent environments (IE)

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Section: Home Control System For An Intelligent Nursing Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

The design methodology for studying smart but complex do-it-yourself experiences

Kymäläinen

2015

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“…Other visual prototyping tools like the rule-based language OSCAR [7] and Jigsaw [2], target domestic spaces and propose an approach to discovering, connecting and controlling services and devices. However, they offer limited expressiveness to access the functionalities of entities.…”

Section: Visual Paradigms For Programming Home Automation Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Easing the programming of applications for assisting users in their everyday life has been a dominant trend in the home automation research community [1,2,3,4,5,6]. These applications aim to address the user needs by automating their daily tasks in various areas of the home automation domain, such as assisted living, home security, and energy management.…”

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Taxonomy-driven prototyping of home automation applications: A novice-programmer visual language and its evaluation

Drey

Consel

2012

Journal of Visual Languages & Computing

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Home automation environments are dedicated to helping users in their everyday life and are being deployed in an increasing number of areas, including home security, energy consumption, and assisted living. The range of situations to be addressed makes the development of home automation applications challenging: it requires to manage heterogeneous entities with a wide variety of functionalities. Moreover, since this area covers a large spectrum of user needs, it is crucial to ease the development and the evolution of these applications. This paper presents Pantagruel, an expressive and accessible approach to integrating a taxonomical description of a home automation environment into a visual programming language. A taxonomy describes the relevant entities of a given home automation area and serves as a parameter to a sensor-controller-actuator development paradigm. The orchestration of area-specific entities is supported by high-level constructs, customized with respect to taxonomical information.We have implemented a visual environment that integrates a taxonomical approach in the development of orchestration rules. Furthermore, we have developed a compiler for Pantagruel and successfully used it to test applications in various areas related to orchestration development for the domain of home automation. Finally, we have successfully evaluated the usability of Pantagruel through a user study performed with eighteen novice programmers.

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“…Compared to the Jigsaw domestic component system [11], we have taken a material centered approach. We have focused on the organization of domestic material and on how we can provide a seamless folding between the physical and digital material spaces.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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“…In achieving that we introduce a novel combination of open hypermedia, spatial hypermedia, physical hypermedia, and context-awareness in the DoHM infrastructure. Where Humble et al [11] focus on supporting transformations between digital and physical material, we focus on linking and integrating the physical and the digital. We do this in terms of the home environment per se by developing support for the DoHM system which directly addresses surfaces in the home and let users address arbitrary surfaces from every DoHM client running in the home.…”

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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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“Playing with the Bits” User-Configuration of Ubiquitous Domestic Environments

Cited by 129 publications

References 3 publications

The design methodology for studying smart but complex do-it-yourself experiences

The design methodology for studying smart but complex do-it-yourself experiences

Taxonomy-driven prototyping of home automation applications: A novice-programmer visual language and its evaluation

Shaping the Ambience of Homes with Domestic Hypermedia

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