Sharing Content and Experiences in Smart Environments

Plomp, Johan; Heinilä, Juhani; Ikonen, Veikko; Kaasinen, Eija; Välkkynen, Pasi

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-93808-0_19

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“…In future visions [2,[12][13][14][15] intelligent environments are characterized by information and communication technology embedded so seamlessly into our physical environments and in various everyday objects that ICT-enabled features will become a natural part of our living and working environments. People are surrounded by intuitive interfaces, and the environment is capable of recognizing and proactively responding to the presence of different individuals in a seamless, unobtrusive and often invisible way.…”

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“…Experimental intelligent environments have been built in enclosed spaces such as laboratories, homes and museums, where the technical arrangements are manageable and affordable, and where there are fewer stakeholders involved. Research results on intelligent environments have been described in the fields of housing [16][17][18], health [18,19], assisted living [20][21][22][23], ambient media [13,24] as well as security and safety [18,23,25,26]. These application fields are often interconnected as, for instance, home services may include security features.…”

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A User-Centric View of Intelligent Environments: User Expectations, User Experience and User Role in Building Intelligent Environments

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Our everyday environments are gradually becoming intelligent, facilitated both by technological development and user activities. Although large-scale intelligent environments are still rare in actual everyday use, they have been studied for quite a long time, and several user studies have been carried out. In this paper, we present a user-centric view of intelligent environments based on published research results and our own experiences from user studies with concepts and prototypes. We analyze user acceptance and users’ expectations that affect users’ willingness to start using intelligent environments and to continue using them. We discuss user experience of interacting with intelligent environments where physical and virtual elements are intertwined. Finally, we touch on the role of users in shaping their own intelligent environments instead of just using ready-made environments. People are not merely “using” the intelligent environments but they live in them, and they experience the environments via embedded services and new interaction tools as well as the physical and social environment. Intelligent environments should provide emotional as well as instrumental value to the people who live in them, and the environments should be trustworthy and controllable both by regular users and occasional visitors. Understanding user expectations and user experience in intelligent environments, and providing users with tools to influence the environments can help to shape the vision of intelligent environments into meaningful, acceptable and appealing service entities for all those who live and act in them

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A User-Centric View of Intelligent Environments: User Expectations, User Experience and User Role in Building Intelligent Environments

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“…Second, in the health care sector user's mental and physical activities could be remotely monitored by observing the user interactions with the home to support either the rehabilitation progress after an injury or the nurturing of the elderly [3], [7], [12], [13]. Third, in social media, user position and activity information could be automatically communicated to friends and relatives to make people more aware how their close-ones are doing [5], [11], [6].…”

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Reliability of the TileTrack capacitive user tracking system in smart home environment

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This paper presents a short reliability analysis of the passive and device-free human positioning system called TileTrack. The presented tracking system is fully unobtrusive and requires the user to neither to wear any tags nor to perform any special action, such as talk, to be tracked. Thus, it promotes the concept of calm technology by pushing the sensing actions to the background. The system uses capacitive measurements to determine the placement of feet on different transmitting floor segments. The system's reliability and capability to track moving humans was tested in a real apartment, and the test results are presented as well as analyzed in this paper.

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“…Online DIY communities, such as Instructables, Dorkbot, Craftster, Ravelry, Etsy, Spoonflower, Crafster and Adafruit have encouraged single-subject enthusiasts to use computing in order to find the means for collaborating and sharing their work. Within these communities, users create and import their own content for others to share in the public virtual spaces of Web 2.0 and add value by commenting, recommending or tagging each other's content [29].…”

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

Kymäläinen

2015

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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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Sharing Content and Experiences in Smart Environments

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A User-Centric View of Intelligent Environments: User Expectations, User Experience and User Role in Building Intelligent Environments

A User-Centric View of Intelligent Environments: User Expectations, User Experience and User Role in Building Intelligent Environments

Reliability of the TileTrack capacitive user tracking system in smart home environment

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

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