Touch-and-connect: a connection request framework for ad-hoc networks and the pervasive computing environment

Iwasaki, Yohei; Kawaguchi, Nobuo; Inagaki, Yasuyoshi

doi:10.1109/percom.2003.1192723

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“…Many researchers have focused on providing device connections using collocated human movements or continuous actions. These interfaces include pressing buttons simultaneously on both devices [8] , pressing buttons sequentially [9] , bumping devices together [10][11][12] , shaking devices together [13][14] , and stroking the device [15] . The spatial proximity of the two devices is sensed via infrared or radio frequency identification (RFID) technology [8] .…”

Section: Related Work On Device Connectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Wireless device connection problems and design solutions

Song

Norman

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et al. 2016

Chin. J. Mech. Eng.

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Users, especially the non-expert users, commonly experience problems when connecting multiple devices with interoperability. While studies on multiple device connections are mostly concentrated on spontaneous device association techniques with a focus on security aspects, the research on user interaction for device connection is still limited. More research into understanding people is needed for designers to devise usable techniques. This research applies the Research-through-Design method and studies the non-expert users' interactions in establishing wireless connections between devices. The "Learning from Examples" concept is adopted to develop a study focus line by learning from the expert users' interaction with devices. This focus line is then used for guiding researchers to explore the non-expert users' difficulties at each stage of the focus line. Finally, the Research-through-Design approach is used to understand the users' difficulties, gain insights to design problems and suggest usable solutions. When connecting a device, the user is required to manage not only the device's functionality but also the interaction between devices. Based on learning from failures, an important insight is found that the existing design approach to improve single-device interaction issues, such as improvements to graphical user interfaces or computer guidance, cannot help users to handle problems between multiple devices. This study finally proposes a desirable user-device interaction in which images of two devices function together with a system image to provide the user with feedback on the status of the connection, which allows them to infer any required actions.

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Section: Related Work On Device Connectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Firstly, much existing work has assumed that associated devices have primitive connections to other devices or services [8][9][14][15] . It follows that help is not available to the user when they have a problem with the primitive connection.…”

Section: Related Work On Device Connectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wireless device connection problems and design solutions

Song

Norman

Nam

et al. 2016

Chin. J. Mech. Eng.

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“…On the other hand, in the distributed collaboration framework such as Touch-and-Connect [7] and AMIDEN [11], each device has application-specific functions (application protocol). Devices directly communicate with each other to realize the device collaboration.…”

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An Automatic Software Decentralization Framework for Distributed Device Collaboration

Iwasaki

Kawaguchi

2007

27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW'07)

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Recently, many low-profile devices with RF communication features have been developed such as sensor network nodes and one-chip microcomputers. This caused a variety of gadgets join to the wireless network. However, in order to realize collaborations between these devices, generally we have to develop complicated distributed software. In this paper, we propose an automatic software decentralization method, which converts a stand-alone software program into distributed software programs. In order to execute the generated software on these low-profile devices, we employ the programming language nesC for a decentralization target. We also have implemented applications with real hardware devices to exemplify that the proposed method successfully improves the ease of development.

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“…There has been work on connection establishment using intuitive means [1,9,8,15,6,5]. However, from a connection management viewpoint, a physical cable still has several advantages.…”

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tranSticks

Ayatsuka

Rekimoto

2005

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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A virtually connected medium called tranStick is described that functions both as a "virtual wire" and as a "memory card" containing a shared space. A user can connect two networked devices by simply placing one of a pair of tranSticks with the same identifier into each device. The tranSticks provide feedback indicating that the devices are connected; the connection to be closed or changed in the same way it would be if the devices were connected by a physical cable. A user can also access to a shared space on a network as if the space were in the tranStick. Since tranSticks contain long secret keys, the process of finding another tranStick with the same identifier can be encrypted. The tranStick approach differs from other approaches in that it provides feedback from the connection as well as serving as a medium for establishing a connection, and it enables disconnection and switchover to be done intuitively because the operations are reversible.

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Touch-and-connect: a connection request framework for ad-hoc networks and the pervasive computing environment

Cited by 18 publications

References 8 publications

Wireless device connection problems and design solutions

Wireless device connection problems and design solutions

An Automatic Software Decentralization Framework for Distributed Device Collaboration

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