User Expectations for Simple Mobile Ubiquitous Computing Environments

Brugnoli, Maria Cristina; Hamard, John; Rukzio, Enrico

doi:10.1109/wmcs.2005.27

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“…To overcome this limitation, the focus has been shifted towards portable profiles. This shift is confirmed by an evaluation of user expectations in [5] where the most popular idea among participants was the possibility of using a so-called "Simplicity Card" containing user profile and personal data in conjunction with a mobile phone. Most participants saw it as "Personal ID" and as a kind of an extension of themselves.…”

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Personalization algorithms for portable personality

Uhlmann

Lugmayr

2008

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Entertainment and Media in the Ubiquitous Era

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With the advances in ubiquitous computing, there is an increasing focus on personalization of user information especially in web applications. Currently those personalized user profiles are scattered around the Internet, mostly stored for each individual website. Therefore, this prohibits the usage of those profiles in other environments such as shopping in local stores or sharing interests among people. The so-called Portable Personality focuses on the management and distribution of personalized profiles via mobile devices. This paper provides an overview of related factors, which are to be considered in a portable personality environment. We discuss common user profile categorization approaches and their possible representation. Moreover, we mention the current state-of-the-art of profile acquisition and management algorithms to obtain and handle personalized information. This also includes approaches towards portable profiles. At the end, profile merging and personalization algorithms are covered to handle the challenges of aggregate multiple profiles and personalized recommendations based on distributed (portable) profiles.

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Section: Portabilitymentioning

confidence: 82%

Personalization algorithms for portable personality

Uhlmann

Lugmayr

2008

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Entertainment and Media in the Ubiquitous Era

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“…Studies of software engineering processes have used focus groups to gather data about workflow patterns in engineering teams [6]. User-and interaction-oriented design paradigms suggest the use of focus groups to gather qualitative data on user expectations and system requirements, and to evaluate prototype interfaces [11,3,7]. For technology developers, focus groups also afford the opportunity to demonstrate sincere interest in user concerns.…”

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Uncertainty in the Development and Use of Equation of State Models

Weirs

Fabian

Potter

et al. 2013

Int. J. UncertaintyQuantification

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In this paper we present the results from a series of focus groups on the visualization of uncertainty in Equation-Of-State (EOS) models. The initial goal was to identify the most effective ways to present EOS uncertainty to analysts, code developers, and material modelers. Four prototype visualizations were developed to presented EOS surfaces in a three-dimensional, thermodynamic space. Focus group participants, primarily from Sandia National Laboratories, evaluated particular features of the various techniques for different use cases and discussed their individual workflow processes, experiences with other visualization tools, and the impact of uncertainty to their work. Related to our prototypes, we found the 3D presentations to be helpful for seeing a large amount of information at once and for a big-picture view; however, participants also desired relatively simple, two-dimensional graphics for better quantitative understanding, and because these plots are part of the existing visual language for material models. In addition to feedback on the prototypes, several themes and issues emerged that are as compelling as the original goal and will eventually serve as a starting point for further development of visualization and analysis tools. In particular, a distributed workflow centered around material models was identified. It was also found that users of material models contribute and extract information at different points in this workflow depending on their role, but encounter various institutional and technical barriers which restrict the flow of information. We expect the identification of this workflow, as well as the potential bottlenecks, to influence the development of visualizations to improve communication across this workflow and effectively express the uncertainties within the material models community.

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“…According to a recent study [2], half of all reportedly malfunctioning devices returned to stores are in full working order; customers just couldn't figure out how to operate them. In another user study [3], some participants saw technologies as something excessive, sometimes useless and invasive while others (particularly, mature adults with non-technical backgrounds) only used them to perform basic tasks. A study on usability of smart conference rooms [4] also found that the users tended to rely on experts (wizards) for technical operations.…”

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Task-Oriented Systems for Interaction with Ubiquitous Computing Environments

Torabi

Loke

2012

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

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We present the design and implementation of a task-oriented system, that dynamically binds user tasks to available devices and services within a ubiquitous environment. The system provides users with a task-based interface for interacting with the environment. This interface is reoriented around user tasks, rather than particular functions of individual devices or services. The system has two main feature: (1) context-aware task recommendation and (2) task guidance, execution, and management. The fundamental input into the system is task descriptions, XML specifications that describe how tasks are executed. The abstraction of these descriptions allows tasks to be executed in diversely ubiquitous computing environments.

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User Expectations for Simple Mobile Ubiquitous Computing Environments

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Personalization algorithms for portable personality

Personalization algorithms for portable personality

Uncertainty in the Development and Use of Equation of State Models

Task-Oriented Systems for Interaction with Ubiquitous Computing Environments

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