Exiting the cleanroom: on ecological validity and ubiquitous computing is a paper on prototyping, observation, controlled evaluation and field experiments of Ubicomp. There are three class of ubicomp applications: peripheral displays, mobile applications, and applications that integrate physical and digital interactions. Idiosyncrasies with ubicomp applications are due to the need for applications to be in [...]
Archive for the 'lit review' Category
Semi-public displays
March 20, 2008
While I was looking for papers on collaborative reminder systems, I found the paper titled: Semi-Public Displays for Small, Co-located Groups. This paper discussed the applications developed by the authors for small collocated groups. The public displays in this setting are meant to be source of ambient information about the group members.
Reminders – slide show [...]
Summary: Dey, Anind; Providing Architctural Support for Building Context-Aware Applications
March 13, 2008
Dey’s doctoral dissertation provides a set of requirements for a context-aware framework, and discusses an implementation of such a framework: the Context Toolkit. (Sorry, didn’t read all of it)
Major contributions (from dissertation):
identification of a novel design process for building context-aware applications;
identification of requirements to support the building and evolution of context-aware applications,
resulting [...]
Architecture for Privacy-Sensitive Ubicomp – Intro
March 6, 2008
Another paper on handling privacy in Ubicomp applications.T he objective of Ubiquitous Computing is: Technology should be extended in a fundamental manner that removes any conscious awareness of technology.
With the advancement in technology there is natural push towards developing a Ubiquitous Computing environment. But these technologies are introducing privacy risks faster than the time required [...]
Five Pitfalls: To avoid privacy issues
February 20, 2008
Users can increase their awareness about the privacy implications of a technical system:
If they understand the extent of the system’s capabilities
If they can conduct socially meaningfully actions in the system
Authors have identified five common pitfalls to avoid while designing information system. The pitfalls have been gleaned from the authors’ experience in designing a privacy preferences [...]
Article Summary: (Ballagas et al, 2005)
February 11, 2008
Sweep and Point & Shoot: Phonecam-Based
Interactions for Large Public Displays – Ballagas, Rohs, Sheridan, 2005
http://www.vs.inf.ethz.ch/res/papers/Sweep-PointShoot-CHI2005.pdf
This article explores two different methods of interacting with large public displays. The first method involves tagging each area on the display with a visual code (something similar to QR codes), which they call “point and shoot”. The other [...]
Ambient Agora Homepage
January 31, 2008
The Ambient Agora project has pretty much died off. But, they have a few more papers on the work at their project website: http://www.ambient-agoras.org/
There is a movie of the system in action at:
http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/ambiente/paper/2004/AmbientAgoras_MPEG2_prante.avi
