Location-Dependent Information Appliances for the Home

Elliot, K., Watson, M., Neustaedter, C. and Greenberg, S. (2007)
Location-Dependent Information Appliances for the Home. In Proceedings of Graphics Interface - GI'07, pages 151-158, May 28-30. Earlier version as Report 2006-848-41; see also Pervasive video.

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Abstract

Ethnographic studies of the home revealed the fundamental roles that physical locations and context play in how household members understand and manage conventional information. Yet we also know that digital information is becoming increasingly important to households. The problem is that this digital information is almost always tied to traditional computer displays, which inhibits its incorporation into household routines. Our solution, location-dependent information appliances, exploit both home location and context (as articulated in ethnographic studies) to enhance the role of ambient displays in the home setting; these displays provide home occupants with both background awareness of an information source and foreground methods to gain further details if desired. The novel aspect is that home occupants assign particular information to locations within a home in a way that makes sense to them. As a device is moved to a particular home location, information is automatically mapped to that device along with hints on how it should be displayed.

Keywords

Domestic technology, location-based design, ambientdisplays, tangible interfaces, ubiquitous computing, case studies; CR Categories: H.5.2 Information Interfaces and Presentation (e.g., HCI): User Interfaces - evaluation/methodology, prototyping, domestic technologies

Bibtex entry

@INPROCEEDINGS { 2007-LocationDependant.GI,
CLASS = { CONFARTICLE },
AUTHOR = { Elliot, K. and Watson, M. and Neustaedter, C. and Greenberg, S. },
TITLE = { Location-Dependent Information Appliances for the Home },
BOOKTITLE = { Proceedings of Graphics Interface - GI'07 },
MONTH = { May 28-30 },
PAGES = { 151-158 },
YEAR = { 2007 },
NOTE = { Earlier version as Report 2006-848-41; see also Pervasive video },
KEYWORDS = { Domestic technology, location-based design, ambientdisplays, tangible interfaces, ubiquitous computing, case studies; CR Categories: H.5.2 Information Interfaces and Presentation (e.g., HCI): User Interfaces - evaluation/methodology, prototyping, domestic technologies },
}