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Awareness , Connectedness, and Privacy| old_uid | 7755 |
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| title | Awareness , Connectedness, and Privacy |
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| start_date | 2009/12/03 |
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| schedule | 16h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | auditorium |
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| summary | Robot rabbits that tell you the weather at another city, presence lamps that illuminate when your grandfather is at home, pillows that light up when a remote person hugs them, buddy lists that get updated automatically to show the status of your friends: these are all examples of systems or system features designed to provide awareness of another person with minimal effort and for no apparent functional use. Similar but more functional are applications for locating Alzheimer patients, for providing awareness of co-workers, etc .The field of human-computer interaction has for the last ten years studied extensively this type of applications; often this effort is playful, clever, may reach the consumer market and lead to adoption of products and services. On the downside this research lead by ad hoc design efforts can appear as a repetitive trial and error search for the next killer application making it difficult to characterize progress in the field.
This talk provides an overview of related applications research done in Eindhoven, charts the design space of awareness systems for leisure and social use, exploring whether they provide any useful function, what challenges confront interaction designers and identifying the major research challenges for this field: how to address privacy, how to measure benefits, how to provide control to users. The concept of connectedness is discussed and applications of awareness systems for several popular scenarios regarding Ambient Intelligence are discussed: independent living, intra family communication. |
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| responsibles | Debats |
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