✨ We’re excited to share the fourth of our five posters at this year's UbiComp ISWC Conference!
🖖Inspired by the intelligent doors in Star Trek, which seem to open only when someone truly intends to enter, we introduce the “spontaneous context” interaction pattern for everyday devices. Here, concrete action is spontaneously adapted based on information about the user situation that the interactors gather and interpret ad hoc.
To demonstrate the spontaneous context pattern, we implemented a "plot door": Unlike typical automatic doors that open for anyone nearby, our plot door adapts its behavior on the fly, using ad hoc sensor data such as accelerometer and gyroscope to decide if it is likely that an individual wants to enter without storing user data or requiring prior relationships.
🔑 Key insight: By considering how a human’s interaction is performed, our concept enables the ad-hoc adaptation of peer-to-peer...
...interaction between user and systems, without the need for sophisticated, infrastructure-oriented, tightly-coupled context-aware environments.
In a world with an increasing number of smart devices, the introduced concept opens the door for the employment of low-cost solutions that allow the adaptation of these interactions spontaneously in a privacy-respecting way.
👉 Read the full paper here: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/123234
Authors: Raffael Rot, Simon Mayer, and Jannis Strecker-Bischoff (@jannis)
Typical everyday physical interactors, such as switches, perform a specific static action upon actuation by a user. For such simple components, this action is independent of the immediate user situation; consideration of this situation typically involves the augmentation of the interactor with specific added interface features (e.g., long-press of a button for dimming). We introduce the "spontaneous context" interaction pattern for everyday interactors where the concrete action is spontaneously adapted based on information about the user situation that the interactors gather and interpret ad hoc. In our approach, the interactor and user hence share no prior relationship and no user data is stored, yet the interactor adapts the action at interaction time. To demonstrate the spontaneous context pattern, we implemented a "plot door": this is an automatic door that differs from classical infrared motion sensor-activated doors by opening only when it is likely that an individual wants to enter. Our plot door uses an infrared sensor that is augmented with our proposed interaction pattern and thereby spontaneously gathers and interprets accelerometer and gyroscope data from the individual to determine whether it should open or not.
Interactions Research Group