Mia Lähteenmäki

• Project Manager at Path 4More, Finland

This paper reports the results of an international web-based survey on the use of field studies in the design and evaluation of interactive systems, which was conducted between December 2006 and February 2007. The results suggest that the advantages and disadvantages of field methods are generally well understood, but guidance is needed in their ap...

Contemporary wireless networks in people's homes are already enabling consumer electronics devices to communicate with each other. Standards like Universal Plug and Play are being developed for interoperability between devices from different manufacturers. For example, a digital media player device is able to display video clips from a home PC or p...

If one wants to reach the mass markets with the technologies and applications, one needs a good understanding about the needs and requirements coming from the users and other stakeholders, but also continuous evaluation and validation of the intermediate and final results. The key areas of the evaluation are two-fold: • The evaluation and validatio...

This paper presents findings from the field test of a prototype device that collects heart rate sensor data and displays it for users. The prototype was tested on a football team, including teenage players, their parents and coaches. The findings include notes on user expectations related to the technology and detailed analyses of the social intera...

This paper describes interest to developing digital services and application to the active elderly people. People, that have retired or are about to retire and do not have daily obligations to their children. These people have more free time than in earlier stage of life. They are often in good health to be able to choose their lifestyle. The user...