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Connecting Interaction with Smart Urban Objects for Individual Support in Neighborhood Participation
Abstract
Changing life in urban areas creates challenges for people who move and also for long-term inhabitants, who have to orientate themselves in new or changing environments. ICT has the potential to support people in orientating in urban neighborhoods as well as to foster participation when it comes to shaping future life in cities. We present results from a workshop on ICT in urban areas, which show the potential to connect interactive objects in public environments and to draw from community knowledge in order to support individual people in exploring their neighborhoods. In a use case we show how orientation help can be created in accordance to each person's comfort zone within the neighborhood. We conclude discussing further challenges in HCI research with focus on urban areas.
... To support seniors during such activities and motivate them to go outdoors, we propose a network of information displays in urban spaces, especially so-called micro information radiators. The aim of these radiators is to provide personalized information and hints for seniors in the urban space and thus, to improve their safety feeling during outdoor activities and expand their comfort zone [13,14]. ...
Senior citizens face challenges during activities in urban space. To help and motivate them pursuing outside activities, we propose a network of (micro and macro) information radiators to increase their feeling of safety. In this paper we first collect guidelines and relevant aspects for the design of micro information radiators. Then we summarize our own experiences from a project designing smart urban objects - particularly giving an overview of design guidelines for input and output interaction of micro information radiators.
... Knowledge work (62) → Project management: task management [265], productivity [356], project management [13], ad-hoc sharing of resources [252], job scheduling [353] → Presenting: presentation software [379], proxemicaware presenter [205], multi-display environment [201] → Searching: search [283], finding information [90] → Browsing: cross-screen browsing [164] → Other examples: note-taking [246], scientific work [148], activity-aware computing [140], police analyst station [4] Games and Installations (31) → Museum experiences: museum activities and simulations [194], museum guide and artwork [93], spatial music experience [205] → Playing and dancing: interactive dance club and music creation [10], proxemic-aware pong [205], snake game [147], Where's Waldo game [156], tower defense game [147], multi-device AR game [332], VR storyboard creation [125] → Guides: city guide [291], tourist guide [119], conference guide [334], exploring neighborhood [178] → Businesses: retail [266], restaurant menu [80] Home Computing (61) → Creativity: drawing [278], photo sorting [218], comic strips and collage [24], scrapbook [ Data Exploration (39) → Medical data: 3D medical data [66], brain scans [102], synthetic bio-design rules [108] → Scientific visualization: molecular visualization [92], astrophysics [357] → Spatial data: terrain analysis [249], geospatial disease data [210], oil and gas [306], city maps [46], interior rendering and design [319] → Financial data: financial computing [204] → Other data exploration: scatter plot [322], learning about dataset [296] Education (15) → Learning and educational games: games for training math [71], simulated classroom distributed applications [345], learning task for children [29], games for training memory [71], biology simulation [195] → Presenting and critique: class presentation [117], critique student writing [163], electronic blackboards [37] → Managing classroom activities: classroom capture [344], classroom polling [262], collaborative financial activity in groups [179] Mobile Computing (33) → Public displays and advertisements: communicating with public displays [97], interaction with display at a distance [28], tracking engagement with public displays [167], bus stop display [326], airport public display [ ...
Designing interfaces or applications that move beyond the bounds of a single device screen enables new ways to engage with digital content. Research addressing the opportunities and challenges of interactions with multiple devices in concert is of continued focus in HCI research. To inform the future research agenda of this field, we contribute an analysis and taxonomy of a corpus of 510 papers in the cross-device computing domain. For both new and experienced researchers in the field we provide: an overview, historic trends and unified terminology of cross-device research; discussion of major and under-explored application areas; mapping of enabling technologies; synthesis of key interaction techniques spanning across multiple devices; and review of common evaluation strategies. We close with a discussion of open issues. Our taxonomy aims to create a unified terminology and common understanding for researchers in order to facilitate and stimulate future cross-device research.
Titel des Teilvorhabens: Mensch-Technik-Interaktion mit smarten städtebaulichen Objekten: Entwicklung und Evaluation
Zuwendungsempfänger: Universität der Bundeswehr München
Förderzeitraum: 01.11.2015 – 31.10.2020
Förderkennzeichen: 16SV7443
During outside activities, elderly people encounter different challenges than young people. Those difficulties impede their motivation to pursue outside activities. To counter this problem from a human-computer interaction perspective, we propose a support system for seniors to improve their motivation and subjective safety while undertaking outside activities by coordinating smart urban objects. Drawing from an extensive empirical requirements analysis, we identify typical barriers experienced by seniors for which networked smart urban objects may provide assistance. We discuss a conceptual description of an activity support system: the system aggregates user profile data with information about the urban space to suggest possible activities, the elderly user chooses an activity and receives navigational assistance to increase their motivation and feeling of safety while undertaking the chosen activity. Finally, we discuss our approach regarding challenges such as user autonomy, privacy and real-world deployments, which need to be considered in future implementation and evaluation phases of the system.
Im Rahmen des Verbundprojektes UrbanLife+ verfolgen wir einen Gamification-Ansatz, nach dem das spielerische Gestaltungsmittel der Quest als Grundlage dafür verwendet wird, Senioren zur Teilhabe an ihrem urbanen Umfeld zu motivieren, indem ihnen konkrete Vorschläge für Aktivitäten gemacht werden, welche mit einem Belohnungssystem verbunden sind. Das Gesamtsystem befindet sich derzeit noch in der Entwurfsphase. Eine Analyse der Anforderungen der Zielgruppe einschließlich einer umfassenden Befragung ist im Rahmen des Gesamtprojekts erfolgt. Dieser Beitrag beschreibt den aktuellen Planungsstand des Gamification-Systems sowie die dafür unmittelbar relevanten sonstigen Projektergebnisse und diskutiert die Herangehensweise.
Der urbane Raum wird zunehmend intelligenter. So können Passanten mit Druckknöpfen an Ampelanlagen spielen, um die Rotphase zu überbrücken, Informationstafeln an Bushaltestellen zeigen Verspätungen des Busses an und WLAN-Technologie erlaubt das Erfassen der Bewegung unterschiedlicher Akteure im Raum. Die Vorteile aus dieser Vernetzung, stehen jedoch älteren Personen mit kognitiven oder motorischen Einschränkungen nicht offen. Technologien in der öffentlichen Umgebung beziehen Anforderungen älterer Personen bislang nicht ein. Ältere Personen werden durch die sich rapide ändernden sozialen und technologischen Strukturen von der Teilhabe ausgegrenzt. Wir stellen unseren Ansatz Smarter Städtebaulicher Objekte vor: Gegenstände aus der städtischen Umgebung, welche mit einem digitalen Informationsraum verbunden sind. Darunter fallen u. a. Parkbänke, die jüngere Personen durch Vibration darauf auf ältere Personen mit Bedarf an Sitzplätzen hinweisen, sowie Informationstafeln, die die Aktivitäten in der Nachbarschaft nutzergerecht aufbereiten. Anhand dessen wollen wir zeigen, wie das Gewahrsein im öffentlichen Raum auf die Belange älterer Personen erhöht werden kann.
Navigation and location technologies are continually advancing, allowing ever higher accuracies and operation under ever more challenging conditions. The development of such technologies requires the rapid evaluation of a large number of sensors and related utilization strategies. The integration of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) such as the Global Positioning System (GPS) with accelerometers, gyros, barometers, magnetometers and other sensors is allowing for novel applications, but is hindered by the difficulties to test and compare integrated solutions using multiple sensor sets. In order to achieve compatibility and flexibility in terms of multiple sensors, an advanced adaptable platform is required. This paper describes the design and testing of the NavCube, a multi-sensor navigation, location and timing platform. The system provides a research tool for pedestrian navigation, location and body motion analysis in an unobtrusive form factor that enables in situ data collections with minimal gait and posture impact. Testing and examples of applications of the NavCube are provided.
Urban areas and demography are changing, leading to an acceleration of life pace and an ageing population at the same time. In order to ensure safe mobility in urban areas for older adults, we aim to increase awareness for own abilities, potential assistance by peers and pedestrians, as well as awareness for emerging needs of older adults by implementing smart urban objects in public space. Based on research approaches on awareness in HCI, we present an example scenario of expanding older adult's comfort zones with smart urban objects and discuss potential challenges and future work in the funded project UrbanLife+.
The research goal of this study was to investigate how website design quality and website service quality affect participation behavior in the online travel community by moderating tacit knowledge and commitment.
The design of the questionnaire linked it to the invitation message on the three travel communities, of which 235 were returned completed. The finding of the study shows that an online travel community that allows quick manipulation capabilities is likely to attract its members. To succeed, online travel communities have to rethink the way in which they embrace a new art of dialog and collaboration with their members. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.