Ambient Information Systems

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Ambient Information Systems

• Eric Betts

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Overview

• Definition
• Heuristics
• Patterns of Design
• References

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Definition

• Oh Please, it was in the assigned reading
• If you don't like it, make up your own

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Heuristics

• Criteria
• BusMobile
• Daylight Lamp
• CareNet Display

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Heuristic Criteria

• Based on Jakob Nielson's heuristics
• Removed vague and inapplicable topics
• Added new topics more specific to AIS
• Same number of evaluators identified higher
  percentage of problems than with Nielson's

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BusMobile

• Design
• Results

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Daylight Lamp

• Design
• Results

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CareNet Display

• Design
• Results
• In Situ(42-313)
• vs Heuristic Evaluation(8)

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Patterns of Design
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Uselessly complicated graph
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Symbolic Sculptural Display

• Quintessential Ambient Information System
• Ambient Orb
• Low data
• High pretty factor

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Multiple Information Consolidator

• Kimura (ick)
• MyYahoo!/Google Personal Home Page

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Information Monitor Display

• BusMobile
• Scope

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High-Throughput Textual Display

• Key Textual (or iconic)
• MyYahoo!
• Apple Dashboard
• Google Personalized Homepage

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References

• 1 Mark Altosaar, Roel Vertegaal, Changuk Sohn,
  and Daniel Cheng. Auraorb social notification
  appliance. In CHI 06 CHI 06 extended abstracts
  on Human factors in computing systems, pages
  381386, New York, NY, USA, 2006. ACM Press.
• 2 Luke Barrington, Michael J. Lyons, Dominique
  Diegmann, and Shinji Abe. Ambient display using
  musical effects. In IUI 06 Proceedings of the
  11th international conference on Intelligent user
  interfaces, pages 372374, New York, NY, USA,
  2006. ACM Press.
• 3 Sunny Consolvo and Jeffrey Towle. Evaluating
  an ambient display for the home. In CHI 05 CHI
  05 extended abstracts on Human factors in
  computing systems, pages 13041307, New York, NY,
  USA, 2005. ACM Press.
• 4 Andrew Dahley, Craig Wisneski, and Hiroshi
  Ishii. Water lamp and pinwheels ambient
  projection of digital information into
  architectural space. In CHI 98 CHI 98
  conference summary on Human factors in computing
  systems, pages 269270, New York, NY, USA, 1998.
  ACM Press.
• 5 Milena Droumeva and Ron Wakkary. Sound
  intensity gradients in an ambient intelligence
  audio display. In CHI 06 CHI 06 extended
  abstracts on Human factors in computing systems,
  pages 724729, New York, NY, USA, 2006. ACM
  Press.
• 6 Anton Gustafsson and Magnus Gyllensw228rd.
  The power-aware cord energy awareness through
  ambient information display. In CHI 05 CHI 05
  extended abstracts on Human factors in computing
  systems, pages 14231426, New York, NY, USA,
  2005. ACM Press.
• 7 Jeremy M. Heiner, Scott E. Hudson, and
  Kenichiro Tanaka. The information percolator
  ambient information display in a decorative
  object. In UIST 99 Proceedings of the 12th
  annual ACM symposium on User interface software
  and technology, pages 141148, New York, NY, USA,
  1999. ACM Press.
• 8 Hiroshi Ishii, Craig Wisneski, Scott Brave,
  Andrew Dahley, Matt Gorbet, Brygg Ullmer, and
  Paul Yarin. ambientroom integrating ambient
  media with architectural space. In CHI 98 CHI
  98 conference summary on Human factors in
  computing systems, pages 173174, New York, NY,
  USA, 1998. ACM Press.
• 9 Nassim Jafarinaimi, Jodi Forlizzi, Amy Hurst,
  and John Zimmerman. Breakaway an ambient display
  designed to change human behavior. In CHI 05
  CHI 05 extended abstracts on Human factors in
  computing systems, pages 19451948, New York, NY,
  USA, 2005. ACM Press.
• 10 Jennifer Mankoff, Anind K. Dey, Gary Hsieh,
  Julie Kientz, Scott Lederer, and Morgan Ames.
  Heuristic evaluation of ambient displays. In CHI
  03 Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on
  Human factors in computing systems, pages
  169176, New York, NY, USA, 2003. ACM Press.

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References cont'd

• 11 Andrew Vande Moere, Mitchell Page, Sze Wai
  Carmen Lau, Helena Cauchi, and Matthew Tracey.
  Hubscape ambient display as physical space. In
  IE2005 Proceedings of the second Australasian
  conference on Interactive entertainment, pages
  247247, Sydney, Australia, Australia, 2005.
  Creativity Cognition Studios Press.
• 12 M229rten Pettersson. Watercalls an
  ambient call queue for cooperation between
  emergency service centres. Personal Ubiquitous
  Comput., 8(3-4)192199, 2004. 13 Zachary
  Pousman and John Stasko. A taxonomy of ambient
  information systems four patterns of design. In
  AVI 06 Proceedings of the working conference on
  Advanced visual interfaces, pages 6774, New
  York, NY, USA, 2006. ACM Press.
• 14 Albrecht Schmidt, Jonna H228kkil228,
  Richard Atterer, Enrico Rukzio, and Paul Holleis.
  Utilizing mobile phones as ambient information
  displays. In CHI 06 CHI 06 extended abstracts
  on Human factors in computing systems, pages
  12951300, New York, NY, USA, 2006. ACM Press.
• 15 Amanda Williams, Shelly Farnham, and Scott
  Counts. Exploring wearable ambient displays for
  social awareness. In CHI 06 CHI 06 extended
  abstracts on Human factors in computing systems,
  pages 15291534, New York, NY, USA, 2006. ACM
  Press.
• Obviously there are more than just these 15...i'm
  just too lazy to include them, for example,
  kimura is described in a paper that isn't listed
  here. Changes are, no one can ready this anyways