Future of Human-Building Interaction
Workshop Summaries
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Alavi, Hamed S.
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Lalanne, Denis
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Nembrini, Julien
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Churchill, Elizabeth
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Kirk, David
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Moncur, Wendy
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.3408-3414
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: In 2030, we will have a different interactive experience with our built
environments, at home, at work, and even in public urban spaces. This is
attributed to advancements in sensing and actuation systems that can integrate
into the building infrastructures, in symbiosis with the new environmental
concerns that call for new life, work, and mobility styles. This change,
whether gradual or sudden, evident or seamless, can have a remarkable impact on
our everyday experiences, and thus entails efforts to envision possible
scenarios and plan for them. We believe that buildings, as they would embody
our digital and physical interactive daily experiences, should be designed and
nurtured in a dialogue with their users at the individual as well as social
levels. This implies a responsibility of the HCI community to intervene and
involve the user in the Human-Building Interaction (HBI) design practice. We
propose bringing together expertise from the fields of human-computer
interaction, building and urban architecture, and social sciences, and provide
them with an occasion for collaboratively creating and sharing 'images' of HBI
by 2030. The goal is to uncover research opportunities and challenges that will
emerge through discussions and multi-faceted debates about the topics proposed.
SensorTune: a mobile auditory interface for DIY wireless sensor networks
Sensing
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Costanza, Enrico
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Panchard, Jacques
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Zufferey, Guillaume
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Nembrini, Julien
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Freudiger, Julien
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Huang, Jeffrey
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Hubaux, Jean-Pierre
Proceedings of ACM CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2010-04-10
v.1
p.2317-2326
Keywords: mobile hci, network deployment, sonification, user study, wireless sensor
network
© Copyright 2010 ACM
Summary: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) allow the monitoring of activity or
environmental conditions over a large area, from homes to industrial plants,
from agriculture fields to forests and glaciers. They can support a variety of
applications, from assisted living to natural disaster prevention. WSNs can,
however, be challenging to setup and maintain, reducing the potential for
real-world adoption. To address this limitation, this paper introduces
SensorTune, a novel mobile interface to support non-expert users in iteratively
setting up a WSN. SensorTune uses non-speech audio to present to its users
information regarding the connectivity of the network they are setting up,
allowing them to decide how to extend it. To simplify the interpretation of the
data presented, the system adopts the metaphor of tuning a consumer analog
radio, a very common and well known operation. A user study was conducted in
which 20 subjects setup real multi-hop networks inside a large building using a
limited number of wireless nodes. Subjects repeated the task with SensorTune
and with a comparable mobile GUI interface. Experimental results show a
statistically significant difference in the task completion time and a clear
preference of users for the auditory interface.
