Author(s):

Bellotti , Victoria ; Back, Maribeth; Edwards, Keith, W.; Brinter, Rebecca, E.; Henderson, Austin ; Lopes, Cristina

Title:

Making Sense of Sensing Systems: Five Questions for Designers and Researchers

Publication:

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Changing our World, Changing Ourselves

Keywords:

attention; error handling; sensing systems

Paper Summary:

This paper presents five design challenges for ubiquitous computing applications inspired by ideas borrowed from social science. Through an analysis of human-human communication, the authors devise five design issues:

• Address: Directing communication to a system

• Attention : Establishing that the system is attending

• Action: Defining what is to be done with the system

• Alignment: Monitoring system response

• Accident: Avoiding or recovering from errors

The authors take a deeper look at each of these issues, including:

• how they are addressed in traditional GUI applications,

• issues to be addressed in sensing systems, and

• relevant ubiquitous prototypes.

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