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TY - GEN
T1 - Context Acquisition Based on Load Sensing
AU - Schmidt, Albrecht
AU - Strohbach, Martin
AU - Van Laerhoven, Kristof
AU - Friday, Adrian
AU - Gellersen, Hans
PY - 2002/9
Y1 - 2002/9
N2 - Load sensing is a mature and robust technology widely applied in process control. In this paper we consider the use of load sensing in everyday environments as an approach to acquisition of contextual information in ubiquitous computing applications. Since weight is an intrinsic property of all physical objects, load sensing is an intriguing concept on the physical-virtual boundary, enabling the inclusive use of arbitrary objects in ubiquitous applications. In this paper we aim to demonstrate that load sensing is a versatile source of contextual information. Using a series of illustrative experiments we show that using load sensing techniques we can obtain not just weight information, but object position and interaction events on a given surface. We describe the incorporation of load-sensing in the furniture and the floor of a living laboratory environment, and report on a number of applications that use context information derived from load sensing.
AB - Load sensing is a mature and robust technology widely applied in process control. In this paper we consider the use of load sensing in everyday environments as an approach to acquisition of contextual information in ubiquitous computing applications. Since weight is an intrinsic property of all physical objects, load sensing is an intriguing concept on the physical-virtual boundary, enabling the inclusive use of arbitrary objects in ubiquitous applications. In this paper we aim to demonstrate that load sensing is a versatile source of contextual information. Using a series of illustrative experiments we show that using load sensing techniques we can obtain not just weight information, but object position and interaction events on a given surface. We describe the incorporation of load-sensing in the furniture and the floor of a living laboratory environment, and report on a number of applications that use context information derived from load sensing.
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KW - 538 cs_uid
KW - 1
U2 - 10.1007/3-540-45809-3_26
DO - 10.1007/3-540-45809-3_26
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
VL - 2498
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 161
EP - 192
BT - Proceedings of Ubicomp 2002
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - Proceedings of Ubicomp 2002, Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 2498
Y2 - 1 September 2002
ER -