Final published version
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
}
TY - GEN
T1 - ActivitySpace
T2 - managing device ecologies in an activity-centric configuration space
AU - Houben, Steven
AU - Tell, Paolo
AU - Bardram, Jakob
PY - 2014/11/16
Y1 - 2014/11/16
N2 - Mobile devices have become an intrinsic part of people's everyday life. They are multifunctional devices providing ubiquitous access to many different sources of information. Together with traditional personal computers, these devices form a device ecology that provides access to an overlapping information space. Previous studies have shown that users encounter a number of fundamental problems when interacting with these device ecologies, such as lack of transparency, control, intelligibility and context. To mitigate these problems, we introduce ActivitySpace: an activity-centric configuration space that enables the user to integrate and work across several devices by utilizing the space between the devices. This paper presents the conceptual background and design of ActivitySpace and reports on a study with nine participants. Our study shows that ActivitySpace helps users to easily man-age devices and their allocated resources while also exposing a number of usage patterns.
AB - Mobile devices have become an intrinsic part of people's everyday life. They are multifunctional devices providing ubiquitous access to many different sources of information. Together with traditional personal computers, these devices form a device ecology that provides access to an overlapping information space. Previous studies have shown that users encounter a number of fundamental problems when interacting with these device ecologies, such as lack of transparency, control, intelligibility and context. To mitigate these problems, we introduce ActivitySpace: an activity-centric configuration space that enables the user to integrate and work across several devices by utilizing the space between the devices. This paper presents the conceptual background and design of ActivitySpace and reports on a study with nine participants. Our study shows that ActivitySpace helps users to easily man-age devices and their allocated resources while also exposing a number of usage patterns.
KW - Activity Configuration
KW - Activity-Centric Computing
KW - Configuration Space
KW - Configuration Work
U2 - 10.1145/2669485.2669493
DO - 10.1145/2669485.2669493
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781450325875
SP - 119
EP - 128
BT - ITS '14 Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
PB - ACM
CY - New York
ER -