Sentient artefacts: acquiring user’s context through daily objects

Authors:
Kaori Fujinami;Tatsuo Nakajima
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan;Department of Computer Science, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Venue:
EUC'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing
Year:
2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe an augmentation of everyday artefact called sentient artefact. A sentient artefact is expected to capture the user’s specific context implicitly and naturally from its original usage since such an everyday artefact has inherent roles and functionalities. Therefore, a context-aware space is built incrementally using the specific contextual information. We show three types of everyday artefact augmentation, and propose a sensor selection framework that allows an artefact developer to systematically identify desirable sensors. Also, we discuss expectations and issues on the augmentation through prototyping.