Introduction to the special issue on interaction with smart objects

Authors:
Daniel Schreiber;Kris Luyten;Max Mühlhäuser;Oliver Brdiczka;Melanie Hartman
Affiliations:
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, DE;Hasselt University -- tUL -- iMinds, Diepenbeek, BE;Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, DE;Palo Alto Research Center, CA, USA;Agt Group Darmstadt, Darmstadt, DE
Venue:
ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) - Special issue on interaction with smart objects, Special section on eye gaze and conversation
Year:
2013

Citing 4
Cited 0

Augmenting kitchen appliances with a shared context using knowledge about daily events

Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
FEATURE: An ode to TomTom: sweet spots and baroque phases of interactive technology lifecycles

interactions - Pencils before pixels: a primer in hand-generated sketching
Intelligibility and accountability: human considerations in context-aware systems

Human-Computer Interaction
A Smart Kitchen Infrastructure

ISM '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Smart objects can be smart because of the information and communication technology that is added to human-made artifacts. It is not, however, the technology itself that makes them smart but rather the way in which the technology is integrated, and their smartness surfaces through how people are able to interact with these objects. Hence, the key challenge for making smart objects successful is to design usable and useful interactions with them. We list five features that can contribute to the smartness of an object, and we discuss how smart objects can help resolve the simplicity-featurism paradox. We conclude by introducing the three articles in this special issue, which dive into various aspects of smart object interaction: augmenting objects with projection, service-oriented interaction with smart objects via a mobile portal, and an analysis of input-output relations in interaction with tangible smart objects.