The interactive balloon: sensing, actuation, and behavior in a common object
IBM Systems Journal
Squeeze me, hold me, tilt me! An exploration of manipulative user interfaces
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The origins of ubiquitous computing research at PARC in the late 1980s
IBM Systems Journal
Charting past, present, and future research in ubiquitous computing
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on human-computer interaction in the new millennium, Part 1
Sensing techniques for mobile interaction
UIST '00 Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
When Things Start to Think
Understanding and Using Context
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
HUC '00 Proceedings of the 2nd international symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing
Real-World Graphical User Interfaces
HUC '00 Proceedings of the 2nd international symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing
EasyLiving: Technologies for Intelligent Environments
HUC '00 Proceedings of the 2nd international symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing
Design and implementation of expressive footwear
IBM Systems Journal
Ambient intelligence and the development of embedded system software
Ambient intelligence
Enabling fast and effortless customisation in accelerometer based gesture interaction
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia
Accelerometer-based gesture control for a design environment
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Evaluating touching and pointing with a mobile terminal for physical browsing
Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles
Techniques for location selection on a mobile device
EATIS '07 Proceedings of the 2007 Euro American conference on Telematics and information systems
A platform for wireless networked transducers
A platform for wireless networked transducers
Towards dynamic and cooperative multi-device personal computing
The disappearing computer
Gesture interaction for small handheld devices to support multimedia applications
Journal of Mobile Multimedia
UCS'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Ubiquitous Computing Systems
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Designing, implementing and evaluating prototypes is a normal way of doing technical research. In recent years we have seen lots of research prototypes specifically designed for context awareness, future user interfaces and intelligent environment research. The problem with this type of specialised prototypes is that their lifetime is rather short and the valuable work done for them is not easily reusable. Our approach has been different as we have deliberately aimed towards a multipurpose platform that would be suitable for various ubiquitous computing related research themes. In this article we present the design and implementation of the platform that is named as SoapBox (Sensing, Operating and Activating Peripheral Box). Its main features are wired and wireless communications, in-built sensors, small size and low power consumption. We also introduce some results of research projects that have already used the platform successfully. Finally we conclude the paper with application scenarios for further work.