Users want simple control over device selection

Authors:
Jan M. V. Misker;Jasper Lindenberg;Mark A. Neerincx
Affiliations:
Delft University of Technology, CD, Delft, The Netherlands;TNO Human Factors, Soesterberg, The Netherlands;Delft University of Technology, CD, Delft, The Netherlands
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2005 joint conference on Smart objects and ambient intelligence: innovative context-aware services: usages and technologies
Year:
2005

Citing 7
Cited 1

That one there! Pointing to establish device identity

Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
InfoPoint: A Device that Provides a Uniform User Interface to Allow Appliances to Work Together over a Network

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Smart-Its Friends: A Technique for Users to Easily Establish Connections between Smart Artefacts

UbiComp '01 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Lost in ambient intelligence?

CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Device Ensembles

Computer
Designing Smart Artifacts for Smart Environments

Computer
Improving service matching and selection in ubiquitous computing environments: a user study

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

The smart home controller on your wrist

Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

When users want to combine various resources in an ambient intelligent environment in an ad hoc manner, they need to be able to identify and select these resources. We conducted an experiment to study various user interaction styles for combining input and output devices in an ambient intelligent environment. The results show that the test subjects prefer to press a designated button on a device to select it. They least prefer an automatic selection. The main conclusion is that our subjects are willing to spend a bit of time and effort in order to gain control over their environment. This supports the claim that users acting in ambient intelligent environments should always be kept in the loop; systems should take care not to alienate their users when making decisions for them.