The impact of pre-patterns on the design of digital home applications

  • Authors:
  • T. Scott Saponas;Madhu K. Prabaker;Gregory D. Abowd;James A. Landay

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Washington, Seattle, WA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA, and Intel Research Seattle, Seattle, WA

  • Venue:
  • DIS '06 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Recent research suggests design pre-patterns, structured collections of evidence-based research and design knowledge, provide a useful resource for design activities in emerging application domains. This paper extends previous research by exploring the impact of pre-patterns and tools to support pre-pattern exploration for the domain of ubiquitous computing in the home. We conducted an empirical study of 44 designers engaged in a two hour concentrated brainstorming and design task for the home of the future. Our results show pre-patterns are an easily adopted resource for designers that can impact even the earliest of design activities. We also provide insights for future development of pre-patterns based on designer feedback.