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Erfgoed in het eCulturele Tijdperk – 2 december 2004

Ambient Intelligencenieuwe technologische mogelijkheden om het digitaal erfgoed te ontsluiten

Prof.dr.ir. J.H. (Berry) EggenConferentie “Erfgoed in het eCulturele Tijdperk” – 2 december 2004


Today’s Technology


Content

• Interaction technology of the future

• Design principles for intelligent

product environments

• New directions


Interaction Technology of the Future:Academic and Industrial Research

ambientintelligence

interactiveworkspaces

ubiquitouscomputing

pervasivecomputing

augmentedspaces

sentientcomputing

intelligentenvironments

awarecomputing

augmentedreality

pervasivecomputing


Ubiquitous Computingor the age of calm technology, when technologyrecedes into the background of our lives

LiveBoardDeathStarParcTab ParcPad


Pervasive Computingthe ability to access information, virtually everywhere,at any time, is transforming the way we live and work

EmotionMouseDreamSpaceTspaces - PAN MagicPointing BlueEyes


Augmented Realityestablish symbiotic relationships between humansand technology

Pick-and-Drop Augment-Able RealitySurfaces Interaction


Sentient Computingusing sensors and resource status data to maintain a model of the world which is shared between users and applications

ULS Browser Follow-Me SmartPostersInfoHopper


Pervasive Computingbringing abundant computation and communication,as pervasive and free as air,naturally into people's lives; enabling people “to do more by doing less”

N21Handy21

“situated”computing

projector

phone

camera array

microphone array

Enviro21


Carpet Glasses

happy sad

Toys TangibleMedia

KidsRoom GuardianAngel

ChangingPlaces

Jewelry


Intelligent Environments - SPOTdynamic aggregation of diverse I/O devices intoa single coherent user experience; allow typicalPC-focused activities to move off of a fixed desktopand into the environment as a whole

EasyLiving MeetingRoomLocator AwareTVSPOT


Aware Computinga complete shift from thinking about computers as extensions of the desktop to the extensions of the environment we live in

AwareHome Aging-in-Place SmartCarpet CyberGuideDomiscilia


Ambient Intelligenceelectronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people

CAMPHomeLab WWICE HomeRadio Phenom SmartMirror


Interaction Technology of the Future

Many invisible distributed devices throughoutthe environment,

Embedded

that are sensitive to your presence,Aware

that support intuitive interaction,Natural

that can be tailored towards your needs andcan recognize you,

Personal

that can change in response to you and yourenvironment,

Adaptive

and anticipate your desires as far as possiblewithout conscious mediation.

Anticipatory


Design principles for intelligentproduct environments

• Enriched experiences – beyond utility & usability

• Design for personal experiences (not: of)

• Fit rhythms, patterns, and cycles of everyday life

• Smooth transitions from subliminal awareness

(background) to direct interaction (foreground)

• Emergent culture of ‘smart’ artefacts that

intelligently facilitate and shape relationships of

people with their environments


New directions:multimodal interaction – context-aware computing

People perspective:

• broaden bandwidth of user-system interaction

• bring naturalness to user-system interaction bycapitalizing on everyday human communication skills

Product (or system) perspective:

• rich input from environment necessary for trulyintelligent (i.e. meaningfull and appropriate) behaviour

• multimodal output to communicate embedded potentialfor possible actions


New directions:tangible computing – embodied interaction

• embody mechanisms for interactive control inphysical representations

• interacting through technology instead ofacting on technology, orfrom ‘device control’ to enhanced and new‘interactive experiences’ with a social dimension

• ‘smart’ and active tangibles that deliver systemfunctionality that goes beyond utility and usability byinspiring, challenging, exciting and affecting people


New directions:intelligent behaviour – decentralized systems

• several ‘smart’ objects linked into a network givingrise to emergent functionality

• everyday objects teaming up with people to createa desired experience


New directions:user-centered design – ethnomethodology

• user-centered-design: match technologicalpossibilities to people’s needs, abilities and desires

• social and cultural aspects of intelligent productenvironments should be explicitely taken into account

• ethnomethodology: study of common-sense routinesused by people to manage and organise everydaybehaviour


Conclusions

a sound understanding of everyday

interactions is key to the successful application and use

of technology in the future1

2what value can be added to a product through

communication with the environment?


Thank you for your attention !

Questions?


Contact:Berry Eggen

User Centered Engineering Research GroupTechnische Universiteit Eindhoven/ Department of Industrial Design

Phone : +31 40 247 5227E-mail : [email protected]