People Watcher: an app to assist in recording an analyzing spatial behavior of ubiquitous interaction technologies

Dalton, Nick, Dalton, Ruth and Hoelscher, Christoph (2013) People Watcher: an app to assist in recording an analyzing spatial behavior of ubiquitous interaction technologies. In: The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 27 April- 2 May 2013, Paris, France.

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Abstract

In this paper we argue that interfaces embedded in the world, one of the core objectives of ubiquitous computing, require interaction designers and researchers to have a stronger understanding of the environment as an aspect of the interaction process. We suggest that the interaction community needs new tools to accurately record and, as importantly, analyze interaction in space. We present one solution: People Watcher, a freely downloadable, iPad Application, specifically designed to address the ‘usability in space’ issues. The paper reports a case study of the software’s use. We go on to encourage researchers to adopt this tool as part of the wider process of understanding the effect of the spatial context in interaction design.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	experiment, tools, space, behavior, ubicomp, software
Subjects:	G400 Computer Science
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Architecture and Built Environment
Depositing User:	Ruth Dalton
Date Deposited:	24 Sep 2012 16:55
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2019 22:55
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/9149

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