User interaction
Interaction, Usability and User Experience in Smart Environments
The main goal of this horizontal work package is to understand the aims and the needs of the users as well as the benefits and limitations of technology which are essential in having successful technological adoption. Our vision is that easy to use, seamless and adaptive interfaces allow fluent use of different devices and services. This will result in device interoperability to be widely accepted by the users enabling them to make use of full potential of the new technology.
This work package produces general design principles and guidelines for adaptive mobile services and smart spaces. Examples include how to abstract and represent available resources and functionalities to the user or how to move between different devices and UI modalities. Furthermore, novel innovative services and interaction technologies are developed to make use of interoperability in new ways and in new domains. The focus is on novel interaction including physical interaction (e.g., with RDIF tags), haptic feedback, speech inputs and outputs, gestures, and scalable graphical interfaces. These will be studied through user-centered research and development involving users in all phases of the project, both from the vertical work packages and our internal studies.
The work package contains four actions. Activity 1 develops evaluation methods and guidelines, focusing on user experience and user acceptance issues, as well as literacy and trust in smart spaces. Activity 2 produces novel, validated interaction techniques for multimodal multi-device applications in smart environments, and supports their use in vertical work packages with a set of guidelines and concrete software components. Activity 3 develops flexible, open and highly integrated runtime for web oriented technologies, allowing easy prototyping of DIEM applications with a rich set capabilities. Activity 4 , Precommercialization, enhances and promotes concept formation leading to better commercial utilization of the DIEM research results.
Partners
University of Tampere, Nokia, Nomovok, University of Oulu, Tampere University of Technology, VTT