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SMART-ITS FRIENDS
In Smart-Its Friends, we explore the possibilities for novel interaction
techniques with Smart-Its augmented artifacts. Our concern with the Friends
technique is how qualitative relations and more selective connections can
be established between smart artifacts, and how users can retain control
over artifact interconnection. Context proximity is used for selective artifact
communication, taking local context conditions for matchmaking among multiple
artifacts. We suggest that this technique can empower users with simple
but effective means to impose the same context on a number of artifacts.To investigate this, we implemented Smart-Its Friends, devices that become connected when a user holds them together and shakes them. To illustrate the idea for the 2001 Disappearing Computer Jamboree, user experience sketches were designed and presented as video scenarios (below). The technique was further developed for a specific use context in the restaurant scenarios.
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project team: Friedemann Mattern and Bernt Schiele (ETH Zurich), Ramia Mazé (Interactive Institute), Hans-W. Gellersen (Lancaster University), Michael Beigl (TecO), Lars Erik Holmquist (Viktoria Institute), Petteri Alahuhta (VTT)