TY - GEN
T1 - Using actuated devices in location-aware systems
AU - Fraser, Mike
AU - Cater, Kirsten
AU - Duff, Paul
PY - 2008/4/30
Y1 - 2008/4/30
N2 - Location-aware systems have traditionally left mobility to the user through carrying, supporting and manipulating the device itself. This design choice has limited the scale and style of device to corresponding weight and form constraints. This paper presents a project introducing school children to location aware systems. We observed that it is hard to notice, physically grasp and simultaneously share these small personal devices in groups. These behaviours are partly grounded in the physical device design, but also in the location awareness model itself, which provides information 'right here' while the children are looking around and about them. These observations lead us to suggest the alternative model of pointing at locations so that they can be noticed and experienced by groups in public places. We further build this location model into the device itself by introducing actuated components from robotics to make a location-aware device called 'Limbot' that can be physically pointed. A preliminary study of the Limbot with the school children indicates rich sharing behaviours, but that user control of actuation at all points is critical to the ultimate success of our approach, and further exploration of our location model is required.
AB - Location-aware systems have traditionally left mobility to the user through carrying, supporting and manipulating the device itself. This design choice has limited the scale and style of device to corresponding weight and form constraints. This paper presents a project introducing school children to location aware systems. We observed that it is hard to notice, physically grasp and simultaneously share these small personal devices in groups. These behaviours are partly grounded in the physical device design, but also in the location awareness model itself, which provides information 'right here' while the children are looking around and about them. These observations lead us to suggest the alternative model of pointing at locations so that they can be noticed and experienced by groups in public places. We further build this location model into the device itself by introducing actuated components from robotics to make a location-aware device called 'Limbot' that can be physically pointed. A preliminary study of the Limbot with the school children indicates rich sharing behaviours, but that user control of actuation at all points is critical to the ultimate success of our approach, and further exploration of our location model is required.
KW - Actuators
KW - Human-robot interaction
KW - Location awareness
KW - Physicality
KW - Pointing
KW - Robotics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=42549112039&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1347390.1347397
DO - 10.1145/1347390.1347397
M3 - Chapter in a published conference proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:42549112039
SN - 9781605580043
T3 - TEI'08 - Second International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction - Conference Proceedings
SP - 19
EP - 26
BT - TEI'08 - Second International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction - Conference Proceedings
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction, TEI 2008
Y2 - 18 February 2008 through 20 February 2008
ER -