Engineering intuitive and self-explanatory smart products
Erwin Aitenbichler, Fernando Lyardet, Gerhard Austaller, Jussi Kangasharju, Max Mühlhäuser · 2007
One of the main challenges in ubiquitous computing is making users interact with computing appliances in an easy and natural manner. In this paper we discuss how to turn ordinary devices into Smart Products that are more intuitive to use and are self-explanatory. We present a general architecture and a distributed runtime environment for building such Smart Products and discuss a number of user interaction issues. As an example, we describe our smart coffee machine and its validation through systematic user testing.