HackSpace
Song Xue, Eduardo Araújo de Oliveira, Michael Kirley · 2016
The increasing number of interactive digital artifacts, capable of communicating with each other, have created a situation where software applications no longer need to be limited by the physical boundaries of a single artifact. In order to take advantage of the potential of this situation, we introduce a platform that aims to enable and support people to design and/or customise ubiquitous computing interactions among available heterogeneous connected artifacts. The platform will help users understanding and designing multi-artifact systems that are more than the sum of its individual parts. We describe the initial evaluation and validation of the proposed platform, discuss the artifact ecosystem thinking and identify implications for future work.