An Architecturally Situated Approach to Place-based Mobile Interaction Design
Mikael Wiberg · 2005
Abstract. Today we can witness a trend within the area of CSCW towards design of smart environments, ubiquitous information landscapes, and location-based services. However, although all these efforts made concerns the blending of design of our physical surrounding with information technology and although we have learned from the field of environmental psychology that places shape human behavior there has so far been few attempts made to explore the role of physical places in the shaping of everyday social interaction for the purpose of identifying implications for mobile and ubiquitous interaction design. In this workshop paper we present the ArchITechtum project in which we have approached this issue by taking on an architecturally situated approach to inform interaction design “in the wild”. The paper presents our project and the method applied followed by some preliminary results and a discussion of its implications for mobile interaction design.