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Designing the Expressive Point Lights to Enhance User's Situated Awareness of Smart Systems

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DIS '17 Companion: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems

Pages 333 - 336

https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079187

Published: 10 June 2017 Publication History

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Digital devices and intelligent systems are becoming popular in the world. However, they seldom provide sufficient communications to help users have situated awareness of the surrounding status. In this study, we explored the expressiveness designs with the point lights embedded on ubiquitous devices. Extending from related works, we demonstrated how could designers develop different light patterns and compose them with performative arrangements to convey informative clues about what is happening within the system. This could increase the user's situated awareness and guide them to decide how to respond without overburdening.

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DIS '17 Companion: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems

June 2017

424 pages

ISBN:9781450349918

DOI:10.1145/3064857

General Chair:
Oli Mival
Edinburgh Napier University, UK
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Edinburgh Napier University, UK
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Peter Dalsgaard
Aarhus University, Denmark

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