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Exploring Ambient Air Quality Notifications for Smart Rooms

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Andreas Seiderer,

Elisabeth AndréAuthors Info & Claims

GoodTechs '20: Proceedings of the 6th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good

Pages 102 - 107

https://doi.org/10.1145/3411170.3411229

Published: 14 September 2020 Publication History

Abstract

Many regular meeting participants know the atmosphere of a meeting in a closed room when the air becomes stifling and uncomfortable. With increased concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), the cognitive performance of participants can also suffer as a result. Therefore, it makes sense to retrofit such meeting rooms with smarthome technology to improve the air quality. However, existing meeting rooms often do not have built-in ventilation systems. Hence, smart technology can be used to measure air quality and communicate that by ambient notifications such as ambient lighting. Actively ventilating a room is then left to the participants of a meeting. This paper reports on a user study demonstrating that the kind of unobtrusive notification from an ambient air quality display has a significant influence on response times of perceiving the information while being concentrated on the course of the meeting.

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Exploring Ambient Air Quality Notifications for Smart Rooms
1. Applied computing
  1. Life and medical sciences
    1. Consumer health
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interactive systems and tools
  2. Ubiquitous and mobile computing
    1. Empirical studies in ubiquitous and mobile computing

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GoodTechs '20: Proceedings of the 6th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good

September 2020

286 pages

ISBN:9781450375597

DOI:10.1145/3411170

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Margariti EVlachokyriakos VDurrant AKirk D(2024)Evaluating ActuAir: Building Occupants' Experiences of a Shape-Changing Air Quality DisplayProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642396(1-21)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
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Kljun MDucasse JPucihar K(2024)The Unexplored Potential of Playful Ambient Projection-Based AR to Improve Well-BeingAugmented Reality Games II10.1007/978-3-031-54475-0_8(149-184)Online publication date: 8-May-2024
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