Sensible appliances: applying context-awareness to appliance design

✍ Scribed by SungWoo Kim; SangHyun Park; JungBong Lee; YoungKyu Jin; Hyun-mi Park; Amy Chung; SeungEok Choi; WooSik Choi

• Book ID: 106235004
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 424 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1617-4909
• DOI: 10.1007/s00779-004-0276-9

✦ Synopsis

A sensible appliance is an appliance which understands a user's situation and takes appropriate actions to provide a high-quality user experience. A sensible appliance should be able to collect and infer relevant contexts to understand the user's situation. It is important for designers to understand context-awareness and its impact on design. In this paper, we introduce what context and context-awareness are by using data from our survey on existing work in the area. Then, we present our categorization of existing appliances based on their contextualness. Finally, as a design case study of context-aware appliances, we describe our work on the Gate Reminder-a ubiquitous and context-aware reminder appliance built into a front door to remind users of things they should take with them when leaving home, and messages they should be aware of before going out.