IoT communicator: A physical interface for expressing situational info of an IoT system

Yaliang Chuang

doi:10.1145/3393914.3397096

IoT communicator: A physical interface for expressing situational info of an IoT system

Yaliang Chuang

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Abstract

The Internet of Things and smart products are becoming ubiquitous in people's everyday lives. However, they rarely provide situational information to facilitate direct interactions. Users often need to check mobile devices to know the system's status. To improve user experience, we developed a communicator component that could be attached to any IoT devices. It consists of a low-cost LED and speaker. We applied Disney's animation principles to design light behaviors and musical soundscapes to convey meaningful messages. The result of our user study showed that when only the lights were provided, most users could explain the system's intention correctly. With the acoustic accompaniments, participants could better perceive the presence of devices. In this adjunct paper, we summarize our research and describe the demonstration settings for the conference. The details of the study could be found in the full paper.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS 2020 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Pages	369-372
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450379878
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3393914.3397096
Publication status	Published - 6 Jul 2020
Event	2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020: DIS'20 - Netherlands, Eindhoven, Netherlands Duration: 6 Jul 2020 → 10 Jul 2020 Conference number: DIS'20

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Conference	2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020
Abbreviated title	DIS '20
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Eindhoven
Period	6/07/20 → 10/07/20

Funding

I want to thank Ya-Han Lee and Yoga Liu for helping design the prototypes. The work is supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan (MOST 108-2633-E-002-001), National Taiwan University (NTU-108L104039), and Intel Corporation.

Funders	Funder number
National Taiwan University	NTU-108L104039

Keywords

Direct interaction
Expressivity
Internet of things
Semantic expressiveness
Situation awareness

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Chuang, Y 2020, IoT communicator: A physical interface for expressing situational info of an IoT system. in DIS 2020 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., pp. 369-372, 2020 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2020, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 6/07/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3393914.3397096

IoT communicator: A physical interface for expressing situational info of an IoT system. / Chuang, Yaliang.
DIS 2020 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2020. p. 369-372.

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