ESPBoost: A Rapid Prototyping Toolkit for Helping Designers Create the Internet of Tangible Things

Sark P. Xing, Yaliang Chuang

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Although the applications of IoT are significantly developed in the past decade, most of the user interfaces are designed with the graphical or voice modality provided on another device, such as a smartphone or speaker. Researchers have started to investigate how to promote rich interactions embodied in physical IoT objects namely the Internet of Tangible Things (IoTT). However, most studies mainly focused on the explorations of tangible concepts. Due to the technical bottleneck, very few concepts were actually implemented and validated with their complete idea. There is a need for rapid prototyping toolkits to help designers easily assemble technical components to build tangible prototypes and evaluate the user experiences in real contexts. In this position paper, we present an under-development toolkit called ESPBoost. It has modular hardware featured in four aspects: connectivity, tangible input, tangible output, and power management. We explain the details of our toolkit and how it could facilitate the designers' iterative creation process. By applying the fabricated ESPBoost onto a challenging design case, we also surface ESPBoost's limitations and plan an evaluation study for investigating its efficacy. With ESPBoost, we aim to provoke designers' creations of the user experiences of IoTT without spending significant time and effort in trying to configure endless choices of electronic components.

Originele taal-2Engels
TitelProceedings of the 2021 Workshops on Computer Human Interaction in IoT Applications co-located with the International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2021) and the 13th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2021)
SubtitelDelft, Netherlands, February 17, 2021 and Eindhoven, Netherlands, June 8, 2021
UitgeverijCEUR-WS.org
Aantal pagina's4
StatusGepubliceerd - 2021
Evenement2021 Workshops on Computer Human Interaction in IoT Applications, CHIIoT 2021 - Eindhoven, Nederland
Duur: 8 jun. 2021 → …

Publicatie series

NaamCEUR Workshop Proceedings
UitgeverijCEUR-WS.org
Volume2996
ISSN van geprinte versie1613-0073

Congres

Congres2021 Workshops on Computer Human Interaction in IoT Applications, CHIIoT 2021
Land/RegioNederland
StadEindhoven
Periode8/06/21 → …

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