Sensible Appliances: Applying Context-awareness to Appliance Design. Kim, Woo, S., Park, Hyun, S., Lee, J., Jin, Kyu, Y., Park, H., Chung, A., Choi, S., Choi, & Sik, W. Personal Ubiquitous Comput., 8(3-4):184--191, July, 2004. 00025
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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.
@article{ kim_sensible_2004,
  title = {Sensible {Appliances}: {Applying} {Context}-awareness to {Appliance} {Design}},
  volume = {8},
  issn = {1617-4909},
  shorttitle = {Sensible {Appliances}},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00779-004-0276-9},
  doi = {10.1007/s00779-004-0276-9},
  abstract = {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.},
  number = {3-4},
  urldate = {2015-02-25TZ},
  journal = {Personal Ubiquitous Comput.},
  author = {Kim, Sung Woo and Park, Sang Hyun and Lee, JungBong and Jin, Young Kyu and Park, Hyun-Mi and Chung, Amy and Choi, SeungEok and Choi, Woo Sik},
  month = {July},
  year = {2004},
  note = {00025},
  keywords = {Context-aware computing, Design methodology, context-awareness},
  pages = {184--191}
}

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