Sicheng Chen, Miao Chen, A. Kunz, A. Yantaç, Mathias Bergmark, A. Sundin, M. Fjeld
{"title":"SEMarbeta: mobile sketch-gesture-video remote support for car drivers","authors":"Sicheng Chen, Miao Chen, A. Kunz, A. Yantaç, Mathias Bergmark, A. Sundin, M. Fjeld","doi":"10.1145/2459236.2459249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2459236.2459249","url":null,"abstract":"Uneven knowledge distribution is often an issue in remote support systems, creating the occasional need for additional information layers that extend beyond plain videoconference and shared workspaces. This paper introduces SEMarbeta, a remote support system designed for car drivers in need of help from an office-bound professional expert. We introduce a design concept and its technical implementation using low-cost hardware and techniques inspired by augmented reality research. In this setup, the driver uses a portable Android tablet PC while the expert mechanic uses a stationary computer equipped with a video camera capturing his gestures and sketches. Hence, verbal instructions can be combined with supportive gestures and sketches added by the expert mechanic to the car's video display. To validate this concept, we carried out a user study involving two typical automotive repair tasks: checking engine oil and examining fuses. Based on these tasks and following a between-group (drivers and expert mechanics) design, we compared voice-only with additional sketch- and gesture-overlay on video screenshots measuring objective and perceived quality of help. Results indicate that sketch- and gesture-overlay can benefit remote car support in typical breakdown situations.","PeriodicalId":407457,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122456040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Device-free and device-bound activity recognition using radio signal strength","authors":"Markus Scholz, T. Riedel, Mario Hock, M. Beigl","doi":"10.1145/2459236.2459254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2459236.2459254","url":null,"abstract":"Background: We investigate direct use of 802.15.4 radio signal strength indication (RSSI) for human activity recognition when 1) a user carries a wireless node (device-bound) and when 2) a user moves in the wireless sensor net (WSN) without a WSN node (device-free). We investigate recognition feasibility in respect to network topology, subject and room geometry (door open, half, closed).\u0000 Methods: In a 2 person office room 8 wireless nodes are installed in a 3D topology. Two subjects are outfitted with a sensor node on the hip. Acceleration and RSSI are recorded while subject performs 6 different activities or room is empty. We apply machine learning for analysis and compare our results to acceleration data.\u0000 Results: 10-fold cross-validation with all nodes gives accuracies of 0.896 (device-bound), 0.894 (device-free) and 0.88 (accelerometer). Topology investigation reveals that similar accuracies may be reached with only 5 (device-bound) or 4 (device-free) selected nodes. Applying trained data from one subject to the other and vice-versa shows higher recognition difference on RSSI than on acceleration. Changing of door state has smaller effect on both systems than subject change; with least impact when door is closed.\u0000 Conclusion: 802.15.4 RSSI suited for activity recognition. 3D topology is helpful in respect to type of activities. Discrimination of subjects seems possible. Practical systems must adapt no only to long-term environmental dispersion but consider typical geometric changes. Adaptable, robust recognition models must be developed.","PeriodicalId":407457,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126806481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V. Mateevitsi, Brad A. Haggadone, J. Leigh, Brian E Kunzer, R. Kenyon
{"title":"Sensing the environment through SpiderSense","authors":"V. Mateevitsi, Brad A. Haggadone, J. Leigh, Brian E Kunzer, R. Kenyon","doi":"10.1145/2459236.2459246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2459236.2459246","url":null,"abstract":"Recent scientific advances allow the use of technology to expand the number of forms of energy that can be perceived by humans. Smart sensors can detect hazards that human sensors are unable to perceive, for example radiation. This fusing of technology to human s forms of perception enables exciting new ways of perceiving the world around us. In this paper we describe the design of SpiderSense, a wearable device that projects the wearer s near environment on the skin and allows for directional awareness of objects around him. The millions of sensory receptors that cover the skin presents opportunities for conveying alerts and messages. We discuss the challenges and considerations of designing similar wearable devices.","PeriodicalId":407457,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125297712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NeuroPlace: making sense of a place","authors":"Lulwah Al-Barrak, E. Kanjo","doi":"10.1145/2459236.2459267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2459236.2459267","url":null,"abstract":"The ability to detect mental states, whether relaxation or stressed, would be useful in categorizing places according to their impact on our brains and many other domains. Newly available, affordable and dry-electrode devices make electroencephalography headsets (EEG) feasible to use outside the lab, for example in open spaces and shopping malls. The purpose of this pervasive experimental manipulation is to analyze brain signals in order to label outdoor places according to how users perceive them with a focus on ---relaxing and ---stressful mental states. That is, when the user is experiencing tranquil brain waves or not when visiting a particular place. This paper demonstrates the potential of exploiting the temporal structure of EEG signals in making sense of outdoor places. The EEG signals induced by the place stimuli are analyzed and exploited to distinguish what we refer to as a place signature.","PeriodicalId":407457,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems","volume":"2021 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131817143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Kashihara, Hiroki Shimizu, Hiroyoshi Houchi, Masato Yoshimi, T. Yoshinaga, H. Irie
{"title":"A real-time gait improvement tool using a smartphone","authors":"H. Kashihara, Hiroki Shimizu, Hiroyoshi Houchi, Masato Yoshimi, T. Yoshinaga, H. Irie","doi":"10.1145/2459236.2459283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2459236.2459283","url":null,"abstract":"Recent handy devices are provided with various sensors and have realized a lot of functions as downsizing and speeding up of computers. Currently smartphones occupy significant positions as the multifunctional handy devices. One of the most observable feature is that the users carry the smartphone whenever leaving home. Analyzing the motion measured by such device can be useful to improve lifestyle habits. Gaits should be focused as the representative behavior of daily living, which is shown by the fact that there are a lot of exercises intended to improve gaits.","PeriodicalId":407457,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122883169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Device-free interaction in smart domestic environments","authors":"Felix Heidrich, I. Golod, P. Russell, M. Ziefle","doi":"10.1145/2459236.2459248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2459236.2459248","url":null,"abstract":"This paper contributes to the exploration of user preferences of device-free interaction with smart appliances and services in the domestic environment. We presented a prototype system for on-surface gesture control to users in a natural environment and surveyed the perceived advantages of a potentially truly ubiquitous input method. Results show a positive attitude of users towards augmenting domestic environments with such a system. By reporting the most influencing user characteristics and our experience in designing the system we want to inform developers of future systems that support multiple input devices to better understand the role of device-free input in domestic spaces.","PeriodicalId":407457,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems","volume":"444 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125764303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SmartFinger: an augmented finger as a seamless 'channel' between digital and physical objects","authors":"Shanaka Ransiri, Suranga Nanayakkara","doi":"10.1145/2459236.2459238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2459236.2459238","url":null,"abstract":"Connecting devices in the digital domain for exchanging data is an essential task in everyday life. Additionally, our physical surrounding is full of valuable visual information. However, existing approaches for transferring digital content and extracting information from physical objects require separate equipment. SmartFinger aims to create a seamless 'channel' between digital devices and physical surrounding by using a finger-worn vision based system. It is an always available and intuitive interface for 'grasping' and semantically analyzing visual content from physical objects as well as sharing media between digital devices. We hope that SmartFinger will lead to seamless digital information 'channel' among all entities with a semblance in the physical and digital worlds.","PeriodicalId":407457,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130350455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Improving activity recognition without sensor data: a comparison study of time use surveys","authors":"Marko Borazio, Kristof Van Laerhoven","doi":"10.1145/2459236.2459255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2459236.2459255","url":null,"abstract":"Wearable sensing systems, through their proximity with their user, can be used to automatically infer the wearer's activity to obtain detailed information on availability, behavioural patterns and health. For this purpose, classifiers need to be designed and evaluated with sufficient training data from these sensors and from a representative set of users, which requires starting this procedure from scratch for every new sensing system and set of activities. To alleviate this procedure and optimize classification performance, the use of time use surveys has been suggested: These large databases contain typically several days worth of detailed activity information from a large population of hundreds of thousands of participants. This paper uses a strategy first suggested by [16] that utilizes time use diaries in an activity recognition method. We offer a comparison of the aforementioned North-American data with a large European database, showing that although there are several cultural differences, certain important features are shared between both regions. By cross-validating across the 5160 households in this new data with activity episodes of 13798 individuals, especially distinctive features turn out to be time and participant's location. Additionally, we identify for 11 different activities which features are most suited to be used for later on activity recognition.","PeriodicalId":407457,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130259590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tactile distance feedback for firefighters: design and preliminary evaluation of a sensory augmentation glove","authors":"Anthony Carton, Lucy E. Dunne","doi":"10.1145/2459236.2459247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2459236.2459247","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe the design and preliminary evaluation of a vibrotactile glove for distance display in low vision search contexts. Specifically, this glove was developed for firefighting applications in which users experience compromised vision due to a combination of smoke and low ambient light levels. The glove maps an ultrasonic rangefinder to a pair of vibrating motors on the dorsal surface of the hand. Initial perceptibility testing with 15 participants showed participants were consistently able to detect the presence and absence of obstacles in a gap-detection task (93% correct detection) and to detect relative changes in the proximity of an obstacle (74% correct identification of relative position). Mapping tactile stimuli to absolute position was more challenging, with an accuracy rate of 57% (adjusted to 89% within one unit of actual position). Challenges to implementation of the concept include response time-lag, challenges of absolute judgment, and width of the sensor signal cone.","PeriodicalId":407457,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128949842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Simon Olberding, Kian Peen Yeo, Suranga Nanayakkara, Jürgen Steimle
{"title":"AugmentedForearm: exploring the design space of a display-enhanced forearm","authors":"Simon Olberding, Kian Peen Yeo, Suranga Nanayakkara, Jürgen Steimle","doi":"10.1145/2459236.2459239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2459236.2459239","url":null,"abstract":"Recent technical advances allow traditional wristwatches to be equipped with high processing power. Not only do they allow for glancing at the time, but they also allow users to interact with digital information. However, the display space is very limited. Extending the screen to cover the entire forearm is promising. It allows the display to be worn similarly to a wristwatch while providing a large display surface. In this paper we present the design space of a display-augmented forearm, focusing on two specific properties of the forearm: its hybrid nature as a private and a public display surface and the way clothing influences information display. We show a wearable prototypical implementation along with interactions that instantiate the design space: sleeve-store, sleeve-zoom, public forearm display and interactive tattoo.","PeriodicalId":407457,"journal":{"name":"International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124385534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}