Are designers ready for ubiquitous computing?: a formative study

Ubiquitous computing is increasingly becoming reality, even for people outside of research. A group that will have to face the challenges of this new technology is product and industrial designers. To get a designer's view of ubiquitous computing, we demonstrated the Smart-Its ubiquitous computing prototyping platform to 16 product designers and collected their impressions during a workshop. Our results show that the way designers approach technology of designers differs from that of researchers, which indicates the need for more comprehensive workshops. Keywords Design, Smart-Its, Ubiquitous computing

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Sara Ljungblad, Tobias Skog, Lalya Gaye
• Keywords: CHI 2003, Designers Approach Technology, Human Computer Interaction, Smart-Its Ubiquitous Computing, Ubiquitous Computing