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External representations in ubiquitous computing design and the implications for design tools

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External representations in ubiquitous computing design and the implications for design tools
One challenge for ubiquitous computing is providing appropriate tools for professional designers, thus leading to stronger user-valued applications. Unlike many previous tool-builders’ attempts to support a specific technology, we take a designer-centered stance, asking the question: how do professional designers externalize ideas for off-the-desktop computing and how do these inform next generation design tools? We report on interviews with designers from various domains, including experience, interaction, industrial, and space designers. The study broadly reveals perceived challenges of moving into a non-traditional design medium, emphasizes the practice of storytelling for relating the context of interaction, and through two case studies, traces the use of various external representations during the design progression of ubicomp applications. Using paperprototyped “walkthroughs” centered on two common design representations (storyboards and physical simulations), we formed a...
Steven Dow, T. Scott Saponas, Yang Li, James A. La
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Type Conference
Year 2006
Where ACMDIS
Authors Steven Dow, T. Scott Saponas, Yang Li, James A. Landay
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