Paper Info
Title
Interactive Spaces Towards Collaborative Structuring and Ubiquitous Presentation in Domestic Environments
Abstract
This paper analyses the use of media and material in private homes based on empirical studies in a project on designing interactive domestic environments. Based on the analyses we propose a Domestic Hypermedia infrastructure (DoHM) combining spatial, context-aware and physical hypermedia to support collaborative structuring and ubiquitous presentation of materials in private homes. With DoHM we propose establishing new relationship between digital and physical hyperspaces, folding hyperspaces into the physical space of the household. Thus we strive to combine the qualities of physical domestic materials and spaces with the flexibility and dynamics of digital hyperspaces. We propose a variety of new ubiquitous home appliances called MediaWall, MediaTable, MediaTray and MediaPort, which address these issues. INTERACTIVE SPACES Designing interactive spaces is an effort which combines the competencies of architects and computer scientists. In Center for Interactive Spaces, we take activities as the common starting point when we co-design space and technology in an iterative design process, where neither defines the other nor is taken for granted but both dimensions are manipulated and synthesized into innovative design concepts. Designing interactive technology in this perspective has a number of implications. First, where much focus in the field of domestic technologies has been on exploiting technological possibilities to support awareness and communication amongst people who are not co-located (Hutchinson et al. 2003, Mynat et al. 2003), a focus on interactivespaces as described above implies support for interaction amongst people, who are co-located. In a domestic context, this aspect becomes crucial, as we currently see an increased digitization of domestic material, e.g. photos, movies, calendars, recipes, notes, banking, messages from school etc. increasingly become digitized and thus no longer have an inherent physical form. Digital materials often reside on a personal computer, which provides single user access to materials rather than engaging multiuser experiences which are highlighted in an interactivespaces perspective. Moreover, when studying how physical domestic materials are organised in homes, the actual physical layout of the home provides an implicit structuring mechanism for these materials. Thus, a perspective of interactivespaces implies carefully considering the relationship between digital and physical spaces. In this work, we adopt a folding strategy where the digital spaces is folded into the physical space seeking to maintain the qualities of both types of spaces Addressing a domestic space moreover has a number of consequences. Historically, the workplace has undergone a similar transition of digitization as we currently witness in homes. However, the home is quite different from the workplace in many respects. Activities in the home are less task-oriented (Monk 2000); the rationalities of work in terms of production, efficiency and organization of labour do not necessarily transfer to the home (Crabtree et al. 2002). Moreover inhabitants continuously re-configure and appropriate their homes both to
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.3127/ajis.v11i2.122
Australasian Journal of Information Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
ubiquitous hypermedia,physical hypermedia,multimedia,augmented reality,interactive spaces,context awareness,domestic technology,empirical study,concept design,spatial context,production efficiency,iterative design
Journal
11
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
2
2
0.46
References 
Authors
12
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kaj Grønbæk11699204.09
Marianne Graves Petersen258952.95