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Methods to Observe and Evaluate Interactions with Everyday Context-Aware Objects

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Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2016)

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The Smart Cities discourse intends to envision the future of cities. It is mostly orientated towards an efficient and optimal management of citys resources to enhance peoples life. Our relation with the city environment is changing since connected objects are incorporated in the city bridging the physical with the virtual world. With new opportunities of engaging citizens in new relations within the city, what we present is a multidisciplinary framework for observing those interactions. It combines different methods from Computer Sciences, Social Sciences and Design, to evaluate the assemblages in the urban space with the idea to understand the benefits of affective and empathic relations in long-term interactions with software enabled objects. While this framework will be tested in different experiments, the ultimate aim is to provide knowledge and insightful support for designing future objects for the urban space that enhance the experience of people’s everyday life.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the European Union through the GEO-C project (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014, Grant Agreement Number 642332, http://www.geo-c.eu/). Carlos Granell has been partly funded by the Ramón y Cajal Programme (grant number RYC-2014-16913).

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    Manuel Portela & Carlos Granell-Canut

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Portela, M., Granell-Canut, C. (2016). Methods to Observe and Evaluate Interactions with Everyday Context-Aware Objects. In: García, C., Caballero-Gil, P., Burmester, M., Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. UCAmI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10069. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48746-5_39

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