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“Playing with the Bits” User-Configuration of Ubiquitous Domestic Environments

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UbiComp 2003: Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2003)

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This paper presents the development of a user-oriented framework to support the user reconfiguration of ubiquitous domestic environments. We present a lightweight component model that allows a range of devices to be readily interconnected and an editor to support users in doing this. The editor discovers available ubiquitous components and presents these to users as jigsaw pieces that can be dynamically recombined. The developed editor allows users to assemble lightweight sensors, devices such as displays and larger applications in order to meet their particular needs.

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  1. SICS, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Box 1623, SE-164 29, Kista, Sweden

    Jan Humble, Karl-Petter Åkesson & Pär Hansson

  2. MRL Lab, Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG8 1BB, UK

    Andy Crabtree, Terry Hemmings, Boriana Koleva & Tom Rodden

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  1. Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave, PA 15213-3891, Pittsburgh, USA

    Anind K. Dey

  2. Pervasive Computing and User Interface Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

    Albrecht Schmidt

  3. Intel Research Seattle, 1100 NE 45th St., 6th Floor, 98105, Seattle, WA, USA

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Humble, J. et al. (2003). “Playing with the Bits” User-Configuration of Ubiquitous Domestic Environments. In: Dey, A.K., Schmidt, A., McCarthy, J.F. (eds) UbiComp 2003: Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2864. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39653-6_20

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