Rapid user-centred evaluation for context-aware systems

Eleanor O'Neill, David Lewis, Kris McGlinn, Simon Dobson

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Abstract

This paper describes a platform for the user-centred design and evaluation of adaptive, context-aware services in the wireless, mobile and pervasive computing markets. It focuses on evaluating the user interactions with context-aware adaptive systems while synchronising the control of the environmental context that drives adaptivity and the user's perception of that environment. The platform uses a 3D virtual reality simulation to present the environment to the user and to drive the generation of simulated environmental context. The platform thereby delivers repeatable, instrumented, context-dependent evaluations of adaptive services over a range of contexts. It aims to reduce development costs and facilitate the development of more effective, user-empowering services.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInteractive systems: design, specification, and verification
PublisherSpringer-Verlag
Pages220-233
Number of pages14
Publication statusPublished - 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
PublisherSpringer-Verlag
Volume4323

Keywords

  • user-centred design and evaluation
  • usability
  • context-aware services
  • adaptive services
  • 3D virtual environment

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