Awarekit: Exploring a tangible interaction paradigm for digital calendars
2017 (English)In: CHI 2017 Extended Abstracts - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2017, p. 1877-1884Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Digital calendars are a conventional tool for planning meetings and providing information about the availability of others. In this paper, we explore an alternative tangible way of interaction with existing electronic calendaring systems. Our prototype, called AwareKit, is a tangible toolkit aimed at supplementing existing electronic calendar systems and exploits quick, fun and playful interaction. It integrates an attractive design and utilizes touch and rotation as interaction techniques to access different types of information. In this paper, we outline the design concept of AwareKit, its hardware implementation and the first usability feedback. The results of the pilot usability study showed that AwareKit is easy to use and facilitates intuitive and playful interaction.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2017. p. 1877-1884
Keywords [en]
Awareness display, Interactive calendar, Internet of things (IoT), Physical visualization, Tangible interaction
National Category
Computer and Information Sciences Human Computer Interaction
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-335659DOI: 10.1145/3027063.3053111Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85019563516OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-335659DiVA, id: diva2:1795260
Conference
2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2017, Denver, United States of America, May 6 2017 - May 11 2017
Note
Part of ISBN 9781450346566
QC 20230907
2023-09-072023-09-072025-02-18Bibliographically approved