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What is Implicit Interaction

Chapter 4
Handbook of Research on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: Trends and Perspectives
A style of human-computer interaction that does not require explicit commands from a user, i.e., a system can take appropriate actions to support a user’s primary task or related tasks autonomously. The input to such a system is usually the activity context of a user, and thus it is very natural to a user. In the implicit interaction paradigm, it is essential to consider the unobtrusiveness of the context acquisition as well as service provision mechanisms.
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Embedding Context-Awareness into a Daily Object for Improved Information Awareness: A Case Study Using a Mirror
Kaori Fujinami (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan) and Fahim Kawsar (Lancaster University, UK)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-857-5.ch004
Abstract
In this chapter, a case study on augmenting a daily object, mirror, for a contextual ambient display is presented. The mirror presents information relevant to a person who is standing and utilizing unshareable objects, e.g. a toothbrush, in front of it on the periphery of his/her field of vision. We investigated methods of interaction with the mirror by analyzing user preferences against contrastive functionalities. Experiments were conducted by a Wizard-of-Oz method and an in-situ experiment. The results showed that a short absence of the mirror function was not a big issue for the majority of participants once they were interested in presented information. The analysis also allowed us to specify requirements and further research questions in order to make an augmented mirror acceptable.
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