skip to main content
10.1145/2493190.2493239acmconferencesArticle/Chapter ViewAbstractPublication PagesmobilehciConference Proceedingsconference-collections
research-article

Exploring smartphone-based web user interfaces for appliances

Published: 27 August 2013 Publication History

Abstract

We describe the SAWUI architecture by which smartphones can easily show user interfaces for nearby appliances, with no modification or pre-installation of software on the phone, no reliance on cloud services or networking infrastructure, and modest additional hardware in the appliance. In contrast to appliances? physical user interfaces, which are often as simple as buttons, icons and LEDs, SAWUIs leverage smartphones? powerful UI hardware to provide personalized, self-explanatory, adaptive, and localized UIs.
To explore the opportunities created by SAWUIs, we conducted a study asking designers to redesign two appliances to include SAWUIs. Task characteristics including frequency, proximity, and complexity were used in deciding whether to place functionality on the physical UI, the SAWUI, or both. Furthermore, results illustrate how, in addition to support for accomplishing tasks, SAWUIs have the potential to enrich human experiences around appliances by increasing user autonomy and supporting better integration of appliances into users' social and personal lives.

References

[1]
Borriello, G. and Want, R. Embedded computation meets the World Wide Web. Commun. ACM 43, 5, 2000, ACM.
[2]
Brouwer-Janse, M. D., Bennett, R. W., Endo, T., van Nes, F. L., Strubbe, J. J., Gentner, D. R. Interfaces for Consumer Products: "How to Camouflage the Computer?" CHI 1992, ACM.
[3]
Brush, A. J. B, and Inkpen, K. M. Yours, mine, and ours: Sharing and use of technology in domestic environments. UbiComp 2007, ACM.
[4]
Chandra, R., Bahl, P. and Bahl, P. MultiNet: Connecting to Multiple IEEE 802.11 Networks Using a Single Wireless Card. Infocom 2004, IEEE.
[5]
Dey, A. K., Wac, K., Ferreira, D., Tassini, K., Hong, J.-H., Ramos, J. Getting closer: an empirical investigation of the proximity of users to their smart phones. UbiComp 2011.
[6]
Dixon, C., Mahajan, R., Agarwal, S., Brush, A. J., Lee, B., Saroiu, S. and Bahl, V. An Operating System for the Home. NSDI 2012, USENIX.
[7]
Harper, R. (Ed.). Inside the Smart Home. 2003, Springer.
[8]
Holmquist, L. E., Mattern, F., Schiele, B., Alahuhta, P., Beigl, M., Gellersen, H.-W. Smart-Its Friends: A Technique for Users to Easily Establish Connections between Smart Artefacts. UbiComp 2001, Springer.
[9]
iSuppli iPhone 4 Teardown, news article. Retrieved August 2012 from iSuppli at http://www.isuppli.com/Teardowns/News/Pages/iPhone-4-Carries-Bill-ofMaterials-of-187--51-According-to-iSuppli.aspx
[10]
Kindberg, T., et al. People, Places, Things: Web Presence for the Real World. MONET 7,5 2002, Kluwer.
[11]
Kranz, M., Holleis, P, Schmidt, A. Embedded interaction: Interacting with the internet of things. IEEE Internet Computing, 14(2), 46--53.
[12]
LaPlant, B., Trewin, S., Zimmermann, G., Vanderheiden, G. The universal remote console: A universal access bus for pervasive computing. Pervasive Computing, 2004.
[13]
Microchip TCP/IP Stack. Application Note AN833, Microchip.
[14]
Nichols, J., Myers, B. A., Higgins, M., Hughes, J., Harris, T. K., Rosenfeld, R., Pignol, M. Generating remote control interfaces for complex appliances. UIST '02. ACM.
[15]
Nichols, J., Myers, B. A., Harris, T. K., Rosenfeld, R., Shriver, S., Higgins, M., Hughes, J. Requirements for automatically generating multi-modal interfaces for complex appliances. IEEE Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2002.
[16]
Nichols, J., Myers, B.A., Rothrock, B. UNIFORM: Automatically generating consistent remote control user interfaces. CHI '06, ACM.
[17]
Nichols, J., Myers, B.A. Studying the Use of Handhelds to Control Smart Appliances. Proc. ICDCSW '03. IEEE.
[18]
About the Wireless Hosted Network. Retrieved August 2012 from MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/enus/library/windows/desktop/dd815243.aspx
[19]
Roduner, C., Langheinrich, M., Floerkemeier, C., Schwarzentrub, B. Operating appliances with mobile phones - Strengths and limits of a universal interaction device. Pervasive 2007, Springer.
[20]
Satyanarayanan, M. Pervasive Computing: Vision and Challenges. IEEE Personal Communications 2001.
[21]
Sheth, A., Seshan, S. and Wetherall, D. Geofencing: confining 802.11 coverage areas to physical boundaries. Pervasive 2009, Springer.
[22]
Villar, N., Scott, J., Hodges, S., Hammil, K., Miller, C.NET Gadgeteer: A platform for custom devices. Pervasive 2012, Springer.
[23]
Want, R., Pering, T., Danneels, G., Kumar, M., Sundar, M., Light, J. The Personal Server: Changing the Way We Think about Ubiquitous Computing. UbiComp 2002, Springer.
[24]
WiFi Joiner App for Android. Retrieved August 2012 from http://vickypedia.me/wifijoiner

Cited By

View all
  • (2019)Designing Motion Matching for Real-World ApplicationsProceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction10.1145/3294109.3295628(645-656)Online publication date: 17-Mar-2019
  • (2019)Analysis of Big Data of an Online Community Based on Artificial IntelligenceAdvances in Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery10.1007/978-3-030-32591-6_109(997-1004)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2019
  • (2016)TraceMatchProceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing10.1145/2971648.2971714(298-303)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2016
  • Show More Cited By

Index Terms

  1. Exploring smartphone-based web user interfaces for appliances

    Recommendations

    Comments

    Information & Contributors

    Information

    Published In

    cover image ACM Conferences
    MobileHCI '13: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
    August 2013
    662 pages
    ISBN:9781450322737
    DOI:10.1145/2493190
    Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

    Sponsors

    Publisher

    Association for Computing Machinery

    New York, NY, United States

    Publication History

    Published: 27 August 2013

    Permissions

    Request permissions for this article.

    Check for updates

    Author Tags

    1. appliances
    2. smartphones
    3. user interfaces

    Qualifiers

    • Research-article

    Conference

    MobileHCI '13
    Sponsor:

    Acceptance Rates

    MobileHCI '13 Paper Acceptance Rate 53 of 238 submissions, 22%;
    Overall Acceptance Rate 202 of 906 submissions, 22%

    Contributors

    Other Metrics

    Bibliometrics & Citations

    Bibliometrics

    Article Metrics

    • Downloads (Last 12 months)5
    • Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0
    Reflects downloads up to 20 Jan 2025

    Other Metrics

    Citations

    Cited By

    View all
    • (2019)Designing Motion Matching for Real-World ApplicationsProceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction10.1145/3294109.3295628(645-656)Online publication date: 17-Mar-2019
    • (2019)Analysis of Big Data of an Online Community Based on Artificial IntelligenceAdvances in Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery10.1007/978-3-030-32591-6_109(997-1004)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2019
    • (2016)TraceMatchProceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing10.1145/2971648.2971714(298-303)Online publication date: 12-Sep-2016
    • (2016)AmbiGazeProceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems10.1145/2901790.2901867(812-817)Online publication date: 4-Jun-2016
    • (2016)From the Internet of Things to the web of things — enabling by sensing as-a service2016 12th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT)10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2016.7880055(1-6)Online publication date: Nov-2016
    • (2015)Connecting the things to the internetProceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing10.1145/2750858.2807535(767-778)Online publication date: 7-Sep-2015
    • (2015)Buddy Thing: Browsing as a Service for the Internet of Things2015 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing10.1109/SCC.2015.26(122-129)Online publication date: Jun-2015
    • (2014)Accessibility in contextProceedings of the 16th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers & accessibility10.1145/2661334.2661372(209-216)Online publication date: 20-Oct-2014

    View Options

    Login options

    View options

    PDF

    View or Download as a PDF file.

    PDF

    eReader

    View online with eReader.

    eReader

    Media

    Figures

    Other

    Tables

    Share

    Share

    Share this Publication link

    Share on social media