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Demo of a smart plant system as an exemplary smart home application supporting non-urgent notifications

Published: 29 September 2018 Publication History

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The present work is a demonstration of a smart plant system that monitors the current water level of a plant. Since related work showed that users are already overwhelmed by notifications in their daily lives, how to design smart home applications that use notifications is an important research question. To study how users experience non-urgent smart home notifications in their daily lives, we decided to use a smart plant system that notifies the users when the plant needs water as an exemplary smart home application. We developed a fully functional smart plant system for the usage in in-situ studies. Our smart plant system can notify the users either using an integrated ambient display in the plant pot or by sending notifications to the users' smartphones. Using these prototypes, we study the user experience of different strategies and locations to display non-urgent smart home notifications.

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NordiCHI '18: Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
September 2018
1002 pages
ISBN:9781450364379
DOI:10.1145/3240167
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Published: 29 September 2018

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  1. attention management
  2. internet of things
  3. notifications
  4. smart home

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NordiCHI'18: Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
September 29 - October 3, 2018
Oslo, Norway

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Overall Acceptance Rate 379 of 1,572 submissions, 24%

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  • (2021)Pervasive Smart Objects: Framework for Extending Smart-Object ServicesDistributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions10.1007/978-3-030-77015-0_8(100-121)Online publication date: 7-Jul-2021
  • (2020)Exploring Non-Urgent Smart Home Notifications using a Smart Plant SystemProceedings of the 19th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia10.1145/3428361.3428466(47-58)Online publication date: 22-Nov-2020
  • (2019)Plant shadow morphing as a peripheral displayProceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia10.1145/3365610.3368410(1-5)Online publication date: 26-Nov-2019
  • (2019)Power Consumption Analysis, Measurement, Management, and Issues: A State-of-the-Art Review of Smartphone Battery and Energy UsageIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2019.29586847(182113-182172)Online publication date: 2019

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