Ubiquitous Notification Mechanism to Provide User Awareness

Tipo de publicación: Book Chapter

Publicado en: Advances in Ergonomics in Design

Autores
  • López, Gustavo
  • Guerrero, Luis A.
  • Rebelo, Francisco
  • Soares, Marcelo

Investigadores del CITIC asociados a la publicación
Dr. Gustavo López Herrera
Dr. Luis Alberto Guerrero Blanco

Proyecto asociado a la publicación
Potenciando el awareness en trabajos colaborativos mediante la incorporación de interfaces no tradicionales como mecanismos de interacción

Palabras claves
  • Human factors
  • Ubiquitous Computing
  • User awareness
  • User experience design
  • Warning design
Resumen

Awareness could be defined as the knowledge that the user has of a particular activity, either individual or collaborative. Good awareness mechanisms provide information to the user at the right time so that s/he can know what is required for her/him to do before s/he is required to do it. Notification mechanisms are a key factor to provide awareness. Ubiquitous technologies can change the paradigm in which notifications are delivered to users. This paper describes the concept and characteristics of awareness, and how researchers have applied different notification mechanisms to provide it. With the lessons learned from 4 project implementations, we propose a service-based plug-and-play framework that models different notification mechanisms that could be used to provide user awareness.

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Ubiquitous Notification Mechanism to Provide User Awareness