Realising aura for initiating interactions in real environments

Victor Juay, Maria Indrawan, Sea Ling

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Abstract

Information overload and spam are serious problems that plague our society today. In the advent of context aware systems and applications, these problems will inevitably continue to cause anguish among users. The problems stem primarily from the lack of user control over the interactions and services they receive. In search of a feasible solution to enable user controllable trade-offs over interactions, we study how the spatial model of interaction from the virtual environment domain addresses these interaction issues and find that recent research that uses similar concepts from the spatial model of interactions does not fully make use of the concept of Aura from the spatial model. This paper presents a modified spatial model of interactions focused on the abstract concept of Aura and tailored for implementation in real environments to resolve the interaction issues in context aware systems. We also conceptualise a system architecture to implement the modified spatial model of interaction and develop a fully functional prototype application as a proof of concept to demonstrate the model's operational feasibility.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobility Conference 2007 - The 4th Int. Conf. Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems, Mobility 2007, Incorporating the 1st Int. Symp. Computer Human Interaction in Mobile Technology, IS-CHI 2007
Pages151-158
Number of pages8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2007
Event4th International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems, Mobility 2007, Incorporating the 1st International Symposium on Computer Human Interaction in Mobile Technology, IS-CHI 2007 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 10 Sep 200712 Sep 2007

Publication series

NameMobility Conference 2007 - The 4th Int. Conf. Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems, Mobility 2007, Incorporating the 1st Int. Symp. Computer Human Interaction in Mobile Technology, IS-CHI 2007

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems, Mobility 2007, Incorporating the 1st International Symposium on Computer Human Interaction in Mobile Technology, IS-CHI 2007
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period10/09/0712/09/07

Keywords

  • aura
  • context aware environment
  • interaction management
  • mobile computing
  • spatial model of interaction
  • ubiquitous computing

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