CAMP: Supporting End-User Programming of Ubicomp Environments
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project summary

As the trend towards technology-enriched home environments progresses, the need to enable users to create applications to suit their own lives increases. Existing ubicomp end-user programming interfaces often approach application creation from a developer's perspective, focusing on devices and their interactions, rather than users' goals or tasks. This research examines how users conceptualize ubiquitous computing applications for the home enviroment. CAMP (Capture and Access Magnetic Poetry) is a system that enables end-user programming for smart home environments based on a magnetic poetry metaphor. The simple interface allows users to create applications based on their natural conceptual models of capture applications.

publications

  • Truong, K. N., Huang, E. M., Abowd, G. D. (2004). "CAMP: A Magnetic Poetry Interface for End-User Programming of Capture Applications for the Home" To appear in the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2004). Nottingham, UK. (pdf)

  • Truong, K. N., Huang, E. M., Stevens, M. M., Abowd, G. D. (2004). "How Do Users Think About Ubiquitous Computing?" In the Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004). Vienna, Austria.

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