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Identifier 000438663
Title Wizard of AmI: a system for building and enacting interactive prototypes in intelligent environments
Alternative Title Wizard of AmI: ένα σύστημα για σχεδίαση και εκτέλεση διαδραστικών πρωτοτύπων σε ευφυή περιβάλλοντα
Author Αραμπατζής, Δημήτριος Γ.
Thesis advisor Στεφανίδης, Κωνσταντίνος
Reviewer Πρατικάκης, Πολύβιος
Αντόνα, Μαργαρίτα
Abstract Intelligent Environments (IE) have attracted a lot of research interest in the recent years and are gradually becoming integral part of people's daily lives. Various environments such as classrooms, meeting rooms, living rooms and kitchens are being enriched with interactive displays, smart devices and sensors of various kinds, able to identify multiple users and their activities. As a result, the need to design and implement applications for IEs has dramatically increased. Nevertheless, unlike traditional applications, which mainly focus on a single device, interactive applications targeting IEs are expected to be distributed across various devices in the surrounding space, while numerous factors influence their behavior, such as implicit or explicit user actions, and the state of the environment (which might also be affected by user actions). These peculiarities highlight the necessity for designers to be able to evaluate the overall User Experience early in the design process, so as to identify potential shortcomings of their application. Existing interactive prototyping tools assist designers on building their applications for a single device, offering limited support towards creating distributed interfaces which can be used simultaneously through multiple devices, while they do not take advantage of the intelligent environments and their facilities (e.g. smart devices). The handful of studies addressing this issue either require users to have advanced technical knowledge (e.g. programming skills) or focus mainly in the very early stages of the design process, which eventually limits their practicality. The purpose of this Thesis is to fill this gap by introducing the 'Wizard of AmI', an online platform for desktops and mobile devices, which supports the design process of applications for IEs by enabling the creation of interactive, prototype-based, scenarios. The 'Wizard of AmI' targets designers of interactive context-sensitive (e.g. sensors, smart services) applications for Intelligent Environments, which can be used via multiple displays at the same time. Initially, through the system, the designers create the desired user scenarios by mapping a series of mockups to the environment (i.e. select where and what to be presented). Next, through a novel graph-inspired interface, they define the flow and interactivity of the scenario (i.e. when to be presented), while at the end, they can execute the scenario (a) either virtually or (b) on-site in order to assess the overall User Experience. During on-site scenario enactment, following the established ‘Wizard of Oz’ technique, the mobile companion app allows designers to control its execution flow on demand
Language English
Subject Wizard of Oz
Αλληλεπιδραστικά πρότυπα
Issue date 2021-03-26
Collection   School/Department--School of Sciences and Engineering--Department of Computer Science--Post-graduate theses
  Type of Work--Post-graduate theses
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