Making sense of sensing systems: five questions for designers and researchers

By Victoria Bellotti, Maribeth Back, W. Keith Edwards, Rebecca E. Grinter, A. Henderson, Cristina V. Lopes. 2002

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Subfields: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Human-Computer Interaction

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Can you see me now? (2006, background): “Bellotti et al. [2002] have argued that in order to be understood and controlled, context aware computing systems will need to reveal their properties to users, leading to their five questions for the designers of sensing systems.”
Designing the spectator experience (2005, background): “This discussion is closely related to Bellotti et al’s framework for the design of sensing-based interfaces in which they pose key challenges for interface designers including “how to disambiguate signal-to-noise” and “how to not address the system” [3].”
Principles of Smart Home Control (2006, background): “Interestingly, expanding system capabilities can easily overstep some invisible boundary, making families feel at the mercy of, instead of in control of that technology [1][5][6][21][30].”
Trends and Trajectories for Explainable, Accountable and Intelligible Systems: An HCI Research Agenda (2018, background): “Researchers have proposed conceptual frameworks to help address these challenges, such as seamful design [23], design questions to understand and control sensing systems drawn from the social sciences [14], and computational Reflection and abstraction [51].”
Personal privacy through understanding and action: five pitfalls for designers (2004, background): “activities [22], but by distributing and concealing displays and sensors, it complicates interaction [23].”
Crossing the bridge over Norman's Gulf of Execution: revealing feedforward's true identity (2013, background): “[2] argue that, unlike designers of GUI interfaces, designers of “sensing systems” – which include context-aware systems, gestural interfaces, tangible interaction and post-WIMP user interfaces [26] in general – have few pre-packaged answers available to solve basic interaction design challenges.”
Seven HCI Grand Challenges (2019, neutral): “…objects and systems include how can users successfully address a specific sys-tem, how does the system acquire the appropriate context for a given command, and how can fundamental design principles – such as feedback and recovery from error – be effectively applied (Bellotti et al., 2002).”
Reality-based interaction: a framework for post-WIMP interfaces (2008, background): “Some work has focused more generally on new issues that are not present in interactions with traditional WIMP interfaces [8, 9, 29].”