Messaging to Place: Exploring the Design, Deployment and Adoption of Three Situated Display based Messaging systems
Speaker: Dr Keith Cheverst, Lancaster University
When: 2005-12-13 14:00:00
Venue: 78-622
Host: Dr Ralf Muhlberger
Abstract:This talk focuses on our experiences with 3 situated display based
messaging systems that support notions of 'Messaging to Place". The
three systems discussed are: Hermes@Office (a system of digital
office door displays deployed within the Lancaster University
Computing Department), SPAM (A groupware system deployed to support
staff at a residential care facility - and which was co-realised
through participatory design workshops involving members of the
support staff) and Hermes@Home (a very recent system deployed in the
homes of two researchers working away from home to support
intimacy/connectedness with home life). Each system has been
extensively used and a range of common themes have arisen at both
technical and human factors levels.
Biography:Dr Keith Cheverst is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of
Computing, Lancaster University. In the mid to late 90s, Keith's
research focused on the development of middleware services and
graphical user interface approaches to support the design and
development of distributed groupware applications capable of
adapting to the fluctuating levels of connectivity inherent in
mobile environments. He completed my PhD thesis in 1999 on the
"Development of a Group Service to Support Collaborative Mobile
Groupware". While designing and evaluating the context-aware GUIDE
system (a system developed to support tourists using mobile
technologies), he extended his area of focus to include the issues
that arise when developing interactive systems capable of adapting
to other forms of context, e.g. changes in a user's location. He has
investigated a variety of concepts relating to such context-aware
behaviour, e.g. push vs. pull, the implications of sharing context
to support social navigation and the potential of using context
history and ML based approaches to support proactive adaptation in
so called 'intelligent' environments while maintaining appropriate
levels of visibility and system transparency.
He has explored these issues within a range of application domains
(including tourism, the community care domain and the office/work
domain) and using ubiquitous as well as mobile
technologies. Currently, as part of the EPSRC funded CASIDE project
(www.caside.lancs.ac.uk) he is particularly interested in
developing, using user-centered development approaches, situated
display based systems to support coordination and notions of
community (in sensitive or semi-wild settings) that can be used (and
studied) 'in place' over an extended or longitudinal period of time.
Type: ITEE Seminar
Contact:Dr Ralf Muhlberger, seminar host (ralf@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)