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Deriving design guidelines for ambient light systems

Authors:

Andrii Matviienko,

Maria Rauschenberger,

Janko Timmermann,

Jutta Fortmann,

Andreas Löcken,

Christoph Trappe,

Susanne BollAuthors Info & Claims

MUM '15: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

Pages 267 - 277

https://doi.org/10.1145/2836041.2836069

Published: 30 November 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Recent interest in the development of ambient light systems has initialized a new research area, where the number of ambient light systems is expected to increase in the next years. To support the development of future ambient light systems, we need clear, explicit, and structured design guidelines. In this paper we present an evaluation of light patterns in a controlled laboratory study with two complementary parts. In the first part, our aim was to reveal and analyze light patterns that encode different types of everyday information. In the second part, we verified the results from the first part by asking another group of participants about their understanding of information encoded with light. Together, our results allowed us to establish light patterns and guidelines for building new ambient light systems and applications in the future.

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Deriving design guidelines for ambient light systems
1. Human-centered computing
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MUM '15: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

November 2015

442 pages

ISBN:9781450336055

DOI:10.1145/2836041

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University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg, Austria
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University of Lapland
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University of Ulm
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