Print Email Facebook Twitter Ubi-designer: A web-based toolkit for configuring and field-testing UbiComp prototypes Title Ubi-designer: A web-based toolkit for configuring and field-testing UbiComp prototypes Author Vastenburg, M.H. Fjalldal, H. Van der Mast, C. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Industrial Design Date 2009-06-09 Abstract Technology is now available for creating affordable sensor networks and infrastructures for ubiquitous computing environments. In the area of ambient assisted living, context-awareness is considered to be a key factor towards creating acceptable solutions that support elderly people in living independently in their homes as long as possible. Unfortunately, at the present state of technology, the design of context-aware products and services requires substantial technical knowledge. Consequently, product designers are often dependent on engineers for implementing prototypes and consequently prototyping their design concepts is a costly and time-consuming process. This paper presents a web-based toolkit that supports product designers in prototyping and configuring interactive context-aware services in multiple homes. The toolkit has been designed and tested in close collaboration with interaction designers. Using the toolkit, designers can make fast design iterations and eventually lower development cost. Subject Ubiquitous computingContext-aware products and servicesDesignToolkitsPrototyping To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:941fa887-3b09-446e-82bc-837b6259508e Publisher ACM ISBN 9781605584096 Source PETRA '09, Corfu, Greece, June 09-13, 2009 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type book chapter Rights (c) 2009 Vastenburg, M.H.; Fjalldal, H.; Van der Mast, C. Files PDF PETRAubidesignercameraready.pdf 1021.59 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:941fa887-3b09-446e-82bc-837b6259508e/datastream/OBJ/view