Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . An End-User Development Approach for Crafting Smart Interactive Experiences . . . . . . . . . 23 Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti, Maristella Matera and Antonio Piccinno
Design Recommendations for HMD-based Assembly Training Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Stefan Werrlich, Phuc-Anh Nguyen, Austino-Davis Daniel, Carlos Emilio Franco Yanez, Carolin Lorber and Gunther Notni
Designing the Fog: Towards an Intranet of Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Mathias Funk Control, Intervention, or Autonomy? Understanding the Future of Smart Home Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Jonas Auda, Sarah Faltaous and Stefan Schneegass Adaptable Utterances in Voice User Interfaces to Increase Learnability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Chelsea Myers, Anushay Furqan and Jichen Zhu Energy Efficient Thermostats for Room Level Air Conditioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Milan Jain
These are the proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Interacting with Smart Objects (SmartObjects ’18) in conjunction with CHI’18 held on April 21, 2018, in Montreal, Canada. This volume contains the ten accepted papers. Each submission was reviewed by three program committee members.
Objects that we use in our everyday life are ever-expanding their interaction capabilities and provide functionalities that go far beyond their original functionality. They feature computing capabilities and are, thus, able to capture, process and store information and interact with their environments, turning them into smart objects. Their wide range was covered by the submissions to this workshop. Smart objects know something about their users and, thus, allow for natural interaction. Natural interaction, in contrast, does not imply smartness. Smartness requires interaction with users and provides help. There are already commercialized products available that expose their properties and interaction capabilities. To enrich their potential and to lower affordances, they need to communicate to each other. Making sense out of the available data in this field is still an open research question. The overall goal should be to build an interactive ecosystem that (i) seamlessly discovers, connects and talks to its environment, (ii) is ubiquitous and (iii) allows the user to be in control.
The workshop examined these issues with regards to the following aspects:
Putting together SmartObjects ‘18 was a team effort. We would like to send out our thanks to everybody who has helped us to organize this event:
The authors, who have written and submitted their papers to the workshop. The program committee and the external reviewers, for their time and effort to write substantial and constructive review reports.
We hope that you will find this program interesting and thought-provoking and that the workshop will provide you with a valuable opportunity to share ideas with other researchers and practitioners from institutions around the world.
April 2018 Darmstadt
Marco Blumendorf Oliver Brdiczka Jingyuan Chen Aba-Sah Dadzie Boris Deruyter Niloofar Dezfuli Markus Funk Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl Sebastian Günther Alexander Kröner Kris Luyten Karola Marky German Montoro Max Mühlhäuser Florian Müller Patrick Reignier Dirk Schnelle-Walka Geert Vanderhulst Raphael Wimmer
Massimo Zancanaro
smartB, Germany Stella.ai, CA, USA TU Braunschweig, Germany The Open University, United Kingdom Philips Research, Netherlands TU Darmstadt, Germany TU Darmstadt, Germany Porsche, Germany TU Darmstadt, Germany TH Nuernberg, Germany Hasselt University, Belgium TU Darmstadt, Germany Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain TU Darmstadt, Germany TU Darmstadt, Germany Inria, France Harman International, USA Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories, Belgium University of Regensburg, Germany Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Universités de Grenoble, France TU Darmstadt, Germany TU Darmstadt, Germany
Alexandrovsky, Dmitry Ardito, Carmelo Ashbrook, Daniel Auda, Jonas Buono, Paolo Costabile, Maria Francesca Daniel, Austino-Davis Desolda, Giuseppe Döring, Tanja Faltaous, Sarah Fujimoto, Osamu Funk, Mathias Furqan, Anushay Jain, Milan Krishnasamy, Rameshnath Lanzilotti, Rosa Li, Zhiyuan Lorber, Carolin Malaka, Rainer Matera, Maristella Murauer, Nela Myers, Chelsea Nguyen, Phuc-Anh Notni, Gunther Pflanz, Nerina Piccinno, Antonio Reinschluessel, Anke V. Schneegass, Stefan Tejada, Carlos Thieme, Danny von Hassel, Cecilia Werrlich, Stefan Yanez, Carlos Emilio Franco Zhu, Jichen
Acoustic Interaction Adaptable Adaptive Adaptive System Air Conditioning Assembly Augmented Reality Collaborative Learning Context Aware Technologies Cultural Heritage Design Idioms Digital Fabrication Embodied Interaction Emerging Technology Evaluation Exhibition Sites Fault Detection Feedback Head-Mounted Displays Interaction Design Internet of Things Intervention User Interface Learnability Mobile User Experience Multimodal Feedback Open User Models Self-Guided Smart Devices Smart Home Smart Object Modelling Smart Objects Smart Thermostat 1
Smart Visit Experience Systems Design Voice User Interface 31 23 31 9 9 58 58 50 44