Evaluating ubiquitous systems with users (Workshop summary)

Christian Kray, Lars Bo Larsen, Patrick Olivier, Margit Biemans, Arthur Van Bunningen, Mirko Fetter, Tim Jay, Vassilis Javed Khan, Gerhard Leitner, Ingrid Mulder, Jörg Müller, Thomas Plötz, Irene Lopez De Vallejo

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Abstract

Evaluating ubiquitous systems with users can be a challenge, and the goal of this workshop was to take stock of current issues and novel approaches to address this challenge. In this paper, we report on the discussions we had during several plenary and small-group sessions. We first briefly review those evaluation methods that we identified as being used in ubiquitous computing, and then discuss several issues and research questions that emerged during the discussion. These issues include: data sources used for evaluation, comparing ubiquitous systems, interdisciplinary evaluation, multi-method evaluation, factoring in context and disengaged users.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationConstructing Ambient Intelligence - AmI 2007 Workshops, Revised Papers
EditorsMax Muhlhauser, Erwin Aitenbichler, Alois Ferscha
Number of pages12
PublisherSpringer
Publication date1 Jan 2008
Pages63-74
ISBN (Print)978-3-540-85378-7
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-540-85379-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2008
EventEuropean Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2007 - Darmstadt, Germany
Duration: 7 Nov 200710 Nov 2007

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2007
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityDarmstadt
Period07/11/200710/11/2007
SeriesCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume11
ISSN1865-0929

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