Sampling UX

Name Javed-Vasileios Khan
Advisor Panos Markopoulos
Website http://www.awareness.id.tue.nl/

The project (started November 1, 2004) shall investigate a novel type of technology that we call Ambient Awareness. This concept integrates aspects of Ambient Intelligence into Awareness Systems, with the aim to support informal and lightweight social communication.

Awareness Systems are computer mediated communication systems that help people maintain a peripheral awareness of others. We focus on connecting households with mobile individuals to help people stay in touch with close friends and family.

The project shall investigate Ambient Awareness, which comprises of two elements:

• Automatic Capture of Awareness Information. A sensing environment can semi-automatically construct a model and an AV record of residents’ activities.
• Pervasive Awareness. Mobile devices entering an aware environment may “negotiate” awareness information exchange with this environment. The environment may compile a model of context from information it takes from multiple devices; conversely each device may obtain awareness information from the environment.