Designing for the invisible: user-centered design of infrastructure awareness systems

Juan David Hincapie Ramos, Aurélien Tabard, Jakob Bardram

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    Abstract

    Infrastructure awareness systems reveal invisible aspects of infrastructures to their existing or potential users. Designing such systems is challenging as it requires making visible the hidden activity of infrastructures while providing information of interest to the users. To address this challenge we introduce the AMC technique (for Awareness Model Cards). This technique relies conceptually on awareness model's concepts of nimbus and focus. The main objective is to match the users' interests to the information the infrastructure awareness systems can provide, through the use of card matching. This technique provides three benefits: 1) evaluate how relevant is the information displayed by infrastructure awareness systems; 2) identify which of users' interests infrastructure awareness systems do not take into account; 3) identify elements of re-design in the infrastructures themselves, so to improve their adoption.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
    Number of pages4
    PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
    Publication date18 Aug 2010
    Pages302-305
    ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-0103-9
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 18 Aug 2010
    EventDIS 2010 - design as an integrated activity - Århus, Denmark
    Duration: 16 Aug 201020 Aug 2010

    Conference

    ConferenceDIS 2010 - design as an integrated activity
    Country/TerritoryDenmark
    CityÅrhus
    Period16/08/201020/08/2010

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