The Internet of Things (IoT) offers nearly unlimited possibilities: Individuals are enabled to track and optimize their own life (quantified self), make use of smart health and mobility services. Organizations can implement smart maintenance and human error prevention mechanisms. However, most of IoT products and services require display-based user interaction, a lot of them are implemented in mobile applications. The interaction with apps requires heavy cognitive effort and can lead to information overload, which can result in techno-stress and techno-anxiety. A solution to avoid these “modern diseases” connected with the IoT are so-called ambient and peripheral interaction paradigms. Ambient and peripheral interaction is a way to transport information and to enable user interaction that does not require users to spend full attention on the interaction itself. The talk will illustrate possibilities, trends and challenges related to ambient and peripheral interaction in the IoT and will give and outlook on how ambient and peripheral interaction can support basic human values (e.g. sustainability) in an interconnected world.

1. Marc Busch
Ambient and Peripheral Interaction
in the Internet of Things

2. AIT – Technology Experience
Usability
User/Technology Experience
Human Factors
New Interaction/Interface Approaches
Research and Industrial Projects
206.05.2015

3. 3http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2015/01/09/the-internet-of-things
The Internet of Things
is a blessing!

4. (Almost) unlimited
possibilites
4http://dev52.dealerfire.com/break-free

5. Quantified Self
…Quantified Baby
5http://mimobaby.com/

6. Industry 4.0 & Automation
Maintenance & Human Error Prevention
6http://www.panasonicfa.com/content/maintenance-augmented-reality-
panacim%C2%AE-enterprise-edition

7. Health Services
Smart Medicine
through Big Data
7http://www.red-dot-21.com/products/gmate-smart

8. Mobility
Car to car communication
8http://www.guidetocountries.com/culture/talking-cars/

9. Unlimited possibilities = Unlimited interaction?
906.05.2015

10. Predominant paradigm = Display-based interaction
10http://blog.theninjabay.dk/2012/07/12/lcd-display-and-pfsense-part-two/

11. 11http://www.roirevolution.com/blog/2014/10/theres-an-app-for-that-google-analytics-on-the-go/

12. Displays & Apps are not a problem itself
… however they often require maximum attention from
users
12http://www.ragan.com/Main/Articles/4_attentiongrabbing_ways_to_open_a_blog_post_46034.aspx

13. 13https://learningsnippets.wordpress.com/tag/human-cognitive-architecture/

14. 14https://learningsnippets.wordpress.com/tag/human-cognitive-architecture/

15. Technostress – A modern disease
A modern disease
Inability to cope with new
technologies
Anxiety, Irritability,
Headaches, Nightmares
Cardiovascular diseases
15http://www.beobachter.ch/leben-gesundheit/psychologie/artikel/gesundheit_wenn-sich-die-angst-verselbstaendigt/

16. The Solution
Ambient
and
Peripheral
Interaction!
16http://frantisekspurny.deviantart.com/art/Ambient-light-wallpaper-188216642

17. Ambient and Peripheral Interaction
User Interfaces move from the center of attention…
17http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/shape-locative-media

18. Ambient and Peripheral Interaction
… to the periphery: Using the envíronment as a display
18http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/shape-locative-media

19. Stages of Interaction
19
Vogel and Balakrishnan, 2004

20. Datafountain
20
http://www.koert.com/work/datafountain
/

21. Supporting Office Appointments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmnwrXgWThU
2106.05.2015

22. Nabaztag Ambient Display
2206.05.2015http://infosthetics.com/archives/2005/10/nabaztag_ambient_email_display.html

23. Ambient Orb(s)
2306.05.2015

24. Sustainable Water Consumption
2406.05.2015

25. Promoting Energy Saving
25http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.369.4623&rep=rep1&type=pdf

26. Using „Everyday“ Objects as Information Representation
26Playmobil.us

27. Challenges
Information representation – how?
„At a glance“ – what is enough and what is too much?
Individual differences & preferences
2706.05.2015

28. Marc Busch
Marc.Busch@ait.ac.at
marcbusch.com
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AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
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