Place-specific computing is proposed as a new approach that focuses on shaping interactions mediated by digital artifacts situated within and tailored to particular physical locations. It aims to utilize place-specific resources to enhance users' experiences of those places. The document outlines this concept and discusses pilot studies in four countries that suggest it represents a new design genre focused on how context influences usability and can become the subject of interactions. It expresses an alternative to ubiquitous technology that is not grounded in particular places.

4. Place-specific computing is suggested
as a new genre that focuses on how
we can shape interactions mediated
by digital tif t it t d
b di it l artifacts, situated iin places and
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utilizing place-specific resources to
enhance our experience of place

5. context not only shapes
usability but ideally
becomes the subject
matter of iinteraction
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design and that
quot;environmental
knowingquot; is a process
that technology may
serve and not erode

6. expresses an alternative to anytime-
anyplace sameness in computing
ubiquitous technology does not obviate
the human need for place
new technology must be culturally
grounded in “place”
what is here-and-now and the
here-and-
mediated presence of other people
and acti ities
activities

7. Location Based Services
› fi di
finding objects or people iin proximity
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› navigating to a target based on
geographicall position
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Context-aware computing
› respond to a wider range of contextual
data？

8. (1) who – user identity;
(2) what
h – iinterpretations of action;
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(3) where – geographical location;
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(4) when – current time, or the
time spent at a llocation
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(5) why – the user’s affective state
Abowd,
Abowd, G. D. & Mynatt, E. D.
Mynatt,
Charting Past, Present, and Future Research in Ubiquitous Computing

15. Environmental Structures
Place-
Place-Specific
Artefacts
Computing
People

16. shape fluent and unobtrusive
interactions mediated by digital
artefacts, situated in a place and
utilizing its specific resources, th
tili i it ifi thereby
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enhancing our experience of this place.

17. Six pilot studies
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four countries
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› Sweden
› Germany
› South Africa
› Italy

39. suggested new genre in interaction
design
Future work：shift focus from
conceptual studies towards practical
design work, prototype development
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and prototype evaluation in context