Sensing Opportunities for Physical Interaction

Abstract: Today's technology offers a wide variety of sensors. Although many sensing applications have been produced, there is no support for the design of applications offering physical interaction. In order to make a step towards such a design framework this paper analyzes different means of sensing of humans and human activity. In particular we identify six sensing goals, referred to dimensions of sensing: ID (1), Object Use (2), Location (3), Bio Signs/Emotions (4), Activity (5) and Interaction among humans (6). Those dimensions together with different sensor placements are used to review and analyze ubiquitous computing research related to physical interaction and sensing. The final discussion draws conclusions from this analysis with respect to appropriateness of sensors and sensor placement for different sensing dimensions.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{sensingoppi03,
  title =        {{Sensing Opportunities for Physical Interaction}},
  author =       {Florian Michahelles and Bernt Schiele},
  year =         {2003},
  booktitle =    {Physical Interaction 2003 Workshop on Real World User Interfaces at MobileHCI03},
  address =      {Udine, Italy},
  month = {September}
}