Proactive Instructions for Furniture Assembly, Stavros Antifakos, Florian Michahelles and Bernt Schiele, To Appear: In The Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp 2002, Göteborg, Sweden, September 2002. [short, extended, Video]

Abstract: Tennenhouse [1] coined the term proactive computing where humans get out of the interaction loop and may be serviced speci cally according to their needs and current situation. In this paper we propose a framework for proactive assembly instructions which aims to overcome limitations of today's printed and computer based instructions. By at- taching several computing devices and multiple sensors onto di erent parts of the assembly the system can recognize the actions of the user and determine the current state of the assembly. Depending on the us- age mode the system can suggest the next most appropriate action at any point in time. In an experimental case study with the IKEA PAX wardrobe we show the feasibility of the proposed approach. At the end important issues are discussed and future directions are outlined.

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Bibtex Record

@InProceedings{ubicomp02furniture,
  author =       {Antifakos, Stavros and Michahelles, Florian and Schiele, Bernt},
  title =        {{Proactive Instructions for Furniture Assembly}},
  booktitle =    {Proceedings of the The Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2002)},
  year =         {2002},
  address =      {Göteborg, Sweden},
  month =        {September}
}