Towards Situation-Aware Affordances: An Experimental Study

Abstract: In this paper we present and evaluate a system that extends the idea of classic affordances to situation-aware affordances by presenting small amounts of instructions at the right time and at the right place. We evaluate this concept using the example of a standard flatpack wardrobe extended with light emitting diodes (LED's) on each board. These LED's display the assembly instructions in a proactive way by adapting the information with each movement the user makes. The experiment presented compares the use of paper instructions with the proposed LED based instructions. As result, LED's proved sufficient to even produce a measurable time gain. To test intuitivity and usability of the instructions a comparison between instructions in different modalities is carried out.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{perv04,
  title =        {{Towards Situation-Aware Affordances: An Experimental Study}},
  author =       {Stavros Antifakos and Florian Michahelles and Bernt Schiele},
  year =         {2004},
  booktitle =    {Pervasive Computing},
  address =      {Vienna, Austrian},
  month = {April}
}