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The design of ubiquitous smart spaces requires collaborative efforts in integration of physical environments, digital infrastructures, and creating user experiences in a broader context of human-centered design. In this paper, we do not attempt to identify the technological issues or detail the functionality of ubiquitous smart spaces, but instead focus on design principles in developing a ubiquitous smart space. The paper is interested in developing a design framework in support of a flexible and adaptable ubiquitous smart space of the future. The development of ubiquitous smart spaces involves possibly unique sets of design criteria. Many types of ubiquitous computing applications are of this sort; our particular interest is the dynamics of architectural space, involving modular physical computing and interactive design processes from conceptualization, design development, prototyping, to usability tests.
Smart space is a collaborative endeavor, involving interdisciplinary fields such as computing, architecture, industrial design, engineering and cognitive psychology. Due to the lack of a design framework, most researchers create a smart space in a laboratory setting simply for demonstrating technologies without considering the inter-relationship among humans, lives, and technologies. More effort is needed in developing an interdisciplinary design framework that articulates various viewpoints on ubiquitous computing technologies, while emphasizing the potential applications of smart spaces to transform our built environments.
This work takes a human-centric approach to structuring the research scope of ubiq- uitous smart spaces over several dimensions. One dimension depicts environments according to the scale of the physical space, ranging from furniture, appliances, walls, floor, openings, rooms, buildings, to cities. Another dimension depicts a wide spectrum of technologies for ubiquitous computing, including human-computer interaction, sensing, media, display, embedded, and networking. These ubiquitous computing technologies can be implemented in the varied scale of spaces where information and services are provided when and where desired. The third dimension denotes the living requirements concerning safety, health, efficiency, aesthetics, and sustainability.
This work presents a human-centric design framework that articulates the various perspectives and major investigation aspects of ubiquitous computing for smart spaces. The next section elaborates the core of the proposed conceptual framework. They are:integration of physical-digital interaction interfaces;sensing and perceptual technologies;social and environmental awareness, and intelligent devices and service control. As ubiquitous computing technologies become invisibly embedded in our physical environment, buildings become a complex smart living system. The complexity may be intrinsic, imposed by building performance or the construction technology, as in housing design. Alternatively, the complexity of interaction may be imposed extrinsically, as a set of sensing capabilities and computational rules, as in certain system infrastructures in smart homes. Today, most designers and researcher can only consider complexity of smart spaces intuitively, in the experience of tacit knowledge in a particular application domain.