Exploring the motivations involved in context aware services

CHRISTOPHER, Roast and XIAOHUI, Zhang (2012). Exploring the motivations involved in context aware services. In: HCI 2012 : 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Birmingham, 12-14 September 2012. Birmingham UK, BISL, 274-279.

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Abstract

This paper reports on research focused upon understanding the factors influencing the effective use of context aware adaptive systems. Unlike many desktop applications, ubiquitous computing supports users in dynamic situations by utilizing surrounding context to help them manage and utilise technology. It is by its nature highly dynamic since it responds to changes in context of use, and this brings new challenges to interaction design. In particular, there is still little research into human factors relating to the effectiveness and appropriateness of ubiquitous computing concepts. We review theoretical factors regarding human user’s motivation, emotion, perception and preference that are relevant to evaluating ubiquitous computing. Here we then report on empirical research relating these theoretical factors to the use of contextually aware adaptive systems. The results show that there is a significant difference in users' preferences between intrinsic and extrinsic motivations. The other findings identify the importance and role of user involvement in decision-making processes. Overall the work raises interesting questions about the nature of empirical research as a methodology of relevance to adaptive system design.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute > Communication and Computing Research Centre
Page Range:	274-279
Depositing User:	Chris Roast
Date Deposited:	28 Sep 2012 08:38
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 13:46
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/6350

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