Richer Interaction
User-centered and unobtrusive interfaces
Motion-based patterns

Kinetic-awareness
  New generation location-based systems
Spatio-temporal contexts

  

Observation layer
The observation layer collects location and motion contexts from location-aware mobile devices through a set of drivers. Mobile devices are linked to the KUI entities called Kuidgets.

KUI-Space layer
This layer is an object-oriented environment that contains Kuidgets and manages their state and spatial relationships (e.g. inclusion, proximity). Location information pertaining to Kuidgets is stored in a wrapped Geographical DataBase (GeoDB) that is also used to store and manage physical spatial references of fixed and mobile Kuidgets for both topological and symbolic spaces.

Activity layer
This layer manages the context history, and aggregates KUI events into higher-level semantic events (e.g. for the detection of specific interaction patterns) that are sent to the applications. In this layer representations of situations are constructed by aggregating information from Kuidgets.

2009 Pallotta, Vincenzo, Kinetic User Interfaces for unobtrusive interaction with mobile and ubiquitous systems. International Journal of Ubiquitous Computing,  1(1), March, 2009. Serial Publications. Bruegger, Pascal, Lalanne, Denis, Lisowska, Agnes and Hirsbrunner, Béat, A Method and Tools for Designing and Prototyping Activity-based Pervasive Applications, in: 7th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2009), ACM, MoMM 09, Kuala Lumpur, December, 2009. Bruegger, Pascal and Hirsbrunner, Béat, Kinetic User Interface: Interaction through Motion for Pervasive Computing Systems, in: Parallel session "Designing for Mobile Computing", Springer, HCI international conference 2009, San Diego, California, USA, July, 2009. Bruegger, Pascal, Pallotta, Vincenzo and Hirsbrunner, Béat, Optimizing Heating System Management Using An Activity-Based Pervasive Application, in: JOURNAL OF DIGITAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, ISSN 0972-7272, Dec. 2009. 2008

Pallotta, Vincenzo, Bruegger, Pascal and Hirsbrunner, Béat, Smart Heating Systems: optimizing heating systems by kinetic-awareness, in: Proceedings of 3rd ICDIM conference, IEEE Press, IEEE, London, November, 2008. Pallotta, Vincenzo, Kinetic Mashups: augmenting physical places with motion-aware services, in: Communications of SIWN, ISSN 1757-4439, 2008. Pallotta, Vincenzo, Bruegger, Pascal and Hirsbrunner, Béat, Kinetic User Interfaces: Physical Embodied Interaction with Mobile Pervasive Computing Systems, in: Advances in Ubiquitous Computing:Future Paradigms and Directions, IGI Publishing, ISBN 978-1-59904-840-6, February, 2008.

2007

Bruegger, Pascal, Pallotta, Vincenzo and Hirsbrunner, Béat, UbiGlide: a motion-aware personal flight assistant, in: Adjoint Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, pages 155-158, Bardram et al. (eds.), UBICOMP, Innsbruck, Austria, September, 2007.

Pallotta, Vincenzo, Bruegger, Pascal, Maret, Timothée, Martenet, Nicolas and Hirsbrunner, Béat, Kinetic User Interfaces for Flexible Mobile Collaboration, in: International Conference and Exhibition on NEXT GENERATION MOBILE APPLICATIONS, SERVICES and TECHNOLOGIES, pages 247-252, IEEE Computer Society, Khalid Al-Begain (ed.), NGMAST, Cardiff, Wales, UK, September, 2007.

Pallotta, Vincenzo, Bruegger, Pascal and Hirsbrunner, Béat, The road towards unobtrusiveness: Kinetic User Interfaces., in: Workshops Proceedings of Attention Management in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, pages 10-15, Bajart, Muller, Strang (Eds.), AMUCE, Ubicomp, Innsbruck, Austria, September, 2007.

2006

Pallotta, Vincenzo, Brocco, Amos, Guinard, Dominique, Bruegger, Pascal and De Almeida, Pedro, RoamBlog: Outdoor and Indoor Geoblogging Enhanced with Contextual Service Provisioning for Mobile Internet Users, in: Proceedings of the 1st International workshop on Distributed Agent-based Retrieval Tools, pages 103-121, Polimetrica International Scientific Publisher, DART, ISBN 88-7699-043-7, June, 2006.

Pallotta, Vincenzo and Hirsbrunner, Béat, The Kinetic User Interface, in: Proceedings of Workshop on Near Field Interaction: User-centered interactions with the internet of things, pages 13-14, NordiCHI 2006, Oslo, October, 2006.