Evaluating the CoolTown User Experience

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Evaluating the CoolTown User Experience
Mirjana Spasojevic Tim Kindberg Mobile Systems
and Services Lab HP Labs In collaboration with
Exploratorium
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Setting interactive science museum
real exhibit
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Study use of nomadic computing tools

• E.g. in museum
• Informer
• Suggester
• Communicator
• Rememberer

• Interference how does the tool affect the
  amount, character and quality of attention paid
  to the physical artifacts and companions?
• Efficacy is the functionality of the tool
  adequate?
• Design implications which parameters of the
  design and the domain account for the
  observations made in answering previous
  questions?

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Data capture Rememberer
observations/interviews
personal artifact (web page, postcard, etc.)
content
server
RFID
IR
802.11
Internet
remember-this
capturing web accesses
real exhibit
Pi-station beacon (infrared), barcode, RFID
plus processing, I/O and networking