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Students: Brian Landry
Incorporating non-traditional devices, such as an alarm clock, into the user's PIE
offers an opportunity to support different kinds of applications. For example, we can
explore how to support routine decision-making.
People make hundreds of decisions every day. Rather than optimize those decisions by gathering
pertinent information, people instead rely on routines. While those routines are usually sufficient, they do
occasionally fail. Those failures present an opportunity to improve decision-making by providing low-cost
information when and where people start to follow their routines. We conducted a study to examine the
routines that users follow at night and in the morning. Drawing on the results, we created a next-generation
alarm clock that highlights unusual situations to help users determine when and how to modify their routines
to more effectively decide on an alarm time, what to wear, when to get out of bed, and when to leave for
work.
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Our clock's interface helps users decide the night before when to get up and what
to wear by displaying unusual events (left image=unusual, right image=usual). |
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While the user's alarm is going off, our clock's interface displays unusual traffic,
and weather, and events to help the user decide when to get out of bed. |
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After the alarm has gone off, our clock's interface displays unusual event, weather,
and traffic information to help the user decide what to wear and when to leave. |
Publications:
Brian M. Landry, Jeffrey S. Pierce, and Charles L. Isbell.
Supporting Routine Decision-Making with a Next-Generation Alarm Clock.
2nd International Conference on Appliance Design, 2004, pages 30-36.
Brian M. Landry, Jeffrey S. Pierce, and Charles L. Isbell.
Supporting Routine Decision-Making with a Next-Generation Alarm Clock.
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 8 nos. 3-4, pages 154-160.
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