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2005
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u-Photo: Interacting with Pervasive Services Using Digital Still Images

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u-Photo: Interacting with Pervasive Services Using Digital Still Images
This paper presents u-Photo which is an interactive digital still image including information of pervasive services associated with networked appliances and sensors in pervasive computing environment. U-Photo Tools can generate a u-Photo and provide methods for discovering contextual information about these pervasive services. Users can easily find out this information through the metaphor of ‘taking a photograph’; the users use u-Photo by clicking on a physical entity in a digital still image. In addition, u-Photo makes managing information more efficient because the still image has embedded visual information. Using u-Photo and u-Photo Tools, we conducted various demonstrations and performed usability tests. The results of these tests show that u-Photo Tools are easy to learn. We also present that the time that expert uPhoto users take to find the object in piles of u-Photos is shorter than the time it take to find the object in piles of text-based descriptions.
Genta Suzuki, Shun Aoki, Takeshi Iwamoto, Daisuke
Added 28 Jun 2010
Updated 28 Jun 2010
Type Conference
Year 2005
Where PERVASIVE
Authors Genta Suzuki, Shun Aoki, Takeshi Iwamoto, Daisuke Maruyama, Takuya Koda, Naohiko Kohtake, Kazunori Takashio, Hideyuki Tokuda
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