Maria and Lalya at DIS 2008!

Maria and Lalya got their full paper "Bringing Context to the Foreground: Designing for Creative Engagement in a Novel Still Camera Application" accepted for DIS 2008. The conference takes place in Cape Town, South Africa, during 25 February - 27 February 2008.

Abstract
Sensor-based interaction has enabled a variety of new creative practices. With ubiquitous computing, designing for creative user experience with sensor-based devices benefits from new opportunities as well as new challenges. We propose a design approach where surrounding context information is brought to the foreground to become a resource for interaction, available at hand and in real time to the users. We illustrate this approach with our project context photography as a design case. Context photography consists of taking still pictures that capture not only incoming light but also some of the additional context surrounding the scene, with real-time context information visually affecting the pictures as they are taken. Based on the design and use of our context camera prototypes, this paper brings insight into implications of our approach to the design of sensor-based ubiquitous computing systems for creative purposes.