What Changes from Ubiquitous Computing to Internet of Things in Interaction Evaluation?

Rossana M.C. Andrade (1) , Rainara Maia Carvalho , Italo Linhares de Araújo , Káthia Marçal de Oliveira (2) , Marcio Espíndola Freire Maia

1 UFC - Universidade Federal do Ceará = Federal University of Ceará
2 LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201

Internet of Things (IoT) is a new paradigm that includes a network of smart objects, which are embedded sensors, communicating using the Internet. One of the areas that are leading up to IoT is Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp). There are thus solutions such as frameworks, middlewares, and other development artifacts that come from the UbiComp community and can be used for IoT applications. On the other hand, the interaction evaluation of the applications can be more complex in IoT than in UbiComp systems, once we have two different perspectives: Human-Thing and Thing-Thing interactions. In this paper, based on the literature, our experience in these two domains, and case studies with Ubicomp and IoT applications, we discuss how we can benefit from the UbiComp move towards IoT, focusing on the main differences and similarities related to interaction evaluation. These differences open a set of questions that are also presented and discussed in this paper.

Mots clés: Internet of Things; Ubiquitous computing; Quality characteristics; Software measures; Interaction evaluation

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Rossana M.C. Andrade, Rainara Maia Carvalho, Italo Linhares de Araújo, Káthia Marçal de Oliveira, Marcio Espíndola Freire Maia. What Changes from Ubiquitous Computing to Internet of Things in Interaction Evaluation?. Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions 5th International Conference, DAPI 2017, Held as Part of HCI International 2017, Jul 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada. pp.3-21, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-58697-7_1⟩. ⟨hal-03388036⟩