{"id":208,"date":"2016-07-24T00:39:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T07:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/?page_id=208"},"modified":"2016-07-25T17:54:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T00:54:15","slug":"designers-perspectives-on-context","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/research\/designers-perspectives-on-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Designers\u2019 Perspectives on Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Context has long been considered an important component of design,\u00a0but as technology becomes more capable of inferring the user\u2019s behavior\u00a0and environment, what constitutes context has become an increasingly\u00a0pressing concern to designers. While design frameworks and models\u00a0have been proposed for context-aware computing systems, there has not\u00a0yet been research that focuses on understanding context empirically\u00a0from the perspective of the designer. To address this, we\u00a0analyzed of 11 in-depth interviews we conducted with designers of a\u00a0variety of context-aware systems. Our analysis of the artifacts and\u00a0interviews reveal five concerns designers address in their work.\u00a0Furthermore, we present a process model that illustrates how context-aware\u00a0system designers address these concerns. Our findings\u00a0demonstrate the central role that designers\u2019 views of context plays in 1)\u00a0framing a design space, 2) encoding the relevant features of context, 3)\u00a0unifying possible solutions within that design space, and 4) evaluating\u00a0designs. These findings suggest that context is a dynamic concept that\u00a0evolves over the course of a design project, generally from a more\u00a0phenomenological perspective toward a positivist interpretation. This,\u00a0and the process by which it occurs, contributes insight into context-aware\u00a0design with implications for both academics and practitioners. This work was presented at the iConference 2014 and published in the HCI Journal in 2014.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_291\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-291\" class=\" wp-image-291\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/context1-300x99.png\" alt=\"Example prototypes of context-aware applications developed by designers who participated in our study\" width=\"388\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/context1-300x99.png 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/context1-624x206.png 624w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/context1.png 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Example prototypes of context-aware applications developed by designers who participated in our study<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>People<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jared Bauer<br \/>\nMark Newman<br \/>\nJulie Kientz<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bauer, J. S., Newman, M. W., &amp; Kientz, J. A. (2014). What designers talk about when they talk about context. Human\u2013Computer Interaction, 29(5-6), 420-450.<\/li>\n<li>Bauer, J. S., Newman, M. W., &amp; Kientz, J. A. (2014). Thinking about context: Design practices for information architecture with context-aware systems. iConference 2014 Proceedings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context has long been considered an important component of design,\u00a0but as technology becomes more capable of inferring the user\u2019s behavior\u00a0and environment, what constitutes context has become an increasingly\u00a0pressing concern to designers. While design frameworks and models\u00a0have been proposed for context-aware computing systems, there has not\u00a0yet been research that focuses on understanding context empirically\u00a0from the perspective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":67,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-208","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions\/293"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chilllab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}