Understanding requirements of ubiquitous application in context of daily life

Abstract

Progress of ubiquitous computing oriented ICT promotes development of information appliances with various functions. In spite of the progress, most of user cannot receive the benefit of them. In this paper as the reason of it, the problems related to increasing enormous amount of information contents were discussed. Based on the problems, there are new challenges for designing user experiences; interactions with vast amount of information contents and integrations ubiquitous computing applications into daily life. Analyzing these challenges from view of human-centered design could derive the necessity to services design based on ubiquitous technologies and validation of them. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.