Designing Interactions with Autonomous Physical Systems

TL;DR

This paper introduces four prototyping approaches for designing and evaluating interfaces and interactions with autonomous physical systems, providing a classification to aid researchers in selecting suitable methods.

Contribution

It presents a novel collection of four prototyping approaches and offers a classification framework to guide their selection for autonomous physical systems.

Findings

Four prototyping approaches developed and applied

A classification framework for prototyping approaches

Guidelines for selecting appropriate prototyping platforms

Abstract

In this position paper, we present a collection of four different prototyping approaches which we have developed and applied to prototype and evaluate interfaces for and interactions around autonomous physical systems. Further, we provide a classification of our approaches aiming to support other researchers and designers in choosing appropriate prototyping platforms and representations.