SensAid Pad

Supporting Context-Aware Information Navigation

Micael SjölundLinköping University

Agenda Background SensAid Pad Physical-virtual linkage Implementation Conclusion Questions

Background Ubiquitous

computing Healthcare

environment Information

handling

Objective How to combine sensors Achieve user tasks

Positioning

RFID

Biometics

SensAid Pad Wireless Tablet PC Sensor-equipped

Physical-Virtual Linkage Tokens

Contextual• Location • User

Items Sensors Rules Documents

Implementation SensAid Framework

component

Scenario Manager End-user programming Set up linkage using sensors

Issues Scaling Non-token sensors

Conclusion Token-based approach Future work

Sensors as components Dynamic links Usability trials

Questions