Deployable Living Lab (DLL)
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Studying people in their natural environment for testing and evaluating existing and emerging technologies has been an active research topic for the last decades. Gathering information from people in their own homes with self-report surveys or asking people to stay in instrumented residential live-in laboratories are two current methods for collecting data on home behavior. Both of the methods may interfere with a person’s daily life and may be perceived as burdensome. Ethnographic studies in which one or more researchers physically observe users provide valuable information but they are usually expensive and time consuming to conduct and might miss mundane information generated during the extended usage.
To complement these existing techniques, we are designing a new hardware and software system for collecting data from home on behavior and interaction with novel products and services. The system passively records multi-modal contextual data, including a complete sensor, audio, and visual record, without requiring continuous self-report and without interfering users` daily activities. The system uses a set of lamp-like kiosks. One kiosk is placed in each room of a home, and the system then operates continuously and robustly, collecting data on behavior in the home.
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