Research Statement

A carefully elaborated set of models and model fragments describing possible scenarios and procedures in Smart Environments is essential for a foresighted user support, both as regards the control of devices and the visualization of the current system states as well of possible following states. Task models have proved their suitability as a description method for that purpose. They are able to specify collaborative work, which is an essential characteristic of activities in Smart Environments.

The research focuses on a scenario based construction of task models as a combination of task analysis and model induction. The resulting models will be improved by using patterns and will later serve as a starting point for the development of design models and the investigation of different interaction techniques to control the degree of support the user experiences in the Smart Environment. Usability evaluations can base on and refer to the task models being a communication aid for designers, developers and evaluators as well as users.

Publications

Gregor Buchholz and Peter Forbrig, From Collaborative Scenario Recording to Smart Room Assistance Models, in: Norbert Streitz and Panos Markopoulos (Hrsg.), Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions, volume 9189 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 262-273, Springer International Publishing, 2015. ISBN: 978-3-319-20803-9

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Gregor Buchholz and Peter Forbrig, Combining Design of Models for Smart Environments with Pattern-Based Extraction, in: Masaaki Kurosu (Hrsg.), Human-Computer Interaction. Theories, Methods, and Tools - 16th International Conference, HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part I, volume 8510 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 285--294, Springer, 2014. ISBN: 978-3-319-07232-6

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Gregor Buchholz and Peter Forbrig, Generating Scenario Traces for Model Creation in Smart Environments, in: Juan Carlos Augusto and Tongzhen Zhang (Hrsg.), Workshop Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Environments, Shanghai, China, June 30 - July 1, 2014, volume 18 of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, pages 28--36, IOS Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-61499-410-7

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Gregor Buchholz and Peter Forbrig, Modellierung für Smart Environments mittels Tangible Interfaces, in: Andreas Butz, Michael Koch and Johann Schlichter (Hrsg.), Mensch & Computer 2014 - Online Workshopband, 2014.

Peter Forbrig, Michael Zaki and Gregor Buchholz, Models as a Starting Point of Software Development for Smart Environments, in: Norbert Streitz and Panos Markopoulos (Hrsg.), Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions - Second International Conference, DAPI 2014, Held as Part of HCI Interational 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014. Proceedings, volume 8530 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 15--24, Springer, 2014. ISBN: 978-3-319-07787-1

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Sebastian Schick, Gregor Buchholz, Meike Klettke, Andreas Heuer and Peter Forbrig, iETL: Flexibilisierung der Datenintegration in Data Warehouses, in: Ingo Schmitt, Sascha Saretz and Marcel Zierenberg (Hrsg.), Grundlagen von Datenbanken, volume 850 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, pages 59-64, CEUR-WS.org, 2012.

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Stefan Propp, Gregor Buchholz and Peter Forbrig, Integration of usability evaluation and model-based software development, in: Adv. Eng. Softw., volume 40, 40:12(1223--1230), 2009.

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Stefan Propp, Gregor Buchholz and Peter Forbrig, Integrating Usability Methods into Model-Based Software Development, in: Victor Lopez Jaquero, Francisco Montero Simarro, Jose Pascual Molina Masso and Jean Vanderdonckt (Hrsg.), Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces VI, pages 125-136, Springer London, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-84882-205-4

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Stefan Propp, Gregor Buchholz and Peter Forbrig, Task Model-Based Usability Evaluation for Smart Environments, in: Peter Forbrig and Fabio Paternò (Hrsg.), Engineering Interactive Systems, volume 5247 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 29-40, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. ISBN: 978-3-540-85991-8

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Stefan Propp, Gregor Buchholz and Peter Forbrig, Integrating Usability Methods into Model-based Software Development, in: Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces (CADUI 2008), pages 125--136, 2008.

Gregor Buchholz and Stefan Propp, Towards Usability Evaluation for Smart Appliance Ensembles, in: Design, Specification, and Verification of Interactive Systems (DSV-IS 2008), pages 294--299, 2008.

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Gregor Buchholz, Jürgen Engel, Christian Märtin and Stefan Propp, Model-Based Usability Evaluation -- Evaluation of Tool Support, in: Julie A. Jacko (Hrsg.), Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Design and Usability, volume 4550 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 1043-1052, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. ISBN: 978-3-540-73104-7

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Stefan Propp and Gregor Buchholz, A User Control Mechanism for Smart Appliance Ensembles, in: KI 2007: Workshop Towards Ambient Intelligence: Methods for Cooperating Ensembles in Ubiquitous Environments (AIM-CU), 2007.

Gregor Buchholz, Stefan Propp and Peter Forbrig, Methoden für Usability-Evaluationen auf Basis von Aufgabenmodellen, in: Usability Professionals 2007: Berichtband des fünften Workshops des German Chapters der Usability Professionals Association e.V., pages 21-42, 2007.

Stefan Propp and Gregor Buchholz, Visualization of Task Traces, in: Interact 2007: Workshop on New Methods in User-Centered System Design, 2007.