Location sensing is a key enabling technology for Ubicomp to support contextual interaction. However, the laboratories where calibrated testing of location technologies is done are very different to the domestic situations where `context' is a problematic social construct. This study reports measurements of Bluetooth beacons, informed by laboratory studies, but done in diverse domestic settings. The design of these surveys has been motivated by the natural environment implied in the Bluetooth beacon standards - relating the technical environment of the beacon to the function of spaces within the home. This research method can be considered as a situated, `ethnographic' technical response to the study of physical infrastructure that arises through social processes. The results offer insights for the future design of `seamful' approaches to indoor location sensing, and to the ways that context might be constructed and interpreted in a seamful manner.
翻译:位置感测是Ubicom的一项关键扶持技术,用于支持背景互动,然而,对位置技术进行校准测试的实验室与国内情况有很大不同,因为国内情况中“背景”是一个问题的社会结构。本研究报告报告了根据实验室研究对蓝牙信标的测量,该测量是在多种国内环境中进行的。这些勘测的设计受到蓝牙信标标准所隐含的自然环境的驱动,将信标的技术环境与家庭空间的功能联系起来。这一研究方法可被视为对通过社会进程产生的有形基础设施研究的所在地、“人种”技术反应。研究结果为今后设计室内位置感测的“密封”方法提供了深刻的见解,并说明了环境的构建和解释方式。