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Design Space and Usability of Earable Prototyping

Röddiger, Tobias ORCID iD icon; Beigl, Michael; Exler, Anja

Abstract (englisch):

Earable computing gains growing attention within research and becomes ubiquitous in society. However, there is an emerging need for prototyping devices as critical drivers of innovation. In our work, we reviewed the features of existing earable platforms. Based on 24 publications, we characterized the design space of earable prototyping. We used the open eSense platform (6-axis IMU, auditory I/O) to evaluate the problem-based learning usability of non-experts. We collected data from 79 undergraduate students who developed 39 projects. Our questionnaire-based results suggest that the platform creates interest in the subject matter and supports self-directed learning. The projects align with the research space, indicating ease of use, but lack contributions for more challenging topics. Additionally, many projects included games not present in current research. The average SUS score of the platform was 67.0. The majority of problems are technical issues (e.g., connecting, playing music).


Postprint §
DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000123446/post
Veröffentlicht am 05.09.2021
Originalveröffentlichung
DOI: 10.1145/3410531.3414302
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Zitationen: 7
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Telematik (TM)
Publikationstyp Proceedingsbeitrag
Publikationsmonat/-jahr 09.2020
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator ISBN: 978-1-4503-8077-5
KITopen-ID: 1000123446
Erschienen in UbiComp/ISWC '20: 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Virtual Event, Mexico, September, 2020. Ed.: K. van Laerhoven
Veranstaltung ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing/ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing (UbiComp/ISWC 2020), Online, 12.09.2020 – 17.09.2020
Verlag Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Seiten 73–78
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