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Experience-Driven Framework for Technologically-Enhanced Environments: Key Challenges and Potential Solutions

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Technologically-enhanced physical environments are gradually replacing a natural part of our working and living environments. Although their use in everyday life is still rare, there has been a good effort towards a better understanding of their implications in our society, and the type of user experiences that can be provided. In this paper, we discuss various issues related to user-centric designs of technologically-enhanced environments based on our results and previous literature. We ground our argument on the hypotheses that these environments are becoming an indispensable part of people’s daily lives. The integration of technologically-enhanced environments into the fabric of everyday life requires, therefore, to take into consideration a set of human experience dimensions (e.g. emotional, instrumental value, etc.) when shaping the interaction between people and the environment they live and act in. Understanding people expectations, the experience they seek in technologically-enhanced environments, and enabling them to easily influence and shape their self-crafted environments according to their needs and ever-changing expectations, in a trustworthy and controllable, can help us shape a more acceptable and meaningful vision of technologically-enhanced environments for all those living and acting in them.

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Simões, B., De Amicis, R. (2016). Experience-Driven Framework for Technologically-Enhanced Environments: Key Challenges and Potential Solutions. In: Pietro, G., Gallo, L., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services 2016. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 55. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39345-2_47

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