ActivityDesigner Documentation

This is a very preliminary user manual for ActivityDesigner. Please contact us if you run into any problems with using the system.

ActivityDesigner is a system for activity-based prototyping of ubiquitous computing applications. It allows designers to

model activities based on concrete scenarios collected from people’s every-day lives,
create functional prototypes based on modeled human activities,
test these prototypes with real users continuously in a longitudinal, in-situ manner,
and analyze a test by monitoring an on-going experiment remotely, replaying past activity events and querying experimental data for further analysis.

The documentation for ActivityDesigner is in two parts:

Tutorial Introduction

A tutorial that leads you through the basics of an activity-based prototyping process for designing a set of coordinated ubicomp applications, including human activity modeling, interaction behavior prototyping and prototype testing both locally and in-situ.

Reference

A topic-by-topic summary of ActivityDesigner's available features in detail, and the protocol for adding new sensing components.