TY - GEN
T1 - Exploring the design of pay-per-use objects in the construction domain
AU - Fitton, Daniel
AU - Sundramoorthy, Vasughi
AU - Kortuem, Gerd
AU - Brown, James
AU - Efstratiou, Christos
AU - Finney, Joe
AU - Davies, Nigel
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Equipment used in the construction domain is often hired in order to reduce cost and maintenance overhead. The cost of hire is dependent on the time period involved and does not take into account the actual use equipment has received. This paper presents our initial investigation into how physical objects augmented with sensing and communication technologies can measure use in order to enable new pay-per-use payment models for equipment hire. We also explore user interaction with pay-per-use objects via mobile devices. The user interactions that take place within our prototype scenario range from simple information access to transactions involving multiple users. This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a prototype pay-per-use system motivated by a real world equipment hire scenario. We also provide insights into the various challenges introduced by supporting a pay-per-use model, including data storage and data security in addition to user interaction issues.
AB - Equipment used in the construction domain is often hired in order to reduce cost and maintenance overhead. The cost of hire is dependent on the time period involved and does not take into account the actual use equipment has received. This paper presents our initial investigation into how physical objects augmented with sensing and communication technologies can measure use in order to enable new pay-per-use payment models for equipment hire. We also explore user interaction with pay-per-use objects via mobile devices. The user interactions that take place within our prototype scenario range from simple information access to transactions involving multiple users. This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a prototype pay-per-use system motivated by a real world equipment hire scenario. We also provide insights into the various challenges introduced by supporting a pay-per-use model, including data storage and data security in addition to user interaction issues.
KW - Mobile HCI
KW - Pay-per-use
KW - Smart objects
KW - User interaction
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=57049143221&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-88793-5_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-88793-5_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:57049143221
SN - 354088792X
SN - 9783540887928
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 192
EP - 205
BT - 3rd European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context, EuroSSC 2008
PB - Springer
T2 - 3rd European Conference on Smart Sensing and Context, EuroSSC 2008
Y2 - 29 October 2008 through 31 October 2008
ER -