DISCUSSION
Light Behaviors As analyzed in the last chapter, most light behaviors can communicated the content that the designer is intend to have well, except broadcasting and request. The consistence of the light behaviors on different object needs to be improved,. The light behaviors designed for objects with circular surface, should be considered much more to make the direction of the communication behavior more explicit. Basic Understanding The understanding of the light behaviors, the inherent information that the objects provide through form and location, and the augmented feedforward for interaction is regarded as the basic information that the system should communicate without contextual information. Through the gathered quantitative data analysis, the intention to express information with an integration of form, interaction and function was validated. According to the hypothetic behavior loop (Figure24 on page 59), understanding the basic
information can lead the user to enter into the exploration loop, where they can experience the loop of behaving, understanding and reflecting, and interacting. In that case, contextualized information provided by the system through either the final recommendation or the communication process before, needs to be addressed within user’s periphery or higher attention. In the experiment, this part was also validated except that sometimes users are not able to see all the given attitude on four aspects at the same time. Interaction and Reflection Based on the understanding of contextualized communication among objects, the design of the system in aimed to create moments for interaction and reflection. In spite of the inherent and augmented feedforward, the visualization also plays a role as functional feedforward for interaction. No matter within a specific communication, or attracted by PIKA with the displaying scores, users will probably associate the information to their behaviors. By experiencing for several times in the exploration loop, the user is gradually getting familiar with the system, and activities can be more inte-
grated into a primary action. Overall Acceptance According to the interview data, this system can be useful for people who wants to achieve the balanced lifestyle. In the system, visualizing the communication behaviors, and providing autonomy to make the system adapt to the users better, contribute to the acceptance of the system. Limit However, in the final evaluation, the sample size was too small to analyze convincing results. And since the participants have the knowledge of the relevant technology, they assumed that I was doing the simulation for them before I told them at the end of the experiment. Future This design and research carries out the possibilities for future IoT field to dive into the communication , as well as the relationship between objects and between user and the system. More specifically with the addressed concept, enabling to customize topics can also be an future direction .
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