Using electrochromic displays to display ambient information and notifications

ABSTRACT

Ambient Displays are a promising means to reduce notification overload and work towards the vision of Calm Computing. In this paper, we present electrochromic displays as a novel class of displays to convey information. electrochromic displays are non-light-emitting, flexible, free-form, transparent, energy-efficient, easily integrated, and slow-switching, making them ideal candidates for information that changes over time and does not require immediate user attention. We describe the key features of electrochromic displays as well as application areas and provide an outlook into future developments of the technology.

References

1. Luke Barrington, Michael J. Lyons, Dominique Diegmann, and Shinji Abe. 2006. Ambient Display Using Musical Effects. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '06). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 372--374.
2. Claes-Göran Granqvist. 2015. Electrochromic metal oxides: an introduction to materials and devices. In Electrochromic Materials and Devices. Wiley-VCH Weinheim, Germany, 3--40.
3. Walther Jensen, Ashley Colley, Jonna Häkkilä, Carlos Pinheiro, and Markus Löchtefeld. 2019. TransPrint: A Method for Fabricating Flexible Transparent Free-Form Displays. Advances in Human-Computer Interaction 2019 (2019).
4. Konstantin Klamka and Raimund Dachselt. 2017. IllumiPaper: Illuminated Interactive Paper. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5605--5618.
5. Terho Kololuoma, Mikko Keränen, Timo Kurkela, Tuomas Happonen, Marko Korkalainen, Minna Kehusmaa, Lucia Gomez, Aida Branco, Sami Ihme, Carlos Pinheiro, et al. 2019. Adopting Hybrid Integrated Flexible Electronics in Products: Case-Personal Activity Meter. IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society (2019).
6. Jennifer Mankoff, Anind K. Dey, Gary Hsieh, Julie Kientz, Scott Lederer, and Morgan Ames. 2003. Heuristic Evaluation of Ambient Displays. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '03). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 169--176.
7. Tara Matthews, Tye Rattenbury, Scott Carter, Anind Dey, and Jennifer Mankoff. 2003. A peripheral display toolkit. University of California, Berkeley Technotes, UCB//CSD-03-1258 168 (2003).
8. Andrii Matviienko, Maria Rauschenberger, Vanessa Cobus, Janko Timmermann, Heiko Müller, Jutta Fortmann, Andreas Löcken, Christoph Trappe, Wilko Heuten, and Susanne Boll. 2015. Deriving Design Guidelines for Ambient Light Systems. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 267--277.
9. Heiko Müller, Andreas Löcken, Wilko Heuten, and Susanne Boll. 2014. Sparkle: An Ambient Light Display for Dynamic Off-screen Points of Interest. In Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational (NordiCHI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 51--60.
10. Simon Olberding, Michael Wessely, and Jürgen Steimle. 2014. PrintScreen: Fabricating Highly Customizable Thin-film Touch-Displays. Proceedings of the 27th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (2014), 281--290.
11. Martin Pielot and Rodrigo de Oliveira. 2013. Peripheral Vibro-tactile Displays. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Human-computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1--10.
12. Jürgen Steimle. 2015. Printed Electronics for Human-Computer Interaction. Interactions 22, 3 (apr 2015), 72.
13. Daniel Vogel and Ravin Balakrishnan. 2004. Interactive Public Ambient Displays: Transitioning from Implicit to Explicit, Public to Personal, Interaction with Multiple Users. In Proceedings of the 17th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '04). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 137--146.
14. Mark Weiser. 1991. The computer for the 21st century. Mobile Computing and Communications Review 3, 3 (jul 1991), 3--11. arXiv:arXiv:1011.1669v3
15. Mark Weiser and John Seely Brown. 1996. Designing calm technology. PowerGrid Journal 1, 1 (1996), 75--85.

Index Terms

• Human-centered computing

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)

    • Interaction devices

      • Displays and imagers

  • Ubiquitous and mobile computing

    • Ubiquitous and mobile devices

  • Visualization

    • Visualization application domains

      • Information visualization