ACCORD Project Deliverables in chronological order

Deliverable 2.1 - The core accord toolkit

Deliverable type: Internal project report

Abstract: This deliverable reports the initial development of the core accord toolkit. It presents a simple programming model based on a number of components communicating through a shared data space. The deliverable presents the overall structure of the model and the way I which components are automatically shared across the environment using a very simple API. A few examples of the components in use are outlined before the core challenges facing the accord toolkit are discussed.

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Deliverable 5.1 - Project Presentation

Deliverable type: Public project document

Abstract: ACCORD is developing a toolkit to enable people to develop and administer their own environments, where the computer has disappeared, by providing a series of exemplar devices exploiting novel sensing technologies, a supporting event-based infrastructure and a set of configuration tools. This toolkit will aim to enable functionality to emerge from the combination of a number of devices in practice. ACCORD will support the integration of information and activity inherent in home life by developing and demonstrating the concept of a Tangible Toolbox. This toolbox is a collection of interaction devices and a supporting software infrastructure that enables people to convert a physical environment into an active tangible environment where the computer has disappeared.

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Deliverable 1.1 - The Sociality of Domestic Environments: The Historical Shaping of the Home

Deliverable type: Public project report

Abstract: This deliverable, the first in a series investigating the sociality of the domestic environment, sets out explicate the historical shaping of the home. We attend in particular to the socio-historical factors through the influence of which the modern domestic space has come to assume its recognisable form. Particular attention is paid to the role of architecture, technology, and the formative character of social interaction. We suggest that these three factors constitute a distinct domestic legacy, which it is important for design to build upon in constructing the home of the future.

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Deliverable 4.1 - Dissemination and Use plan

Deliverable type: Internal project report

Abstract: This document outlines the major expected results from the project, together with the plans for the dissemination of these results and making them available for use outside the project.

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Deliverable 1.2 - The Sociality of Domestic Environments: Shaping the Home: Architecture, Technology and Social Interaction

Deliverable type: Public project report

Abstract: Deliverable 1.1 The Historical Shaping of the Home identified architecture, technology, and social interaction as constituent features of domestic legacy that are relevant to the design of computer-based technologies for the home. This chapter explores each of these topical constituents in turn, with an eye towards formulating one potential strategy whereby the three points of view may be combined in a constructive way for purposes of design. In particular, that strategy develops the notion of a pattern language for purposes of design. The pattern language framework places emphasis on the recurrent relationships that observably obtain between action and technology within specific environments such as the home. Thus, the framework seeks to ground design in an empirically available domestic legacy that consists of architecturally situated patterns of technology usage.

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Deliverable 1.3 - Use and development scenarios for the tangible toolbox

Deliverable type: Public project document

Abstract: This deliverable considers a number of common tasks that might be supported around the domestic environment and the range of functionality required to realise these tasks. This work has been informed by a collection of patterns describing how domestic technologies are woven into the fabric of everyday life, and through a consideration of how different technological possibilities might be plausibly used. The main result presented by the deliverable is the definition of two scenarios that will be used to focus the development of the toolbox and point towards the tangible interactive environment (TIE) that the project will use to finally demonstrate its results.

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Deliverable 2.2 - Progress report on conceptualisation of the tangible toolbox

Deliverable type: Internal project report

Cancelled due to a small delay in the beginning of the project. The final result is reported in D2.4.

Deliverable 2.3/3.1 - Report from initial understanding and using the tangible toolbox workshop

Deliverable type: Internal project report

Cancelled due to a small delay in the beginning of the project. Results reported in D1.3 and D3.2.

Deliverable 2.4 - Final report on toolbox conceptualisation

Deliverable type: Public project document

Abstract: This deliverable reports the final conceptualization of our component-based approach that enables people to develop their own interactive home environments by assembling available devices. We describe the toolkit based on this component-based model that supports the rapid composition of ubiquitous domestic environments. The basis of the model is the notion of a shadow digital environment that mirrors selected parts of the real world and allows components to make themselves available for use. Components essentially transform information between the physical world and the shadow digital environment. In this deliverable we describe the model and the resultant toolkit, which comprises a supporting communication and event infrastructure, a collection of hardware and software components, and editing facilities to rapidly combine different components. Initial composition facilities consist of a graphical editor for linking components and a handheld device that allows users to view the state of the devices in the environment and make links between them.

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Deliverable 3.2 - Understanding and using the tangibel toolbox

Deliverable type: Public project document

Abstract: This deliverable describes the components and editors that have been implemented as part of the Accord toolbox along with preliminary results from formative focus-group sessions. We begin by establishing the basic software skeleton and editing tools that have been created within the Accord project to allow home inhabitants to develop their own household services. We then present a set of components that we have built for use in the home, along with example scenarios of use that are intended to better illustrate their functionality. We conclude by discussing preliminary results from focus-group sessions with regard to editing tools and services.

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Deliverable 2.5 - internal release of the tangible toolbox

Deliverable type: Internal software release

The official release D2.6 supersede this version of the tangible toolbox.

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Deliverable 2.6 - external release of the tangibel toolbox

Deliverable type: Public software release

Abstract: The final release of the actual tangible toolbox. Zip-file with source-code as well as compiled binaries. See D3.4 Tangible toolbox design handbook for more details on how to run and use this software.

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Deliverable 3.3 - Study of the use of the tangibel toolbox

Deliverable type: Public project document

Abstract: This paper presents the development of a lightweight component model that allows user to manage the introduction and arrangement of new interactive services and devices in the home. The model is responsive to ethnographic studies of the interplay between the Space-plan or interior layout and Stuff or artefacts placed within the fabric of the home. Interaction techniques developed through user-participation enable household members – rather than designers – to configure and reconfigure interactive devices and services to meet local needs. As a result, we have developed a tablet-based editor that discovers available ubiquitous components and presents these to users as ‘jigsaw pieces’ that can be dynamically assembled and recombined.

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Deliverable 3.4 - Tangible toolbox design handbook

Deliverable type: Public project document

Abstract: The main aim of the ACCORD project is to develop facilities to construct, administer and manage future interactive home environments. We see the arrangement of interactive devices as the principle means of controlling the complexity inherent in domestic environments. We wish to realise dynamic and adaptive methods, techniques and facilities to allow inhabitants to evolve their own Tangible Interactive Environment.

This documentation is the manual for the ACCORD Tangible Toolbox, the platform, service components, and editors. For more information on concepts and underlying theories see the Understanding and Using the Tangible Toolbox deliverable also included.

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