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Doris Hausen, Andreas Butz
Entangling Ambient Information with Peripheral Interaction
Workshop Work-in-Progress. 5th ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2011), Funchal, Portugal, January 23 - 26, 2011

Ambient information systems have been an active research area since the 1990s. However, most of these ambient systems let the user only passively consume information, and do not provide a way to interact with it. In this paper, we offer a view beyond just representing information. We propose to engage the user in a peripheral interaction with the ambient device. By keeping it peripheral, all advantages of ambient information systems - e.g. keeping the users aware without burdening them - are preserved. We will demonstrate this concept with two prototypes - an ambient appointment projection and a presence-indicating tangible.