The Usage of Context aware displays in shared student living places : Analyzing current perspectives and designing prototype

Abstract: Context aware displays are becoming more and more common in one’s daily lifeand play an active role in order to collaborate with people and systems. In most ofthe shared student corridors, tenants often use notice boards to share all kinds of information which is less obsolete in the digital age. This paper presents adesign-oriented research to find out an effective way to fulfill the needs of thetenants who are living in shared corridors. We tried to design a context awaredisplay which will help the tenants to communicate with one another efficiently,share resources and reduce the conflicts. An extensive investigation was carriedout for data gathering to find out the problems of the tenants, behavior and effectsof conflicts on the social life of the tenants living in shared student corridors.Based on the findings we built a design prototype.