Towards Interdisciplinary Design Patterns for Ubiquitous Computing Applications Technical Report

To draw on the full potential of Ubiquitous Computing (UC) systems, they have to be designed with awareness for their social embedding in order to increase the user acceptance. To this end, not only the compliance with laws has to be ensured, but also usability-enhancing and trust and confidence-building measures have to be applied. This makes the development of UC applications a challenging task that involves experts from different disciplines. The main contribution of this report is a set of design patterns for UC applications that specifically focus on the interweaving and implementation of multidisciplinary requirements. The patterns capture the design know-how of typical, recurring features in context-aware adaptive UC applications with particular concern for the sociotechnical requirements. First, we present a detailed discussion of the related work on design patterns in the realm of UC. Afterwards, we explain our research methodology and the template structure of our pattern specifications. The core of the report consists of eight interdisciplinary UC design patterns. This initial list of patterns was derived from several application case studies in the interdisciplinary research project LOEWE-VENUS. We view this collection as a starting point for an evolving set of commonly accepted reusable design patterns that facilitate the development of accepted and acceptable UC applications.

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