Toward a Framework for Evaluating Ubiquitous Computing Applications

Although they routinely evaluate pervasive or ubiquitous computing applications, researchers have difficulty comparing results rigorously and quantitatively. The lack of a widely accepted framework for user evaluations of ubiquitous applications hampers their efforts. By proposing such a framework, we hope to help researchers compare results, create ubiquitous computing design guidelines, develop effective discount evaluation techniques, understand the appropriateness of different evaluation techniques, and develop a more complete structure so they can avoid overlooking key areas of evaluation.