It is future and you just bought your new smart house, and four different companies have different ways to interact.
- One will let you control devices using gestures or a touch panel rendered in the middle air accordingly.
- One will set several smart speakers so that you could speak your command.
- One will install an autonomous system on the house, which makes the house able to observe, interact with and support you by all devices of the house, and by rendering virtual objects or data flow as some form in the middle air, trying to satisfy your needs.
- One will introduce you an artificial intelligence virtual assistant willing to help you, who could change its appearance, access the system, exist in and migrate between devices representing itself through screens, LEDs, and speakers of the devices, or appear and move around in the middle air as necessary.
Please imagine that you are in the following situations. Which option do you feel will be most natural when using?
- Use gesture or panel in air
- Speak the command
- Interact with autonomous house
- Ask migratable assistant
(The order was more random and labels were not displayed to the participants.)
- Device 1: Turn on a lamp in front of me
- Device 2: Turn off all lights
- Device 3: Lower the lights
- Device 4: Start my car and turn on the heat and radio
- Automation 1: Open my garage for me when I drive home
- Automation 2: Be sure the door is locked and the temperature is set at 75 degrees every-time I leave the house
- Automation 3: Make sure that when I leave the house, all light and electronics are turned off and the door is locked
- Automation 4: Turn on the dishwasher when I start to get home from work so I can serve dinner immediately as I arrive
- Data 1: Check if there is any window open
- Data 2: Let me see my electricity usage in real-time
- Data 3: Set the temperature to 70 degrees
- Data Tracking 1: Track my heart rate
- Data Tracking 2: Track how long I watch TV
- Function: Fetch and read my email
- Answering/Notifying 1: Monitor the house and notify me if anything strange happens
- Answering/Notifying 2: Notify me if it's the time to leave the house to catch the bus to work
- Answering/Notifying 3: Alert me to any poor weather conditions before they arrive
- Answering/Notifying 4: Notify me how much electricity I am using so that I don't use too much
- Answering/Notifying 5: Wondering why my TV is turned on itself
- Executing 1: Book a flight
- Executing 2: Help me welcome a friend when I'm not at home
- Assisting 1: Help me decide the menu when I'm ordering my lunch at a new restaurant
- Assisting 2: Tell me a story to help me sleep
- Assisting 3: Teach me how to cook
- Assisting 4: Help me conquer a bad habit