INTERACTING WITH THE CONNECTED HOME

摘要

Watching television used to be simple and relaxing.As the complexity of entertainment devices and contentoptions grow, interacting with today’s home entertainmentsystem is becoming increasingly challenging. With theaddition of home control capabilities, many users can feelintimidated and overwhelmed. At Universal Electronics, wehave made it our mission to understand the usabilitychallenges faced by consumers and to provide innovativesystem solutions to improve the user experience.Taking a high level overview of user interface options forhome entertainment and control systems, we can arrive at twoUI main paradigms through which the user can interact withthe system – visual and voice. In order to interact withgraphical or voice-based UIs, the user also needs theappropriate input device. The input device can be a remotecontrol, keyboard, control accessory or second-screen smartdevice. The purpose of this study is to outline the pros andcons of existing systems, and provide designrecommendations as to how to best integrate input deviceswith UIs.