Understanding Challenges in Designing Interactions for the Age of Ambient Media

Abstract. This work builds on the existing knowledge, experience, and practices for designing interactive systems while it tries to develop an un-derstanding of technologies and techniques that are most suited for inter-acting with ambient media. There are many computing trends emerging today ranging from desktop or mainframe scenarios up to mobile so-lutions and ubiquitous computing preferred by on-the-run consumers. Developments in processing and communication technology have been accompanied by new interactive devices and techniques needed to pro-vide usability and make such technology advancements available and accessible for end users. We discuss in this work current practices for in-teracting with ambient technology with a special focus on using mobile devices and natural gestures for interfacing public ambient displays