The fridge gate

Augmenting Fridge Magnets

In this paper, we describe a number of augmented fridge magnet concepts that support (i) organization and planning in households; (ii) reminding; and (iii) methods household members use to assign ownership to particular tasks, activities and artifacts. These concepts are shown to be derived from field investigations into everyday fridge use in home settings and specifically the interactional pr...

Bose-Einstein Condensate from the Fridge

The Fridge: internal communications at the State Library of Victoria

Eighteen months ago, and prior to the launch of its redeveloped Intranet, the State Library of Victoria revolutionised its internal communications with the introduction of The Fridge – a new, online, daily news service. A small icon – in the shape of a fridge – was posted on the desktop of every Library staff member. Staff were invited to click on the icon at any time, every day. When they did ...

CloudFridge: A Testbed for Smart Fridge Interactions

We present a testbed for exploring novel smart refrigerator interactions, and identify three key adoption-limiting interaction shortcomings of state-of-the-art smart fridges: lack of 1) user experience focus, 2) low-intrusion object recognition and 2) automatic item position detection. Our testbed system addresses these limitations by a combination of sensors, software filters, architectural co...

FRIDGE: an interactive code generation environment for HW/SW codesign

Digital mobile systems are sensitive to power consumption, chip size and costs. Therefore they are realized using xed-point architectures, either dedicated HW or xed-point processors. On the other hand, system design starts from a oating-point description. These requirements have been the motivation for FRIDGE , a design environment for the speci cation, evaluation and implementation of xed-poi...