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Interaction Guidelines for Personal Voice Assistants in Smart Homes

Tamino Huxohl, Marian Pohling, Birte Carlmeyer, Britta Wrede, Thomas Hermann
2019 2019 International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD)  
of smart home control.  ...  towards smooth interaction with smart homes.  ...  ACKNOWLEDGMENT This work was funded as part of the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology 'CITEC' (EXC 277), Bielefeld University.  ... 
doi:10.1109/sped.2019.8906642 dblp:conf/sped/HuxohlPCW019 fatcat:ltesjbjzencvddfnkha3vnv42i

Designing Smart Home Technology for Fall Prevention in Older People [chapter]

Ather Nawaz, Jorunn L. Helbostad, Nina Skjæret, Beatrix Vereijken, Alan Bourke, Yngve Dahl, Sabato Mellone
2014 Communications in Computer and Information Science  
Smart home technology could be of importance in this context, but the technology has to be user-centred or adapted to be useful in this particular context.  ...  The study demonstrated the need for user-centred interfaces for older people in the context of falls prevention.  ...  FARSEEING aims to promote better prediction, identification and prevention of falls with focus on ICT devices.  ... 
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07854-0_84 fatcat:2f3sgje7dzfyhm4hnsmvcxewfm

SMILA: Design and Evaluation of a Smart Mirror for Monitoring Health

Karl Kreiner, Christian Löw, Svenja Schroeder, Markus Falgenhauer, Kristina Reiter, Kurt Edegger
2018 Zenodo  
While usage of Internet and smart phones is generally increasing in elderly people, there is still a digital divide between younger and older users making usability a key aspect of telehealth intervention  ...  We present the design, construction, user identification using wrist-bands and linkage of the mirror to a telehealth service based on the Internet of Things mediation framework symbIoTe.  ...  The use of smart mirrors in a health context is interesting as people use a mirror on a daily basis.  ... 
doi:10.5281/zenodo.2572696 fatcat:s5326gjhlverteon7fiyv2whz4

An OSGi-based infrastructure for context-aware multimedia services

Zhiwen Yu, Xingshe Zhou, Zhiyong Yu, Daqing Zhang, Chung-Yau Chin
2006 IEEE Communications Magazine  
This article proposes an OSGi-based infrastructure for context-aware multimedia services in a smart home environment.  ...  We envisage the OSGi-based infrastructure to fill the niche of three gateways in a smart home: network connecting, context provisioning, and multimedia personalizing.  ...  This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation of China (no. 60573161) and the Doctorate Foundation of Northwestern Polytechnical University of China (no. CX200417).  ... 
doi:10.1109/mcom.2006.1710425 fatcat:h4rm2c3w65ht7o2kf76v5feqyi

Internet of Things Based on Situation-Awareness for Energy Efficiency

Un Hee Schiefelbein, Diovane Soligo, Vinícius Maran, José Palazzo M. De Oliveira, João Carlos Damasceno Lima, Alencar Machado
2019 iSys  
This work presents a solution based on the use of situation-awareness applied in IOT that helps the users to reduce the consumption of electric energy through its own residence.  ...  The practical results obtained in the application of this proposal in a real-live scenario confirmed the option of collecting information directly of electrical appliances and inform the user of their  ...  From the identification of these situations, the application acts or alerts the user, presenting feedback on these expenses and then the user can take some decision about the situation, such as turning  ... 
doi:10.5753/isys.2019.382 fatcat:boyr6d6hpfd5zlpwaf2z3wrsdm

Toward Building Safer Smart Homes for the People with Disabilities [article]

Shahinur Alam, Md Sultan Mahmud, Mohammed Yeasin
2020 arXiv   pre-print
In this paper, we present a dialog enabled end-to-end assistive solution called "SafeAccess" to build a safer smart home by providing situational awareness.  ...  The key functions of SafeAccess are: - 1) monitoring homes and identifying incoming persons; 2) helping users in assessing incoming threats (e.g., burglary, robbery, gun violence); and, 3) allowing users  ...  A demo for creating a personal profile is available at link 6 Prototype for Smart Door One of the vital components of a smart home is a safe and secure door with a smart lock.  ... 
arXiv:2006.05907v1 fatcat:5bvro6eozbehrmwi3vqieweqde

Preliminary Study of Adaptive Decision-Making System for Vocal Command in Smart Home

Alexis Brenon, Francois Portet, Michel Vacher
2016 2016 12th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE)  
In smart homes, prediction and decision are often defined a priori and require tuning from the user, which can be tedious, and complex.  ...  However, these smart homes have the ability to analyze the user behavior and to modify their decisions automatically.  ...  The objective of this experiment was to test a smart controller [14] in real situations corresponding to voice commands spoken by the user.  ... 
doi:10.1109/ie.2016.49 dblp:conf/intenv/BrenonPV16 fatcat:vi2n4s2vhbb7hkz23gevshjl6a

Towards European Portuguese Conversational Assistants for Smart Homes

Maksym Ketsmur, António Teixeira, Nuno Almeida, Samuel Silva, Michael Wagner
2019 Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies  
In this context, a Smart Home Assistant capable of conversation and device integration can be a valuable help to the inhabitants, not only for smart device control, but also to obtain valuable information  ...  The development has been made in the scope of Smart Green Homes (SGH) project.  ...  First Evaluation Method The main goal of the first evaluation with real users was to identify the strongest and weakest points of the first proof-of-concept version of the proposed Smart Home Conversational  ... 
doi:10.4230/oasics.slate.2019.5 dblp:conf/slate/KetsmurTA019 fatcat:jvle46rmgjeqlentxkpe6ncmja

A Survey on Smart Meeting Rooms and Open Issues

Carlos Filipe Freitas, João Barroso, Carlos Ramos
2015 International Journal of Smart Home  
Groups exchange ideas or engage in a process of argumentation and counter-argumentation, negotiate, cooperate, collaborate or even discuss techniques and/or methodologies for problem solving.  ...  We also present the features and evaluation methods present in literature and we make a discussion on the open issues.  ...  Acknowledgements This work was co-supported by FEDER Funds through the "Programa Operacional Factores de Competitividade -COMPETE" program and by National International Journal of Smart Home Vol. 9, No  ... 
doi:10.14257/ijsh.2015.9.9.02 fatcat:qqrpyqdl4vfexlkqdflsyqgs2i

Towards Active Learning Interfaces for Multi-Inhabitant Activity Recognition

Claudio Bettini, Gabriele Civitarese
2020 2020 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)  
In this paper, we investigate this and more questions on this topic, proposing a preliminary study of the requirements of an active learning interface for multi-inhabitant settings.  ...  While active learning has been mostly proposed in single-inhabitant settings, several questions arise when such a system has to be implemented in a realistic environment with multiple users.  ...  The main requirements of a smart-home interface are usability and acceptability [11] . In this direction, the work in [12] compared different smart-home interfaces modalities.  ... 
doi:10.1109/percomworkshops48775.2020.9156075 dblp:conf/percom/BettiniC20 fatcat:oydg32abyvcfrikjamgc57mbie

A 3-layer architecture for smart environment models

Grzegorz Lehmann, Andreas Rieger, Marco Blumendorf, Sahin Albayrak
2010 2010 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops)  
Developers of applications for smart environments must cope with a multitude of sensors, devices, users and thus contexts.  ...  The presented approach supports runtime user interface adaption and reconfiguration for seamless interaction and has been successfully utilized to build several context-adaptive applications running in  ...  Their work focuses on the usage of human feedback for refining initial situation models during runtime in order to improve the reliability of detected situations.  ... 
doi:10.1109/percomw.2010.5470513 dblp:conf/percom/LehmannRBA10 fatcat:s4xnsdlq4regfahj44tnwuuz54

An Application Framework for a Situation-Aware System Support for Smart Spaces [chapter]

Arlindo Santos, Helena Rodrigues
2009 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
This research work aims at investigating such a model and evaluating the concept of situation-aware system support for smart spaces.  ...  We are investigating a situation-aware system support for smart spaces that builds on a new set of assumptions and design principles, based on user-controlled associations between global services and local  ...  This research work aims at investigating such a model and evaluating the concept of situation-aware system support for smart spaces.  ... 
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-05290-3_98 fatcat:mgwskp5a4ff7lgtohqudqvlady

The SandS Ecosystem, a True Instance of WEB4.0
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APOLLONI B, MLAKAR I, LIPAJ A, GALLIANI GL
2015 International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering  
The user asks the social network for a task to be executed by his appliance (for instance, washing three kilos of woollen coloured laundry), the network, in the role of an electronic super-mom, sends directly  ...  to the washing machine an optimal sequence of commands the recipes (such as: warm the water at 34°, soak for 57 minutes, etc.) to execute the task in a way that matches the user preferences, possibly  ...  For instance in Smart Kitchen forAmbient Assisted Living [8] a novel design of smart kitchen incorporating AAL services is introduced.  ... 
doi:10.15680/ijircce.2015.0310152 fatcat:77kcvfrdd5h7bftik43bvmwan4

An Agent-based Approach for Adapting the Behavior of a Smart Home Environment

Davide Cavone, Berardina De Carolis, Stefano Ferilli, Nicole Novielli
2011 Workshop From Objects to Agents  
In this paper we propose an agent-based approach for controlling the behavior of a Smart Home Environment that, based on the recognized situation and user goal, selects a suitable workflow for combining  ...  To this aim we have developed a butler agent that employs user and context modeling for supporting proactive adaptation of the interaction with the house.  ...  Identification of the specific case should be obtained by an analysis of the user's feedback, and introduces a related issue, that is who is in charge of identifying the problem, gathering the feedback  ... 
dblp:conf/woa/CavoneCFN11 fatcat:efxrb6uvc5egrilmvr4bei4fpe

Algorithm of Context Inconsistency Elimination Based on Feedback Windowing and Evidence Theory for Smart Home

Hongji Xu, Zhigang Xie, Leitao Wang
2014 Open Automation and Control Systems Journal  
To solve this problem, an algorithm of context inconsistency elimination which is based on feedback windowing and evidence theory is proposed in this paper and can be applied in many scenarios, like smart  ...  home.  ...  SIMULATIONS AND ANALYSIS The proposed algorithm in this paper is suitable for different context-aware occasions in smart home, such as identity recognition, identification of user status, adjustment of  ... 
doi:10.2174/1874444301406010637 fatcat:g7ykgcdyx5afxk3kgwoyoleegi
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