Browsing the Internet of Things with Sentient Visors

An Attitude-Based Reasoning Strategy to Enhance Interaction with Augmented Objects

“…This paradigm opens the way to an automatic and intelligent exploitation of the information generated (i) by the objects themselves and (ii) by the user-object interaction history in order to provide services which may include physical feedback. IoT brings new capabilities, but also new challenges to overcome [2]; object information representation, user-object interaction and technologies to easily make objects smart are some of the most attractive for the research community.…”

“…The delivery of a satisfactory user experience with usercentric ubiquitous augmented services presents some technological issues to be solved [2]. In particular, it is possible that, in a near future, the digital overlay on the real world to be greatly populated by millions of digital information pieces, being resource filtering and presentation technologies extremely necessary for augmented systems.…”

“…For example, [2] contains a comprehensive analysis of IoT browsing necessities and proposes a typical augmented reality interface to monitor the status of a plant in a 'smart pot'. [5] contains a survey on how IoT may help people with disabilities.…”

“…For instance, Trinetra is a system for helping blind people (equipped with a RFID reader) to identify RFID-tagged items in a shop; once the item is recognized, the information is transferred to the smart phone, which turns the response into speech [9]. The 'smart pot' research previously mentioned [2] considers both QR-codes and RFID tags.…”

“…Equipped with special gadgets, the researches of [7] are able to determine where the user is looking at, exploiting this 'gaze tracking system' for enhancing the recommendation process. Of course, user's http://www.wikitude.com (present and past) location can be also used as an input factor for recommendation [2][5] [7].…”