Service Composition and Advanced User Interfaces in the Home of Tomorrow: The SM4All Approach

Catarci, Tiziana; Ciccio, Claudio Di; Forte, Vincenzo; Iacomussi, Ettore; Mecella, Massimo; Santucci, Giuseppe; Tino, Giuseppe

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23902-1_2

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“…The basic module of the user layer is the Abstract Adaptive Interface (AAI) [Catarci et al 2011], which acts as a proxy that provides services to the particular user interface. Through a unique adaptable algorithm, the AAI is able to manage many different user interface models, such as a touch screen or a BCI, by changing its behavior on the basis of the concrete UI characteristics.…”

Section: The User Layermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Coordinating the web of services for a smart home

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Domotics, concerned with the realization of intelligent home environments, is a novel field which can highly benefit from solutions inspired by service-oriented principles to enhance the convenience and security of modern home residents. In this work, we present an architecture for a smart home, starting from the lower device interconnectivity level up to the higher application layers that undertake the load of complex functionalities and provide a number of services to end-users. We claim that in order for smart homes to exhibit a genuinely intelligent behavior, the ability to compute compositions of individual devices automatically and dynamically is paramount. To this end, we incorporate into the architecture a composition component that employs artificial intelligence domain-independent planning to generate compositions at runtime, in a constantly evolving environment. We have implemented a fully working prototype that realizes such an architecture, and have evaluated it both in terms of performance as well as from the end-user point of view. The results of the evaluation show that the service-oriented architectural design and the support for dynamic compositions is quite efficient from the technical point of view, and that the system succeeds in satisfying the expectations and objectives of the users.

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Section: The User Layermentioning

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“…The Abstract Adaptive Interface (AAI) [Catarci et al 2011] is registered as a client of the server on top of the OSGi framework, and whatever commands are issued via the concrete UIs are passed through it to the lower levels of the architecture. Its implementation is based on Apache Tomcat and Apache Axis.…”

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“…Because of its service‐based architecture, PLaTHEA has been initially employed as a localization system in the SM4All European project final demo (October 2011) and since then in some other EU and Italian projects.…”

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“…The synchronous and asynchronous DPWS interfaces used in PLaTHEA. been developed by employing the Java Multi Edition DPWS Stack (in short JMEDS, available at http://ws4d.e-technik.uni-rostock.de/jmeds/).Because of its service-based architecture, PLaTHEA has been initially employed as a localization system in the SM4All European project[34] final demo (October 2011) and since then in some other EU and Italian projects.…”

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PLaTHEA: a marker‐less people localization and tracking system for home automation

Leotta

Mecella

2014

Softw Pract Exp

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SummaryCurrent smart spaces require more and more sophisticated sensors able to acquire the state of the environment in order to provide advanced and customized services. Among the most important environmental variables, locations of users and their identities represent a primary concern for smart home applications. Despite some years of investigation in indoor positioning, the availability of systems designed as components pluggable into complex home automation platforms is limited. We present People Localization and Tracking for HomE Automation (PLaTHEA), a vision‐based indoor localization system specifically tailored for Ambient Assisted Living applications. PLaTHEA features a novel technique to acquire a stereo video stream from a couple of independent (and not synchronized) network‐attached cameras, thus easing its physical deployment. The input stream is processed by integrating well‐known techniques with a novel tracking approach targeted to indoor spaces. The system has a modular architecture that offers clear interfaces exposed as Web services, and it can run on off‐the‐shelf and cheap hardware (both in terms of sensing devices and computing units). We evaluated PLaTHEA in real usage conditions and reported the measured performance in terms of precision and accuracy. Low light, crowded and large monitored environments might slightly decrease the performance of the system; nevertheless, the results here presented show that it is perfectly suitable to be employed in the typical domestic day‐to‐day life settings. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…A pagination of the information, though useful and indeed exploited in many prototypes, is not sufficient to provide an effective interaction, since it would introduce a huge effort for the user to find the desired element among the big amount of items, navigating back and forth. Hence, in SM4All, the Abstract Adaptive Interface (AAI) integrates a mechanism for grouping and smartly ordering the icons in order to improve the ease of interaction [5]. An icon may represent either a service or an action.…”

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Smart homes to improve the quality of life for all

Aiello

Aloise

Baldoni

et al. 2011

2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

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Abstract-A home is smart when, being aware of its own state and that of its users, is capable of controlling itself in order to support the user wishes and thus improving their quality of life. This holds both for users with special needs and for those with ordinary domestic needs. In this paper, we overview the Smart Homes for All project which represents the current state of the art with respect to software control and user interfaces in the smart homes arena.

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Service Composition and Advanced User Interfaces in the Home of Tomorrow: The SM4All Approach

Cited by 10 publications

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Coordinating the web of services for a smart home

Coordinating the web of services for a smart home

PLaTHEA: a marker‐less people localization and tracking system for home automation

Smart homes to improve the quality of life for all

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