Smart furniture: improvising ubiquitous hot-spot environment

Ito, Masaki; Iwaya, A.; Saito, Midori; Nakanishi, Kazuhito; Matsumiya, Kenta; Nakazawa, Jin; Nishio, Naomichi; Takashio, Kazunori; Tokuda, Hideyuki

doi:10.1109/icdcsw.2003.1203562

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“…Embedded computers include PCs, digital Audio Video appliances, sensors, and PDAs. Some of the computers such as Smart Furniture 11) are invisible for users. Many projects have focused on this type of smart spaces.…”

Section: Smart Spacementioning

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A Flexible Modeling Engine Enabling Inter-service Management

Iwai

Tobe

Tokuda

2009

Journal of Information Processing

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A large number of embedded computers, such as network appliances and sensors, have rapidly spread out to home and office environments in the last few years. These embedded computers have enough CPU power to execute the software components that can control hardware. Managing distributed components together can enhance human activity and change the real world into a "Smart Space." We name such collaboration of components "federated service" or "application." In this paper, we have developed and evaluated a novel middleware named uBlocks which enables users to build and manage applications. uBlocks, unlike other distributed application-building middleware, is distinguished by two major features. The first is a flexible communication mechanism named RT/Dragon. RT/Dragon enables the connection of heterogeneous components. The second is the universal modeling of various distributed components to support building applications by multiple users in parallel. Additionally, to enable building applications in a simple way, we provide various user interfaces (UI) for multi-modal visualization: 2D/3D User Interface, and a web interface. These features lead to reduce the cost of building and managing distributed applications by the user. This research proves that the idea of building applications by users is practical and effective.

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Section: Smart Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

A Flexible Modeling Engine Enabling Inter-service Management

Iwai

Tobe

Tokuda

2009

Journal of Information Processing

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“…Smart Hot-Spot project (see below) has a couple of relatively simple scenarios, which show use of smart furniture in daily life, one in the home and one at a train station (Ito et al, 2003).…”

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The dark side of ambient intelligence

Wright¹

2005

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“…The iPhone in John's pocket acknowledges his arrival at the office by the background noise and enables him to receive work calls (Subbu et al, 2009). He receives a call from his boss and decides to answer it using a nearby video-phone in his office (Ito et al, 2003). John is asked to immediately organize a meeting with his employees.…”

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Human well-being and flowing work in an intelligent work environment

Reijula

Gröhn

Müller

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Intelligent Buildings International

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The modern working environment is gradually developing towards a more 'intelligent' one, which means remarkable technological, architectural, psychosocial and medical innovations. This article defines the concept of an intelligent work environment and evaluates its meaning from a user's perspective. The authors briefly discuss the history of the intelligent environment and take a multi-professional approach to foresee the possibilities and challenges awaiting future users of intelligent working environments: they stress the importance of accessibility and ergonomics when designing intelligent work environments of the future. In addition, multimodal and architectural aspects of the intelligent working environment are closely examined.

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Smart furniture: improvising ubiquitous hot-spot environment

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Cited by 16 publications

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A Flexible Modeling Engine Enabling Inter-service Management

A Flexible Modeling Engine Enabling Inter-service Management

The dark side of ambient intelligence

Human well-being and flowing work in an intelligent work environment

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