Tap to Interact: Towards Dynamically Remixing the Internet of Things

Carlson, Darren; Pagel, Max

doi:10.4108/icst.mobiquitous.2014.258014

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“…To counter this complexity, we recently developed an approach called Tap To Interact [26], which provides a more physical mode of selection, whereby users equip their smart devices or spaces with NFC tags or 2D barcodes. This is an easily achievable task for most devices, since 2D Barcodes can be printed out and NFC tags are readily available.…”

Section: B Smart Device Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A plug-in developer can also provide a plug-in with custom translator implementations and use them without the need to recompile the AC library or Dynamix. To showcase the potential of the Ambient Control approach, we developed a demonstration called Tap to Interact (T2I), which was implemented as a Dynamix application that utilizes the features of the previously introduced AC library [26]. The T2I application enables users to tap mutually incompatible Smart Devices with a Dynamix-enabled smart-phone in order to wire them together in interesting and potentially unforeseen ways.…”

Section: E Translatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ambient Control: A mobile framework for dynamically remixing the Internet of Things

Pagel

Carlson

2015

2015 IEEE 16th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)

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The number of networked smart devices available in everyday environments is rapidly increasing; however, many current devices adopt mutually incompatible networks, protocols, and application programming interfaces. As such, creating mobile applications that dynamically discover and integrate ambient functionality across multiple vertical markets remains challenging. In this paper, we introduce a novel middleware framework, called Ambient Control, which enables commodity mobile devices (e.g., smart-phones) to dynamically mediate control messaging between incompatible smart devices situated in the user's environment. Ambient Control enables a variety of control capabilities and protocol translation services to be dynamically installed into a user's mobile device on-demand using plug-ins. The approach also features an intuitive "Tap to Interact" workflow that allows a user to tap nearby smart devices with a smart-phone to install required interaction plug-ins and automatically "wire" them together in interesting and potentially unforeseen ways. In this paper, we present a detailed overview of the Ambient Control framework, introduce our fully functional prototype, and present an evaluation indicating that the prototype provides efficient messaging performance and imposes low processing and memory overhead, making it suitable for deployment on many commodity mobile devices.

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Section: B Smart Device Selectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: E Translatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ambient Control: A mobile framework for dynamically remixing the Internet of Things

Pagel

Carlson

2015

2015 IEEE 16th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM)

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“…Technology as a form of entertainment has been increasing its presence, to the point that is has become a prolific industry that constantly generates new products and services. [2][3][4][5]. In all cases though, a component is "fun": Remote dial control, a programmable robot, iPad joystick for games, etc [6].…”

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Sphero as an interactive tool in computer games for people with ID

Zorrilla

Garcia‐Zapirain

Eskubi-Astobiza

et al. 2015

2015 Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Multimedia, Educational and Serious Games (CGAMES)

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This paper presents an experiment in which people with intellectual disabilities played 3 apps with different levels and purposes on an iPad Air. As part of the game they were required to interact with Sphero and the activities they tried to perform required motor skills, attention and memory. We have selected two groups of participants according to their level of support needs. The results show the highest level of satisfaction in both groups in the game involving Sphero. In terms of effectiveness of activities for this profile of participant as interventions the results reveal that driving and care activities do show an adequate response, though with worse results related to memory.

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