The AmI-Solertis system: Creating user experiences in smart environments

Leonidis, Asterios; Arampatzis, Dimitrios; Louloudakis, Nikolaos; Stephanidis, Constantine

doi:10.1109/wimob.2017.8115850

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“…From an engineering perspective, the Intelligent Home’s software infrastructure is built around the microservices architecture [ 115 ]. Every component (e.g., physical artifact, digital object, smart service) exposes its functionality as a service to a collection of advanced frameworks and tools that: (i) enable residents to personalize the behavior of their surroundings in a user-friendly manner [ 116 ] and (ii) the intelligent environment to seamlessly orchestrate the operation of heterogenous systems [ 117 ]. Even the various User Interfaces are implemented using a MEAN stack architecture [ 118 ], and they expose a full-blown API to the environment (and co-located third-party components) so as to enable their external manipulation (e.g., move to a specific screen, initiate an activity with certain parameters).…”

Section: The Intelligent Home Of Ics-forthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Intelligent Home of ICS-FORTH is equipped with a sophisticated mechanism, namely AmIHomeOS, which aims to transform the house into an all-inclusive environment that assists users in a personalized manner throughout their daily activities. AmIHomeOS is based on a collection of programs, called AmI Scripts [ 117 ], which are able to (i) control any programmable artefact, (ii) exploit contextual information to make “informed” decisions, (iii) personalize the delivered content according to users’ preferences, and (iv) expose the functionality of the intelligent artefacts as a service in order to enable integration with third-party tools. In more detail, it is a collection of distributed, isolated microservices that operate autonomously, but also expose their functionality and data to be used as part of the wider ecosystem of the Intelligent Home.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Improving Stress Management and Sleep Hygiene in Intelligent Homes

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High stress levels and sleep deprivation may cause several mental or physical health issues, such as depression, impaired memory, decreased motivation, obesity, etc. The COVID-19 pandemic has produced unprecedented changes in our lives, generating significant stress, and worries about health, social isolation, employment, and finances. To this end, nowadays more than ever, it is crucial to deliver solutions that can help people to manage and control their stress, as well as to reduce sleep disturbances, so as to improve their health and overall quality of life. Technology, and in particular Ambient Intelligence Environments, can help towards that direction, when considering that they are able to understand the needs of their users, identify their behavior, learn their preferences, and act and react in their interest. This work presents two systems that have been designed and developed in the context of an Intelligent Home, namely CaLmi and HypnOS, which aim to assist users that struggle with stress and poor sleep quality, respectively. Both of the systems rely on real-time data collected by wearable devices, as well as contextual information retrieved from the ambient facilities of the Intelligent Home, so as to offer appropriate pervasive relaxation programs (CaLmi) or provide personalized insights regarding sleep hygiene (HypnOS) to the residents. This article will describe the design process that was followed, the functionality of both systems, the results of the user studies that were conducted for the evaluation of their end-user applications, and a discussion about future plans.

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Section: The Intelligent Home Of Ics-forthmentioning

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Improving Stress Management and Sleep Hygiene in Intelligent Homes

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Tsolakou

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“…The AmI-Solertis framework [90] empowers users to create behavior scenarios in AmI by delivering a scripting mechanism that can dynamically adapt the execution flow and govern the "high-level business logic" (i.e., behavior) of the intelligent environment, as well as a complete suite of tools allowing management, programming, testing, and monitoring of all the individual artifacts (i.e., services, hardware modules, software components). AmI-Solertis enables the creation of programs called AmI scripts, which constitute software agents who dictate how the technologically-enhanced environment will react in contextual stimuli (e.g., physical aspects, users, current activities) [91].…”

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ParlAmI: A Multimodal Approach for Programming Intelligent Environments

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The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and services and their integration in intelligent environments creates the need for a simple yet effective way of controlling and communicating with them. Towards such a direction, this work presents ParlAmI, a conversational framework featuring a multimodal chatbot that permits users to create simple “if-then” rules to define the behavior of an intelligent environment. ParlAmI delivers a disembodied conversational agent in the form of a messaging application named MAI, and an embodied conversational agent named nAoMI employing the programmable humanoid robot NAO. This paper describes the requirements and architecture of ParlAmI, the infrastructure of the “Intelligent Home” in which ParlAmI is deployed, the characteristics and functionality of both MAI and nAoMI, and finally presents the findings of a user experience evaluation that was conducted with the participation of sixteen users.

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“…AmI-Solertis [134] enables the fast, easy and error-free integration of external AmI artefacts (i.e., services) independently of their type (i.e., back-end, front-end, or mixed services that follow the Software-as-a-Service paradigm [135]). Moreover, it supports the creation of AmI scripts that define the behavior of the technological facilities (i.e., business logic) toward creating pervasive, intelligent, and personalized environment experiences by combining multiple components.…”

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Ambient Intelligence in the Living Room

Leonidis

Korozi

Kouroumalis

et al. 2019

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The emergence of the Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm and the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and services unveiled new potentials for the domain of domestic living, where the line between “the computer” and the (intelligent) environment becomes altogether invisible. Particularly, the residents of a house can use the living room not only as a traditional social and individual space where many activities take place, but also as a smart ecosystem that (a) enhances leisure activities by providing a rich suite of entertainment applications, (b) implements a home control middleware, (c) acts as an intervention host that is able to display appropriate content when the users need help or support, (d) behaves as an intelligent agent that communicates with the users in a natural manner and assists them throughout their daily activities, (e) presents a notification hub that provides personalized alerts according to contextual information, and (f) becomes an intermediary communication center for the family. This paper (i) describes how the “Intelligent Living Room” realizes these newly emerged roles, (ii) presents the process that was followed in order to design the living room environment, (iii) introduces the hardware and software facilities that were developed in order to improve quality of life, and (iv) reports the findings of various evaluation experiments conducted to assess the overall User Experience (UX).

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The AmI-Solertis system: Creating user experiences in smart environments

Cited by 16 publications

References 26 publications

Improving Stress Management and Sleep Hygiene in Intelligent Homes

Improving Stress Management and Sleep Hygiene in Intelligent Homes

ParlAmI: A Multimodal Approach for Programming Intelligent Environments

Ambient Intelligence in the Living Room

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