Authors:
Michael Zaki
and
Peter Forbrig
Affiliation:
Rostock University, Germany
Keyword(s):
Smart Meeting Room, Explicit Interaction, Implicit Interaction, Assistive User Interface, Task Model, Dialog Graph, Activity Pattern, HCI Pattern, User Profile.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Ambient Intelligence
;
Applications and Services
;
Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
;
Context
;
Context-Aware Applications
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Human and Computer Interaction
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Mobile and Pervasive Computing
;
Paradigm Trends
;
Software Engineering
;
Telecommunications
;
Ubiquitous Computing Systems and Services
Abstract:
Nowadays smart environments are gaining special attention among the various ubiquitous computing environment
types. The main tenet of a given smart environment is to deliver proper assistance to the resident users
while performing their daily life tasks. The environment aims to implicitly infer the user’s intention and based
on that information, it offers the optimal feasible assistance which helps the user performing his/her task. Task models seem to be a convenient starting point for developing applications for those environments, as they give the developer the opportunity to focus on the user tasks to be assisted. Already existing approaches offer solutions to make the transition between task models and the final user interfaces. However, smart environments are dynamic environments in which the inclusion of new user or device types is probable. Consequently, an optimal application to be operated in such an environment is required to consider the extensibility aspect within its des
ign. Additionally, the implicit interaction technique has to be taken into account. Thus, in this paper we provide an attempt to include the implicit interaction paradigm within the design of our application as well as to ensure the extensibility needed to encounter the variation of the surrounding environmental settings.
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