Ji Eun Kim, George Boulos, John Yackovich, Tassilo Barth, Christian Beckel, D. Mossé
{"title":"Seamless Integration of Heterogeneous Devices and Access Control in Smart Homes","authors":"Ji Eun Kim, George Boulos, John Yackovich, Tassilo Barth, Christian Beckel, D. Mossé","doi":"10.1080/17508975.2015.1018116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17508975.2015.1018116","url":null,"abstract":"The recent trend of ubiquitous access to embedded physical devices over the Internet as well as increasing penetration of wireless protocols such as ZigBee has raised attention to smart homes. These systems consist of sensors, devices and smart appliances that can be monitored and controlled remotely by human users and cloud services. However, the lack of a de facto communication standard for smart homes creates a barrier against the interoperability of devices from different vendors. We address this challenge by proposing a holistic, extensible software architecture that seamlessly integrates heterogeneous protocol- and vendor-specific devices and services, while making these services securely available over the Internet. Our architecture is developed on top of the OSGi framework and incorporates a semantic model of a smart home system. As a result, we achieve semantic interoperability - the ability to integrate new applications and drivers into the deployed system during runtime. Furthermore, we integrate a new access control model for specific smart home scenarios. As a proof of our concept, we demonstrate the seamless semantic discovery of home devices at runtime by integrating several protocols including X10, Insteon, ZigBee and UPnP into a real test. Using smart phones and cloud services together with our home gateway implementation, we further demonstrate the ease of integration of new applications and drivers.","PeriodicalId":156841,"journal":{"name":"2012 Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114431286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Probabilistic Graphical Models and Their Applications in Intelligent Environments","authors":"L. Sucar","doi":"10.1109/IE.2012.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2012.66","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent environments need to acquire, combine and interpret the user's requests and take the best decisions according to the user needs. Thus, they require intelligent agents that reason under uncertainty to achieve the system goals. Probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) allow intelligent agents to reason and take optimal decisions under uncertainty, in an effective and efficient way. We present an overview of PGMs and describe two applications for intelligent environments: (i) information validation, (ii) adaptation to the user.","PeriodicalId":156841,"journal":{"name":"2012 Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115206105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Fernández-Caballero, M. Sokolova, Juan Serrano-Cuerda, J. C. Castillo, Verónica Moreno, Rodrigo Castiñeira, Luis Redondo
{"title":"HOLDS: Efficient Fall Detection through Accelerometers and Computer Vision","authors":"A. Fernández-Caballero, M. Sokolova, Juan Serrano-Cuerda, J. C. Castillo, Verónica Moreno, Rodrigo Castiñeira, Luis Redondo","doi":"10.1109/IE.2012.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2012.11","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces the technical description of ICT R&D project Fall Detection -- HOLDS. The purpose of this project is to quickly assist elderly people or people who have a cognitive or motor disability when they suffer a fall at outdoor and indoor spaces. The project is aimed at enhancing the safety of these target groups and allows the elderly and impaired to carry out a more normal lifestyle. The HOLDS project is based on currently rising technologies, namely wireless sensors & actuators networks (WSAN) combined with advanced image processing. The HOLDS system comprises two subsystems, accelerometer-based fall detection and computer-vision-based (visible and infrared) fall detection, which are collected in a central system.","PeriodicalId":156841,"journal":{"name":"2012 Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129314661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Silicon Architectures for Embedded IE Control Networking","authors":"K. Prettyjohns","doi":"10.1109/IE.2012.68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2012.68","url":null,"abstract":"Summary form only given. As IE networks become ubiquitous, they inevitably become involved in more mission-critical applications. These applications, for example in industrial automation and building control, have real-time and high availability requirements. This paper describes one approach to address these concerns.","PeriodicalId":156841,"journal":{"name":"2012 Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128469944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Virtual Maze: A Game to Promote Social Interaction between Children","authors":"F. Martínez-Reyes, Israel Hernández-Santana","doi":"10.1109/IE.2012.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2012.42","url":null,"abstract":"Virtual Reality (VR) has gained its own niche in educational contexts, there is some evidence that Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) can motivate students and enhance learning processes effectively. Application scenarios range from avatar-based to distributed telepresence solutions and from immersive interfaces to technology augmented settings. Most of the application scenarios for VLEs are for learning and training contexts. Although it seems there is some interest, few works explore how VLEs could promote social interactions in educational settings, especially for early childhood education. In this paper we present the ongoing work with the \"Virtual Maze\", a virtual labyrinth that seeks to offer a technology augmented setting where children can play, and through which computer-based teamwork can be encouraged.","PeriodicalId":156841,"journal":{"name":"2012 Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114635956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Attanayake, Eckhard Pflügel, G. Hunter, J. Denholm-Price
{"title":"SWIMS (Speech-Based Web Interface for Mathematics Using Statistical Language Models): An Intelligent Editing Assistant for Mathematical Text","authors":"D. Attanayake, Eckhard Pflügel, G. Hunter, J. Denholm-Price","doi":"10.1109/IE.2012.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2012.41","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the development and evaluation of an intelligent web-based interface for editing mathematical text that assists the user with the aid of the predictive and corrective power of statistical language models. It offers options for predicting what will appear next (analogous to predictive text for SMS messages) and identifying likely errors due to simple mistakes on the user's part in order to assist in correcting the errors. Using text-stream input, we investigate the utility of the error identification by studying the proportion of times the correct version of the complete mathematical expression appears within the M most likely alternatives suggested by our system. We aim to integrate these facilities into our existing Talk Maths system.","PeriodicalId":156841,"journal":{"name":"2012 Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131116485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. H. G. Valdivia, A. Blanco-Ortega, Enrique Quintero-Marmol-Marquez, M. Oliver-Salazar
{"title":"Development of a Biped Robot Based on Dynamic Walking: Design, Simulation and Construction","authors":"C. H. G. Valdivia, A. Blanco-Ortega, Enrique Quintero-Marmol-Marquez, M. Oliver-Salazar","doi":"10.1109/IE.2012.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2012.20","url":null,"abstract":"In this research project we present the design and construction of a biped robot based on dynamic walking. The main objective of this research is the assimilation of technology in the field of dynamic walking robots, therefore, we built a prototype based on a previously built robot developed at Delft University created by Martjin Wisse. The reason for performing this research is to have a starting point in the development of bipedal robots and human prostheses. The robot was built under a mechatronic approach, i.e. with a synergical relationship between the mechanical, electronics and programming constituent parts. The prototype performes dynamic walking analogous to the locomotion of humans. It was concluded that these technologies can be used for the design, simulation and construction of dynamic walking robots.","PeriodicalId":156841,"journal":{"name":"2012 Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134094357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Speech Interaction with the Internet -- A User Study","authors":"H. Hofmann, U. Ehrlich, A. Berton, W. Minker","doi":"10.1109/IE.2012.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2012.14","url":null,"abstract":"The arrival of smart phones significantly impacts the automotive environment. People tend to use their mobile Internet connection manually while driving which distracts and endangers the driver's safety. In order to reduce driver distraction a speech based interface to Internet services is essential. However, before developing a speech dialog system in a new domain, a data collection from real users is needed. In this report, a web-based user study is conducted, which aims at getting knowledge about how users would interact with Internet services by speech. The user study was separated in a questionnaire and audio recordings based on graphically depicted scenarios the subjects had to solve orally. The results show that the users are willing to use and trust in speech dialog systems. The speaking styles occurring in the audio data were classified into natural, command and keyword style. The occurrence differed depending on the web task category whereas natural speaking style was most frequently used by the subjects.","PeriodicalId":156841,"journal":{"name":"2012 Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128225920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Blanco-Ortega, Enrique Quintero-Marmol-Marquez, G. V. Valdés, G. L. López, H. R. A. Rivera
{"title":"Control of a Virtual Prototype for Ankle Rehabilitation","authors":"A. Blanco-Ortega, Enrique Quintero-Marmol-Marquez, G. V. Valdés, G. L. López, H. R. A. Rivera","doi":"10.1109/IE.2012.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2012.43","url":null,"abstract":"Humans being subject to traumatic accidents which cause they cannot carry out activities of daily living. When a muscle is not used or gets weak, it tends to shorten, the joints become stiff, causing deformities or contractures and without a physical therapy lose their aptitudes. Ankle rehabilitation systems have been proposed to achieve the full range of motion and stretching smoothly the muscles and tendons. In this paper we propose a virtual prototype of an ankle rehabilitation machine which provides the whole range of ankle related foot movements. The controllers are designed with trajectory tracking task to provide smooth movements of rehabilitation in a single motion or the combination of two movements. Some simulation results using the mathematical model are presented and compared with the obtained from the virtual prototype simulated under the ADAMS environment.","PeriodicalId":156841,"journal":{"name":"2012 Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133911835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Salomons, W. Teeuw, Henk van Leeuwen, P. Havinga
{"title":"Persona-Based Adaptation in a Smart Green Home","authors":"E. Salomons, W. Teeuw, Henk van Leeuwen, P. Havinga","doi":"10.1109/IE.2012.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2012.23","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present the vision of the Go Green project on a smart home that is capable of decreasing energy consumption while at the same time increasing user comfort. To identify the main challenges we introduce a general model for intelligent homes that describes the current state, the target state and the transition. A key point in the project's vision is the concept of personas and entities to model groups of individuals and their preferences. A second key point is the strategy of coaching the users towards the global system goals by adapting the environment.","PeriodicalId":156841,"journal":{"name":"2012 Eighth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114433472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}