F. Nothdurft, G. Bertrand, Tobias Heinroth, W. Minker
{"title":"GEEDI - Guards for Emotional and Explanatory DIalogues","authors":"F. Nothdurft, G. Bertrand, Tobias Heinroth, W. Minker","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.24","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we describe the development of a dialogue model that integrates emotional dialogue strategies and explanations in a simple hence powerful way. As intelligent environments make inroads into the market, the need for user-friendly interaction with these systems grows. Pro-active reaction to user knowledge and emotions is one of the key points in user-friendly adaption of dialogue systems and therefore one of the main topics of research. As intelligent environments grow in complexity and field of application, the knowledge requirements for the user grow as well. Therefore it is vitally important to impart knowledge and information in an emotionally sensitive and user-aware way. In our dialog model we consider the natural structure of a nontrivial dialogue as a structure divided into several goals. These goals are protected by so called guards which represent preconditions which have to be fulfilled in order to tackle the related goal.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115561367","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}
Pablo Rangel, José G. Carvalho Junior, M. Ramirez, J. Souza
{"title":"Context Reasoning through a Multiple Logic Framework","authors":"Pablo Rangel, José G. Carvalho Junior, M. Ramirez, J. Souza","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.29","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents an implemented framework called Real Time Multi Logic Reasoner (RT-MLR) that aims to help a development of context-aware systems. RT-MLR has been designed combining the rule based method with the regular object-oriented architecture. RT-MLR has an inference engine that allows to express and merge knowledge through rules in three logic types: First-Order Logic, Fuzzy Logic and Temporal Logic. This engine works based on an event based approach, which supports a continuous monitoring of system domain. RTMLR has been exemplified base on its capability to perform context reasoning in a military application according to data fusion approach.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130700923","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}
Aung Aung Phyo Wai, W. Huang, V. Fook, J. Biswas, C. Hsia, K. Liou
{"title":"Situation-Aware Patient Monitoring in and around the Bed Using Multimodal Sensing Intelligence","authors":"Aung Aung Phyo Wai, W. Huang, V. Fook, J. Biswas, C. Hsia, K. Liou","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.31","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the physical and mental impairments, frail elderly have to stay in the bed most of their time. So, serious health issues and physical injuries can occur to them if dangerous events and situations around the bed are not known in advance. This paper proposes continuous patient monitoring with situation awareness using multimodality sensors to recognize such dangerous events in and around the bed. With multimodal sensing intelligence, various contexts and situations of those bedridden elderly can be determined. By incorporating personalization and medical domain knowledge into detected events and activities, dangerous events can be recognized immediately. Then, timely intervention can be provided to the elderly with potential fall risks. So our solution supports situation aware patient monitoring and provides desirable personalized care at the institutions enabling to prevent potential health and well-being problems in and around the bed.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133595619","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":"Looking Back in Wonder: How Self-Monitoring Technologies Can Help Us Better Understand Ourselves","authors":"D. Pavel, V. Callaghan, A. Dey","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.59","url":null,"abstract":"As computing devices become more pervasive, our daily activities start generating a vast amount of information that could be exploited for helping us better understand ourselves. In this paper we present a system that uses easily available data correlated into a story-based representation aimed at providing users with a better understanding of their lifestyles. While this is still work in progress, we believe that it provides valuable insights into the design of such systems. Our initial findings show that user data generated through a person’s daily activities can reveal a wealth of valuable information which they can use to adjust and improve their lifestyles.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"483 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134405229","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":"Automatic Analysis of Geotagged Photos for Intelligent Tourist Services","authors":"M. Mamei, A. Rosi, F. Zambonelli","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.34","url":null,"abstract":"Web communities are making available an increasing volume of free, fresh, detailed and powerful information about living people. Among them, the Flickr photo-sharing service offers to researchers a database of several millions of geotagged pictures from users all around the world. Working on that opens the door to the study of meaningful mobility data, where title and description of a geotagged picture represent a mine from which extract labels to detect places and events, and useful information about user trends, behaviors and tastes. Our approach goes in the direction of developing an intelligence and unattended system able to extract and take advantage of up-to-date and spontaneous information embedded with pictures, making cities intelligent and able to reach user expectations. Such system, learning from past touristic user experiences, could make customized recommendations on “where to go”, and “what to see”, to people going to visit touristic places for the first time.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":" 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113947223","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}
Verena Majuntke, Gregor Schiele, Kai Spohrer, M. Handte, C. Becker
{"title":"A Coordination Framework for Pervasive Applications in Multi-user Environments","authors":"Verena Majuntke, Gregor Schiele, Kai Spohrer, M. Handte, C. Becker","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.40","url":null,"abstract":"Pervasive applications have been designed to support users in their everyday life. For this purpose, they are able to interact with their physical environment, their context. They are aware of their context and use this information for configuration decisions. Furthermore, they can actively modify the context to meet their user’s needs. This leads to new challenges in multi-user environments as applications which are executed simultaneously share a common context and thus can directly impact each other. In this paper we present a framework to coordinate multiple pervasive applications explicitly considering their context-interactivity. We show how application coordination can be integrated in an existing component-based system exemplified by our system PCOM. We conduct measurements for the extended system and discuss the obtained results.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121406729","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":"Cipo_08 : Cybernetic Intelligent Parasitic Object","authors":"Daflos E. Kostas","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.64","url":null,"abstract":"The CIPO artwork program are interactive action based installations, that investigate through robot agents, the relationship between subjects, body and space. The interminglements of spectators within the digital framework turn the space into an experimental place. The CIPO program involves the live energy of the human presence, performer; it agitates the spectators to perform in an active relation with subjects and objects in place. Cipo_08 was conceived through a reading on the non-official urban equipment, the temporary architecture coming from the movable/ vehicle and the everyday street life. It is an autonomous robotic vehicle that is driven by the human body; as a guide on a \"derive\" in urban areas. An alternative way of thinking about mobile bodies is to think of them as moving with the aid of a number of prosthetic devices. Cipo_08 archives the experiences from the walking act, as a material which is conceived as fluid information; from the potential of mobility through a network, as a mapping system that is crossing over territories. Different plotting graphics are created by cipo_08 through its passing, material that is transcribed from random background noises in the city. Cipo_08 , an uncanny and unusual existence, just like the cyborg, pays attention to the otherness (refugee), and is immune with racism and the traditional power-relations. It crosses the borders, in nomadic shifts and paths of deterritorialization.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125634378","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":"On the Deployment of Contextual Reasoning in Ambient Intelligence Environments","authors":"C. Papatheodorou, G. Antoniou, Antonis Bikakis","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.10","url":null,"abstract":"Ambient Intelligence environments consist of various devices that collect, process, change and share the available context information. The imperfect nature of context, the open and dynamic nature of ambient environments, and the special characteristics of the involved devices have introduced new research challenges on how to represent and reason with contextual information. Previous work presented a solution based on an extension of Multi-Context Systems through the use of defeasible reasoning to reason efficiently with conflicts. This paper reports on initial experiences gained from the deployment of contextual defeasible reasoning in real environments. We report on the architecture of an implementation on small devices, present the definition and implementation of two concrete application scenarios, and discuss the performance and issues of scalability of the approach.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115784947","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":"Scene Understanding: A Framework for Image Segmentation via Object Recognition","authors":"K. Loke, S. Egerton","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.67","url":null,"abstract":"An approach to image segmentation using prior knowledge is used to segment an image by first identifying objects in the image. We describe a framework that uses object recognition to determine the object and hence its contours, and use it to segment the object. The result of the object recognition is used to drive the object-based segmentation.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"311 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131545595","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 ObjectRules Framework - Providing Ad Hoc Context-Dependent Assistance in Dynamic Environments","authors":"Michael Schneider, Michael Velten, J. Haupert","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.30","url":null,"abstract":"We present ObjectRules, a framework that allows to implement context-dependent assistance in dynamic environments by conceptually and/or physically attaching factual and procedural knowledge to locations, physical objects, and users. At runtime, the knowledge models of present objects are merged with the location's and user's knowledge models to a transient context model which can be used as input for a rule-based system. We describe the general architecture of the ObjectRules framework and demonstrate its practical application in the context of a smart medicine cupboard.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134059030","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}