{"title":"Feature-Based Indoor Navigation Using Augmented Reality","authors":"Sebastian Kasprzak, Andreas Komninos, P. Barrie","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.51","url":null,"abstract":"We present a prototype for indoor navigation using Augmented Reality that uses interior features to determine the user's location and provide navigation instructions. We test our prototype in a simulated physical shopping mall environment and find that AR-based navigation can provide usability advantages in indoor locations, particularly where targets are located on different floors. We conclude by recommending further work in presenting interior navigation instructions using AR.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125668566","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}
I. Ananta, V. Callaghan, J. Chin, Matthew Ball, M. Gardner
{"title":"Crowd Intelligence in Intelligent Environments: A Journey from Complexity to Collectivity","authors":"I. Ananta, V. Callaghan, J. Chin, Matthew Ball, M. Gardner","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.40","url":null,"abstract":"One form of complexity in intelligent environments arises from their heterogeneous nature. The growing variety of environments and countless stereotypes of users operating Intelligent Environments will, theoretically, increase the complexity and resources needed to utilise them. However we argue that utilizing Crowd Intelligence techniques in Intelligent Environments offer several advantages for dealing with these complexities. A novel architecture called a Crowd Based Heterogeneous Ambient Environment Framework (CHAMBER) is introduced, which proposes the use of hierarchical clustering to discover similarities between the infrastructures of individual Intelligent Environments, which are then offered for use by other users wishing to construct their own intelligent environments.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116487816","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":"Gait Analysis for Identifying Parameters Related to Dementia in Intelligent Environments","authors":"Asier Aztiria, M. Ugarte, A. Izaguirre","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.10","url":null,"abstract":"Gait analysis is one of the ways used to assess the evolution of people with dementia. People with dementia tend to become inactive, especially after changing to a different environment this becomes apparent. For that, it is necessary to monitor the user in an unobtrusive manner and develop algorithms to extract patterns of patients' movements from the data collected by different sensors. Such patterns allow experts to assess the degree of dementia behaviour in the movements of patients.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125463762","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}
Konstantinos Avgerinakis, A. Briassouli, Y. Kompatsiaris
{"title":"Recognition of Activities of Daily Living for Smart Home Environments","authors":"Konstantinos Avgerinakis, A. Briassouli, Y. Kompatsiaris","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.37","url":null,"abstract":"The recognition of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) from video can prove particularly useful in assisted living and smart home environments, as behavioral and lifestyle profiles can be constructed through the recognition of ADLs over time. Often, existing methods for recognition of ADLs have a very high computational cost, which makes them unsuitable for real time or near real time applications. In this work we present a novel method for recognizing ADLs with accuracy comparable to the state of the art, at a lowered computational cost. Comprehensive testing of the best existing descriptors, encoding methods and BoW/SVM based classification methods takes place to determine the optimal recognition solution. A statistical method for determining the temporal duration of extracted trajectories is also introduced, to streamline the recognition process and make it less ad-hoc. Experiments take place with benchmark ADL datasets and a newly introduced set of ADL recordings of elderly people with dementia as well as healthy individuals. Our algorithm leads to accurate recognition rates, comparable or better than the State of the Art, at a lower computational cost.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132727013","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":"Constructing Intelligence in Point-to-Point Mobility Systems","authors":"D. Papanikolaou, K. Larson","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.55","url":null,"abstract":"Mobility on Demand (MoD) systems allow users to pick-up and drop-off vehicles (bikes, automobiles) ubiquitously in networks of parking stations. Asymmetric trip patterns cause imbalanced fleet allocation decreasing level of service. Current redistribution policies are complex to plan and typically cost more than the usage revenues of the system. This paper discusses a new operation model based on a double auction market where cost-minimizing users are both buyers and sellers of trip rights while profit-maximizing stations are competing auctioneers that trade them. Thus, trips are priced relatively to the inventory needs of origin and destination stations, causing some trips to be more expensive while other trips to pay back.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114056099","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":"Investigating Occupant Behaviour to Improve Energy Efficiency in Social Housing: Case Study","authors":"Ahmad Lotfi, L. Jalil, A. Al-Habaibeh","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.41","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper an investigation into the energy efficiency in social housing is presented. Means of improving energy efficiency in 40 homes grouped in 9 different archetypes are studied. Improving building fabric is initially investigated. Occupant's behavioural pattern will be studied to make informed decision and consequently reduce the energy consumption. The project aims to highlight important correlation between external ambient temperature and building fabrics, occupancy behavioural pattern in relationship with the ambient temperature and using contemporary energy efficiency measures to reduce energy consumption.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116665675","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-Body IE: A Head-Mounted Multimodal Augmented Reality System for Learning and Recalling Faces","authors":"Daniel Sonntag, Takumi Toyama","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.47","url":null,"abstract":"We present a new augmented reality (AR) system for knowledge-intensive location-based expert work. The multimodal interaction system combines multiple on-body input and output devices: a speech-based dialogue system, a head-mounted augmented reality display (HMD), and a head-mounted eyetracker. The interaction devices have been selected to augment and improve the expert work in a specific medical application context which shows its potential. In the sensitive domain of examining patients in a cancer screening program we try to combine several active user input devices in the most convenient way for both the patient and the doctor. The resulting multimodal AR is an on-body intelligent environment (IE) and has the potential to yield higher performance outcomes and provides a direct data acquisition control mechanism. It leverages the doctor's capabilities of recalling the specific patient context by a virtual, context-based patient-specific ”external brain” for the doctor which can remember patient faces and adapts the virtual augmentation according to the specific patient observation and finding context. In addition, patient data can be displayed on the HMD-triggered by voice or object/patient recognition. The learned (patient) faces and immovable objects (e.g., a big medical device) define the environmental clues to make the context-dependent recognition model part of the IE to achieve specific goals for the doctors in the hospital routine.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130353401","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":"Soft Actuation for Home and Office","authors":"J. Domaszewicz, S. Lalis","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.32","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, most effort in the area of context-aware systems goes into applications that process sensor data to proactively drive actuators. We share the concerns raised about such fully automated operation. Most notably, due to imperfect context inferences, actuating decisions are often contrary to the user's actual desires. Thus we focus on what we refer to as soft actuation: issuing low-key, non-verbal hints to the user, prompting him to optionally perform specific actuating actions. An actuating action consists in reaching to a nearby object and performing a simple manual operation on it. In this paper we describe the concept of soft actuation, position it with respect to related work, and identify relevant research challenges.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"102 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116086246","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":"User-Control of Personalised Intelligent Environments which Support Health","authors":"J. Baskar, H. Lindgren, Chunli Yan","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.39","url":null,"abstract":"This research project aims at supporting workers in the mining and construction industries and older adults at home, in monitoring the risks of their daily work or living situation. A goal is to create awareness in the individual about risks and how to decrease risks. Methods and knowledge-based applications are developed, which synthesise knowledge about the user, the user's activities, the environment and generic domain knowledge for the purpose of providing tailored support and advice to individuals. This knowledge is also what the user can relate to, interact with and control through different methods. In this paper we investigate different approaches to user control of intelligent environments and propose a dialogue-based method for user control.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129304180","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":"Data Reduction for an ICT Network in the Smart Grid","authors":"Z. Pourmirza, J. Brooke","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.26","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent electrical networks called Smart Grids incorporate information and communication technology (ICT) to service the power grid. In this paper we discuss about our proposed ICT architecture at the level of the electrical network where monitoring and control has not previously been deployed. We describe an actual project that is being implemented on the medium voltage power network of the University of Manchester, that will offer more intelligence to the current grid. Energy constraints are one of the major limitations of the ICT in the Smart Grid, especially where wireless networking is proposed. The main contribution of this paper is that we propose a data reduction algorithm suitable for Smart Grid applications which significantly improves the energy efficiency of the communication network by minimizing the communication energy cost and optimizing the network resource consumption while maintaining the integrity and quality of data.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132270274","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}