Nayyab Zia Naqvi, Arun Ramakrishnan, D. Preuveneers, Y. Berbers
{"title":"Walking in the Clouds: Deployment and Performance Trade-Offs of Smart Mobile Applications for Intelligent Environments","authors":"Nayyab Zia Naqvi, Arun Ramakrishnan, D. Preuveneers, Y. Berbers","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.19","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud computing is still surfing the hype wave of emerging technologies. Delivering hardware, software and resources as a service over the network, the paradigm is also attracting a good deal of excitement in the mobile computing space. In this work, we challenge the proclaimed benefits of mobile cloud computing using smartphones as thin clients to access remote running applications, especially for applications that require contextual intelligence. Our experiments using mobile healthcare applications show that many resource and performance trade-offs exist and that current deployment schemes for these kind of applications are rough around the edges. We show how a modular design philosophy for mobile applications enables more optimal deployment and performance when leveraging cloud technology.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"104 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":"131454542","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":"Agent-Based Proactive Support in Smart Environments","authors":"Sebastian Bader, R. Nicolay, T. Kirste","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.30","url":null,"abstract":"We describe an agent based approach to control a heterogeneous and dynamic device ensemble. The resulting controller provides pro-active assistance to the users of the environment. For this, roles defining the functionality are attached to dynamically constructed agents. Those roles are assigned based on the current situation, that is the accessible state of all devices and the currently assigned roles. The feasibility of the approach is proven by applying it to a non-trivial use case of a smart meeting room. Finally we present the results of a user evaluation.","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":"130701649","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":"No-Mech Kinetic Responsive Architecture: Kinetic Responsive Architecture with No Mechanical Parts","authors":"Anna Maragkoudaki","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.23","url":null,"abstract":"Kinetic architecture has been in the center of architectural discourse utilizing technological advances [1] to establish itself in the reality of the built environment. Despite the large number of researchers and realized projects, various issues have prevented these solutions from being incorporated vastly into conventional building design. Over the past years, responsive architecture, computational design and material science have been collaborating to form a novel design strategy. In this recent and diverse field of study architects experiment in kinetic architecture through material technology aiming in low energy consumption designs that fulfill their purpose more efficiently. This technology employs a specific group of smart materials that present kinetic properties when triggered by external stimuli. These materials differentiate from others due to a common characteristic: their ability to move with no motors or mechanical parts. A number of related projects has been analyzed not in order to draw definitive conclusions but to communicate some kind of initial concerns about this emerging and interesting field. These projects depict surfaces that respond to environmental data gathered from their immediate environment or human interaction, and form systems that aim to produce a sustainable architecture.","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":"132128642","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}
Thomas Vilarinho, B. Farshchian, J. Floch, B. Mathisen
{"title":"A Communication Framework for the Internet of People and Things Based on the Concept of Activity Feeds in Social Computing","authors":"Thomas Vilarinho, B. Farshchian, J. Floch, B. Mathisen","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.24","url":null,"abstract":"Social networks connect people while internet of things platforms connect things. Although both platforms use various communication tools in efficient ways, platforms for things often don't communicate and interoperate with social networks. As a consequence, there is a lack of unified programming interfaces and platforms to enable internet-based interactions between people and things. This hinders deployment of services where people and things need to co-exist such as in ambient assisted living and collaborative sensing scenarios. We propose activity feeds as a unified communication framework to address this integration challenge. The activity feed concept is widely deployed in social networks and recently also in internet of things platforms. It is a flexible and easy-to-understand concept. We propose a communication framework based on activity feeds consisting of a set of concepts, a set of patterns for using activity feeds, an API for developing applications, and a reference implementation of the framework on smart phones. We describe how we tested this framework in two different applications in the areas of ambient assisted living and crisis management. For these two applications we were able to easily deploy the framework by invoking the activity feed API. We report on how we use communication patterns based on activity feeds and how the framework managed to facilitate people and thing communication.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"22 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":"130726969","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":"Proxemics Awareness in Kitchen As-a-Pal: Tracking Objects and Human in Perspective","authors":"Dipak Surie, Berker Baydan, H. Lindgren","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.43","url":null,"abstract":"Spatial relationships or proxemics play an important role in how humans interact with other people and objects in an environment, yet spatial relationships are not thoroughly exploited within smart environments. Objects designed to be aware of its proxemics facilitate implicit and explicit interaction with humans. Kitchen As-A-Pal is an interactive smart kitchen that provides an infrastructure for sensing and modeling proxemics among objects and human using a sonar network and RFID technology. Position, movement, identity and location are the proxemics dimensions explored in kitchen As-A-Pal. A pilot study of a breakfast scenario comprising of 9 everyday activities in Kitchen As-A-Pal using 2 subjects yielded promising proximity tracking results with a precision of 100% and a recall of 68.3% for spatial zones with high and medium average time percentages (ATP). Also, 53.21% ATP has more than 95% recall values.","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":"132739742","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}