sOc-EUSAI '05Pub Date : 2005-10-12DOI: 10.1145/1107548.1107603
C. Floerkemeier, M. Lampe
{"title":"RFID middleware design: addressing application requirements and RFID constraints","authors":"C. Floerkemeier, M. Lampe","doi":"10.1145/1107548.1107603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1107548.1107603","url":null,"abstract":"Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology holds the promise to automatically and inexpensively track items as they move through the supply chain. The proliferation of RFID tags and readers will require dedicated middleware solutions that manage readers and process the vast amount of captured data. In this paper we analyze the requirements and propose a design for such an RFID middleware. We argue that an RFID middleware should not only focus on the application needs, but must also consider the constraints imposed by passive RFID technology.","PeriodicalId":391548,"journal":{"name":"sOc-EUSAI '05","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127295851","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}
sOc-EUSAI '05Pub Date : 2005-10-12DOI: 10.1145/1107548.1107621
Ali Asghar Nazari Shirehjini, Felix Klar
{"title":"3DSim: rapid prototyping ambient intelligence","authors":"Ali Asghar Nazari Shirehjini, Felix Klar","doi":"10.1145/1107548.1107621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1107548.1107621","url":null,"abstract":"The present paper introduces 3DSim, a tool for rapid prototyping Ambient Intelligence, applications. A major feature of this work is the use of a 3D-based virtual environment to represent an intelligent meeting space allowing for prototyping a number of components such as lights, blinds, SMART Boards™ large display walls, projectors, aware chairs, and humans as well as human activity animation. As a result of using standardized interfaces, any UPnP control point may be used to invoke actions on virtual, UPnP devices. Such devices are dynamically inserted to the environment and can be removed at run-time. Data delivered by sensors is interpreted by an environment monitoring component which routes higher-level atomic context information to virtual objects. As a result of invoked device actions and gathered context information, resulting state changes (e.g., switching light states) are visualized within the scene.","PeriodicalId":391548,"journal":{"name":"sOc-EUSAI '05","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129975250","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}
sOc-EUSAI '05Pub Date : 2005-10-12DOI: 10.1145/1107548.1107597
S. Dobson
{"title":"Leveraging the subtleties of location","authors":"S. Dobson","doi":"10.1145/1107548.1107597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1107548.1107597","url":null,"abstract":"Virtually all pervasive computing systems use location as a major parameter governing their behaviour. Simple models of location ignore the richness that arises from humans' perception of location which - if leveraged - can greatly improve a system's ability to reason with location information. We explore how this richness arises, how it can be used to improve reasoning, and the challenges that this gives rise to.","PeriodicalId":391548,"journal":{"name":"sOc-EUSAI '05","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125450447","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}
sOc-EUSAI '05Pub Date : 2005-10-12DOI: 10.1145/1107548.1107592
S. Hamlaoui, F. Davoine
{"title":"Facial action tracking using particle filters and active appearance models","authors":"S. Hamlaoui, F. Davoine","doi":"10.1145/1107548.1107592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1107548.1107592","url":null,"abstract":"Tracking a face and its facial features in a video sequence is a challenging problem in computer vision. In this view, we propose a stochastic tracking system based on a particle- filtering scheme. In this paradigm, the unobserved state includes global face pose and appearance parameters coding both shape and texture information of the face. The adopted observations distribution is derived from an Active Appearance Model (AAM). The transition distribution and the particles number are adaptive in the sense that they are guided by an AAM deterministic search. This optimization stage adjusts the explored area of the state space to the quality of the prediction and enables a substantial gain in computing time. The observation model uses a robust distance measure in order to account for occlusions. Experiments on real video show encouraging results.","PeriodicalId":391548,"journal":{"name":"sOc-EUSAI '05","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121317626","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}
sOc-EUSAI '05Pub Date : 2005-10-12DOI: 10.1145/1107548.1107563
P. Ancey
{"title":"Ambient functionality in MIMOSA from technology to services","authors":"P. Ancey","doi":"10.1145/1107548.1107563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1107548.1107563","url":null,"abstract":"The MIcrosystems platform for MObile Services and Applications (MIMOSA) is an European Integrated Project in the Information Society Technology (IST) priority. The goal of MIMOSA is to make Ambient Intelligence (AmI) a reality by developing a mobile-phone centric open technology platform. In MIMOSA vision, personal mobile devices act as the principal gateway to AmI. The technology platform consists of the present telecommunication technology platform augmented with the following new key building blocks: wireless sensors exploiting the RFID technology, highly integrated readers/writers for RFID tags and sensors, MEMS-based RF components and modules, low-power short-range radios, advanced integration technology and novel MEMS sensors for context sensitivity and intuitive user interfaces. In MIMOSA vision, the user feels and really is in control of AmI. AmI applications help people in their everyday life: the applications are useful, usable, reliable, and ethical issues have been taken into account in the design.","PeriodicalId":391548,"journal":{"name":"sOc-EUSAI '05","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121821817","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}
sOc-EUSAI '05Pub Date : 2005-10-12DOI: 10.1145/1107548.1107600
Michael Hellenschmidt
{"title":"Distributed implementation of a self-organizing appliance middleware","authors":"Michael Hellenschmidt","doi":"10.1145/1107548.1107600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1107548.1107600","url":null,"abstract":"A middleware for real ad-hoc cooperation of distributed device ensembles must support self-organization of its components. Self-organization means that the independence of the ensembles' components is ensured, that the ensemble is dynamically extensible by new components and that real distributed implementation is possible. Furthermore the data-flow of messages within the ensemble may not be statically determined. This article presents the distributed implementation of the SodaPop model for distributed device ensembles of physical heterogeneous devices as well as the distributed handling of conflict resolution strategies that guarantee the data-flow even if there are competing components. The proposed approach relies on the principle of device representatives. Here physical devices host their components and disburden them from communication and service composition strategies.","PeriodicalId":391548,"journal":{"name":"sOc-EUSAI '05","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131841789","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}
sOc-EUSAI '05Pub Date : 2005-10-12DOI: 10.1145/1107548.1107614
T. Heider, T. Kirste
{"title":"Multimodal appliance cooperation based on explicit goals: concepts & potentials","authors":"T. Heider, T. Kirste","doi":"10.1145/1107548.1107614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1107548.1107614","url":null,"abstract":"Smart Environments are increasingly composed from individual components (smart appliances) that have to assemble them-selves into a coherently acting ensemble. This requires software technologies that enable appliances to cooperate spontaneously on behalf of the users needs.In this paper we will illustrate why a goal based approach is necessary and how explicit goals can be used to find system comprehensive strategies and how goals can be used as a benchmark to evaluate the system design.","PeriodicalId":391548,"journal":{"name":"sOc-EUSAI '05","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116592924","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}
sOc-EUSAI '05Pub Date : 2005-10-12DOI: 10.1145/1107548.1107552
Hans-Werner Gellersen
{"title":"Cooperative systems of physical objects","authors":"Hans-Werner Gellersen","doi":"10.1145/1107548.1107552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1107548.1107552","url":null,"abstract":"Notions of 'smart objects' often conjure up images of everyday items that begin to have a fantastic life of their own. In contrast, physical objects that are beginning to be integrated and deployed in computational infrastructures typically have little or no autonomy as computing objects. They reside at the periphery of such systems, and may be able to locally interact through sensors and actuators while being reliant on backend infrastructure to process what is observed and to decide what is actuated. In this talk we consider systems of physical objects that are more autonomous and independent of infrastructure but no less focussed on practical deployment and application. The systems we think of are decentralized (all computing embedded in the physical objects), highly contextualized (physical objects have a priori meaning and affordance), and variable in configuration (resulting from physical use and movement of objects). The individual objects in such systems are naturally limited in the extent to which they can interact with the world: how they are manipulated and configured is dependent on what they physically afford and support, and what they sense and affect is inherently local. The general challenge we explore is how physical objects can form cooperative systems capable of richer interactions with their environment. The specific challenges we consider include how objects can cooperate to model activity and assess situations in their environment, how objects can establish their spatial configuration through cooperative sensing, and how we may build interfaces that exploit ad hoc composition of physical interface components.","PeriodicalId":391548,"journal":{"name":"sOc-EUSAI '05","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116737223","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}
sOc-EUSAI '05Pub Date : 2005-10-12DOI: 10.1145/1107548.1107572
P. Marti, L. Giusti, A. Pollini, A. Rullo
{"title":"Experiencing the flow: design issues in human-robot interaction","authors":"P. Marti, L. Giusti, A. Pollini, A. Rullo","doi":"10.1145/1107548.1107572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1107548.1107572","url":null,"abstract":"The experience of \"emotional tuning\" with artefacts that are not merely static (a teapot), nor merely reactive (a VCR), but that are autonomous, physical objects with decision-making abilities, pro-active, dynamic and designed with the general purpose of engaging users in social interaction, is an intriguing issue for interaction design.This paper is a reflection about the compelling yet difficult nature of interaction dynamics among humans and robots, and a special category among them: robots capable of mediating social interaction.Supporting such experiences means providing intensive embedding in the situation, motivating the users through a sense of engagement, similarly to what Csikszentmihalyi (1990) defines \"optimal flow\", the absolute absorption in the activity where the experience is guided by the personal feeling of the external worlds. The objective of our investigation is to analyze and try to understand if and when robotic devices can engage humans in activities likely to result in \"being in the flow\". We will try to analyze the different dimensions of flow in relation to different kinds of robotic devices: the seal robot Paro, used both for company and for therapeutic activities, the Intelligent Building Blocks, a robotic construction kit often used in educational activities, LEGO Mindstorms, the popular construction kit developed by LEGO.The perspective that will be presented is connected to the quality of interaction and to the personal significance that every human being creates by getting involved and involving its own life experience in the interaction with the robot.","PeriodicalId":391548,"journal":{"name":"sOc-EUSAI '05","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125499686","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}
sOc-EUSAI '05Pub Date : 2005-10-12DOI: 10.1145/1107548.1107559
A. Blayo, B. Pineaux
{"title":"Printing processes and their potential for RFID printing","authors":"A. Blayo, B. Pineaux","doi":"10.1145/1107548.1107559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1107548.1107559","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explains the basics of a number of printing processes (offset lithography, gravure, flexography, ink jet, electrophotography and screen printing). Characteristics such as the process principles, the type of inks and substrates used, the resolution, but also the limitations of these processes (in terms of regularity, for instance) are tackled. Then, their potential for RFID printing is addressed.","PeriodicalId":391548,"journal":{"name":"sOc-EUSAI '05","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126789768","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}