Accessible Internet-of-Things and Internet-of-Content Services for All in the Home or on the Move

Abstract

Public authorities and national healthcare service providers across the European Union and beyond are increasingly under pressure to deliver better services with diminishing resources. Users, quite rightly, demand a high standard of service and increasingly also convenience focused on the needs of the users rather than how the services are organised to deliver them. Users, on the whole, also prefer to be supported in their homes, and be free to move as much as possible. While users without impairments and generally well provided for, there are increasingly also users who have special needs, including the aged and those with a range of physical and mental disabilities who are unable to make effective use of such services from their homes due to the lack of proactive and accessible services. The idea we promote in the chapter is to provide better support to users with disabilities and impairments from the comfort of their home by means of providing them with a set of scalable services which can be either offered for free or purchased through some central form of a marketplace repository

Interactions in Augmented and Mixed Reality: An Overview

“…A significant challenge this venture undertakes to address is the lack of a well-defined and structured schema representing human-computer interaction in the context of mixed and augmented reality environments. For example, representations commonly included in research studies classify the visual-based modality by method (e.g., gesture recognition) and the sensorbased modality by the device (e.g., pen-based or mouse-based) [33]. Other representations, generally accepted by the research community, organize interactions by research areas, thus avoiding defining an in-depth classification [30].…”

A Survey of Interoperability Challenges and Solutions for Dealing With Them in IoT Environment

“…Many scenarios show the need for people required to interact with the surrounding environment, devices, and services in the smart home, which has many other examples and applications [54].…”

“…The authors in [58] introduced an idea of a Resource Description Framework (RDF)-based repository which is a repository where users can search for vocabulary and then use it. In [54] semantics to improve service quality and configuration are discussed. In [72] it is suggested to use the RDF trilogy to annotate the data so that it can be understood when it is exchanged between different systems.…”