Being at one with things: the interconnection metaphor for intelligent environments

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Fogli

et al. 2015

This paper discusses the application of gamification techniques in the Ambient Intelligence context. A three-layer framework for ambient intelligence based on the concept of interconnection among all actors involved in the intelligent environment is first delineated. Then, mechanisms for user-driven creation and modification of environment behavior are advocated in the user layer. For this purpose, event-condition-action rules are promoted in literature. With this position paper we would like to suggest that user interfaces for rule construction must be integrated with proper techniques for user engagement and motivation, such as those proposed in the gamification theory

Section: A Conceptual Framework For Amimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Conceptual Framework For Amimentioning

confidence: 99%

Gamification Techniques for Rule Management in Ambient Intelligence

Benzi

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Fogli

et al. 2015

“…Moreover, the Manager is in charge of the (dis)connection of C-agents from/to the fulcrum it is associated to. CASMAS employs DJess [12] as a middleware for its implementation. DJess (Distributed Jess) is a distributed rulebased programming environment based on Jess (Java Expert System Shell) that has been developed as a middleware for cooperative and context aware applications.…”

Section: The Casmas Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing Computational Places for Communities within Organizations

2006 International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing

Locatelli

Simone

2006

The paper focuses on collaboration that is achieved inside communities thriving within organizations. The nature of the communities and their connections with the institutional technologies embedding the organizational prescriptions require the construction of places where the communities can construct and maintain their local memory, policies and conventions. The paper proposes a framework (i.e., a model and the related language) supporting the construction of such places (i.e., fulcra) and illustrates its use by means of a scenario derived from previous empirical investigations on communities of practice.

“…We acknowledge that these policies would require the application of non trivial techniques of conflict identification and semantic interoperability whose resolution ask, in any case, for the user intervention, at least for sake of validation. But as long as linear knowledge revision mechanisms across different knowledge bases are needed, the programmer can use the corresponding primitives provided in Santana [4]. CASMAS is currently used to design a collaborative pervasive application in the healthcare domain focusing on the mechanisms governing redundancy of information conveyed by distributed (active) artifacts [22].…”

Section: Implementation and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The next section presents the CASMAS (CommunityAware Situated Multi-Agent Systems) model, which integrates the main features of Santana, a framework for the management of distributed reactive behaviors [4] and of MMASS (Multilayered Multi-Agents Situated Systems), a model that has been proposed for managing awareness information in cooperative applications [5,6]. Then, the integrated model is illustrated through scenarios of increasing complexity.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

CASMAS: Supporting Collaboration in Pervasive Environments

Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PERCOM'06)

Locatelli

Sarini

et al.

Self Cite

The paper proposes a model to design collaboration supports in pervasive environments through the notion of community. As in human communities, the degree of participation of a member can dynamically change in relation both to her physical location and to her position in the logical space of the applications the community uses to cooperate. The paper shows how this approach is able to make pervasive environments reactive to user behavior on the basis of a semantically rich context representation.