Building Intelligent Environments Using Smart Daily Objects and Personal Devices

Abstract

Our daily life will be more attractive when our surroundings will be more intelligent. Most of current researches in ubiquitous computing try to build a smart environment by embedding sensors and computers in our living spaces directly. However, the approach is very expensive to make our environment smart. Our approach uses intelligent daily objects and personal devices to build a smart environment. This makes it possible to make our environment smart in an incremental way by replacing existing objects to new intelligent objects whenever a person wants. In our project, we are currently developing sentient artefacts that are intelligent daily objects embedding computers and sensors. Also, we are implementing middleware infrastructures for personal devices that allow us to control embedded services in an easy way.

Applying the Double Diamond Model to Enhance Service Design in Urban Family Kitchens

“…As society continues to develop and progress, there is a growing demand for enhanced food safety and improved service experiences within home kitchens [1]. Throughout history, the evolution of kitchen usage needs can be traced from fire cooking in ancient times to the development of ancient stoves, modern public stoves, and ultimately modern private stoves [2].…”