Effective natural interaction with our sensorized smart homes

Teixeira, António; Almeida, Nuno; Ketsmur, Maksym; Silva, Samuel

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-816801-1.00006-2

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“…Recent years have seen an increase in the number of smart appliances and devices available for installation in our homes [ 1 , 4 , 5 ], which often have various embedded sensors and/or actuators. Sensors measure physical input from their environment and convert it to data that can be interpreted by either a human or a machine, while actuators convert instructions into a mechanical action.…”

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“…Led by pervasive computing and the Internet of Things (IoT), our homes are becoming increasingly sensorized, with the installation of a growing number of diverse smart appliances and devices (e.g., smart lights, dishwasher, and air quality sensors) with embedded sensors and actuators [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]. Besides enabling device control, smart homes potentially allow acquiring a great variety of relevant and valuable information on the home and its devices.…”

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“…Smart homes have the great potential to improve the quality of life of their inhabitants, by enabling more comfortable, secure, healthy, independent, assisted living [ 1 , 5 ]. However, they are also becoming increasingly more complex, making it difficult to interact with them in a simple and easy way.…”

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“…However, there seems to be no clear support of accessibility for all, with most systems targeting a specific group of people with needs, such as older people and/or people with certain disabilities. The users of a smart home can be very diverse, possibly including children, and both younger and older adults, who have different characteristics, capabilities, and preferences [ 1 , 17 ]. For this reason, it is essential to provide smart home solutions that are more inclusive and accessible to everyone, by using a design and development for all.…”

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An Accessible Smart Home Based on Integrated Multimodal Interaction

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Ketsmur

Almeida

et al. 2021

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Our homes are becoming increasingly sensorized and smarter. However, they are also becoming increasingly complex, making accessing them and their advantages difficult. Assistants have the potential for improving the accessibility of smart homes, by providing everyone with an integrated, natural, and multimodal way of interacting with the home’s ecosystem. To demonstrate this potential and contribute to more environmentally friendly homes, in the scope of the project Smart Green Homes, a home assistant highly integrated with an ICT (Information and communications technology) home infrastructure was developed, deployed in a demonstrator, and evaluated by seventy users. The users’ global impression of our home assistant is in general positive, with 61% of the participants rating it as good or excellent overall and 51% being likely or very likely to recommend it to others. Moreover, most think that the assistant enhances interaction with the smart home’s multiple devices and is easy to use by everyone. These results show that a home assistant providing an integrated view of a smart home, through natural, multimodal, and adaptive interaction, is a suitable solution for enhancing the accessibility of smart homes and thus contributing to a better living ambient for all of their inhabitants.

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“…Furthermore, recent studies have addressed advanced smart environment applications using big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) [ 10 , 11 , 12 ]. Such research has, however, been conducted largely in computer science, electrical and mechanical engineering [ 7 , 8 , 10 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ]. Consequently, a systematic understanding of smart environments from the perspective of architectural disciplines is largely unexploited.…”

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Characterizing Smart Environments as Interactive and Collective Platforms: A Review of the Key Behaviors of Responsive Architecture

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Ostwald

Kim

2021

Sensors

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Since architect Nicholas Negroponte first proposed a vision of responsive architecture smart environments have been widely investigated, especially in the fields of computer science and engineering. Despite growing interest in the topic, a comprehensive review of research about smart environments from the architectural perspective is largely missing. In order to provide a formal understanding of smart environments in architecture, this paper conducts a systematic literature review of scholarly sources over the last decade, focusing on four related subjects: (1) responsive architecture, (2) kinetic architecture, (3) adaptive architecture and (4) intelligent buildings. Through this review, the paper identifies and examines interactive and collective behaviors in smart environments, thereby contributing to defining the properties of creative, smart spaces in the contemporary digital ecosystem. In addition, this research offers a means of systematically characterizing and constructing smart environments as interactive and collective platforms, enabling occupants to sense, experience and understand smart spaces.

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