Handling uncertainty in multimodal pervasive computing applications

Ubiquitous computer aided design: A broken promise or a Sleeping Beauty?

“…Ubiquitous computing enables the development of massively distributed systems that help transform physical spaces into computationally active and highly interactive smart spaces/environments. Nevertheless, they operate as information-intensive systems and should be able to cope with uncertainties [95]. In other words, they generate and process large amount of data and knowledge, which usually need real-time distributed processing [96].…”

Uncertainty and Error Handling in Pervasive Computing: A User's Perspective

“…The users' ability to devise error handling strategies is generally dependent on the availability of system's feedback about its current status and beliefs. (Bourguet, 2008) describes an experimental study that aims to test users spontaneous change of behaviour in situation of error correction, when the cause and source of the error cannot easily be identified. The context of the experiment is multimodal (speech and pen interaction) and not pervasive, but it gives an insight into users' opportunistic error handling strategies in complex error situations.…”