Human-ambient interaction through Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Recent developments in technology have permitted the creation of cheap, and unintrusive devices that may be effectively employed for instrumenting an intelligent environment. The present work describes a modular framework that makes use of a class of those devices, namely wireless sensors, in order to monitor relevant physical quantities and to collect users' requirements through implicit feedback. A central intelligent unit extracts higher-level concepts from raw sensory inputs, and carries on symbolic reasoning based on them. The aim of the reasoning is to plan a sequence of actions that will lead the environment to a state as close as possible to the users' desires, taking into account both implicit and explicit feedback from the users

Towards an ambient assisted living user interaction taxonomy

“…Within our research user interaction relates to the interaction of users with an AAL system (figure 1). This also includes aspects such as human-ambient interaction and human-robot interaction [4,17]. As users we consider the interaction of the primary stakeholders (users and caregivers) with the AAL system [1].…”