Smart Baton System: a universal remote control system in ubiquitous computing environment

Saito, Ayumu; Minami, Masateru; Kawahara, Yoshihiro; Morikawa, Hiroyuki; Aoyama, T.

doi:10.1109/icce.2003.1218942

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“…The control of complex appliances with simple remote controls has receive some attention [7]. The problem with many remotes is well-known and several innovative methods have been proposed such as laser pointers [8], gestures [9] and wrist worn controllers [10], in addition to commercial universal remote controls. One key problem with universal controls is that they often rely on mode, where the user needs to select a particular mode to control a particular device.…”

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confidence: 99%

UbiWheel: A simple context-aware universal control concept for smart home appliances that encourages active living

Sandnes

Herstad

Stangeland

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence &Amp; Computing, Advanced &Amp; Trusted Computed, Scalable Computing &Amp; Commun

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Smart homes contain many useful appliances that can help individuals live independently for longer. A problem with current smart homes prototypes is that each device often has its own remote control or control unit. These control units are often manufactured by different suppliers with totally different and inconsistent user interfaces. This is confusing for most individuals and become a huge barrier for individuals with reduced cognitive function. This paper thus introduces a conceptual sketch of a universal and ubiquitous control wheel, termed UbiWheel that is designed to control most appliances in the home. The user simply moves the controller to the proximity of the device be controlled and adjust parameters by simply twisting the wheel, thereby preventing inactivity as the user need to move around the home. Several cases are explored herein.

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UbiWheel: A simple context-aware universal control concept for smart home appliances that encourages active living

Sandnes

Herstad

Stangeland

et al. 2017

2017 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence &Amp; Computing, Advanced &Amp; Trusted Computed, Scalable Computing &Amp; Commun

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“…Current home networks have multiple transmission medias, such as WLAN, ZigBee, ECHONET, LonWorks, UPnP, Jini, and X10 [3][4][5][6][7][8], and manufacturers that design products lack joint standards to follow, leading to problems of network protocol interoperability. In terms of user interface, such incompatible circumstances create difficulties, thus many studies have discussed this problems and proposed solutions to enable home control network protocol synergy [9][10][11][12][13][14]. Most control terminals are desktops, notebook computers, handheld computers, personal digital aides (PDA), mobile phones, which use wireless network technology (IEEE 802.11) or Bluetooth [15][16][17][18][19], which belong to high-bandwidth highpower consumption system.…”

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confidence: 99%

A context-aware multi-model remote controller for electronic home devices

2009

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In the past few years, household remote control products have continuously emerged, and more equipment could be controlled at remote distance. With continuous growth in the number of home remote control devices, the number of remote controllers at home is increasing. In addition, with the increase of PC and notebook computer demands, technologies for controlling computer devices or digital home appliances within the home networks have been launched, such as UPnP (Universal Plug and Play), OSGI (Open Service Gateway Initiative), HAVI (Home Audio/Video Interoperability), and Jini. Because there are too many standards of home network, it is difficult to define a universal standard conformed to others. Many researches have focused on linking the various protocols of these devices, but most of them used the Web or PDAs to control the devices. In such situation, users must rely on computer equipment and face the battery problem of handheld devices.This study aims to develop a cross-heterogeneous network remote control system. In order to relieve the problem of excessive remote controllers, we built a contextaware multi-model remote controller for electronic home devices to relieve the user of a nuisance of enormous amount of remote controllers.

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“…Many research groups are aware of the importance of the problem and are suggesting new interaction styles [4]. Many of them utilize a spatial pointing device, so called "spatial mouse", for direct manipulation in space [1,2]. The interaction using a spatial mouse may be regarded as an extension of the direct manipulation style in the desktop GUI to the physical space.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The most basic function of such a device is the ability to identify the object that the user points at. Many technologies, ranging from a simple optical tag [1] to a sophisticated positioning system, have been tested for that purpose [2], but possibly the best solution would be object recognition by machine vision. The disadvantage of using optical tags as in Smart Baton System [1] is that all the objects need optical tags on them in order to be recognized.…”

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Circle & identify

Sohn

Lee²

2005

Proceedings of the 18th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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The first requirement of a "spatial mouse" is the ability to identify the object that it is aiming at. Among many possible technologies that can be employed for this purpose, possibly the best solution would be object recognition by machine vision. The problem, however, is that object recognition algorithms are not yet reliable enough or light enough for hand-held devices. This paper demonstrates that a simple object recognition algorithm can become a practical solution when augmented by interactivity. The user draw a circle around a target using a spatial mouse, and the mouse captures a series of camera frames. The frames can be easily stitched together to give a target image separated from the background, with which we need only additional steps of feature extraction and object classification. We present here results from two experiments with a few household objects.

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Smart Baton System: a universal remote control system in ubiquitous computing environment

Cited by 14 publications

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UbiWheel: A simple context-aware universal control concept for smart home appliances that encourages active living

UbiWheel: A simple context-aware universal control concept for smart home appliances that encourages active living

A context-aware multi-model remote controller for electronic home devices

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