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Social networks connect people while internet of things platforms connect things. Although both platforms use various communication tools in efficient ways, platforms for things often don't communicate and interoperate with social networks. As a consequence, there is a lack of unified programming interfaces and platforms to enable internet-based interactions between people and things. This hinders...
This position paper is aimed at highlighting the potential connection between Pervasive Systems and Collaborative Innovation. In particular, we discuss the architectural structure of an Innovation Catalyst supporting a collaboration methodology based on the Open Innovation paradigm. Our system is conceived for stimulating the collaborative dynamics of a team, exploiting all the information produced...
This paper introduces a proposal for a smart environment capable of deploying enhanced services by using a synergic approach based on Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) and Fuzzy Markup Language (FML). In detail, this approach realizes a long-life learning strategy able to generate context-aware services and actualize them through abstraction techniques in order to maximize the users' comfort...
The challenge of Global Ambient Intelligence (GAmI) calls for a technological framework enabling the integration of context-awareness and location-awareness. At the same time, it is also highly necessary the role of a subscription and notification mechanism that, starting from context, triggers services within the GAmI system. We argue that the glue between GAmI software components should be realized...
The wide deployment of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) we are witnessing today increases connectivity opportunities for mobile terminal devices, such as smartphones. However, continuous scanning for WLAN points of attachment can be a power exhausting mechanism for such battery-powered devices. These mobile devices, besides being equipped with different wireless access interfaces, are also coupled...
In this paper we propose a novel interaction approach, based on gestures, aiming to recognize and enhance interactions between augmented human beings and augmented environments. We explain how this model, we called ARAMIS, allows interaction designers to fill the gap between real and virtual worlds augmenting the human itself. An enhanced interaction is achieved exploiting a hybrid approach. This...
In computing, Ambient Intelligence (AmI) refers to electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. The ambient intelligence paradigm is characterized by systems and technologies founded on a situational computing and, more generally, situation awareness substratum dealing with situational context representation and reasoning. At the same time, the global information...
Ambient Intelligence is the future of computing where devices predict what users need and help them carry out their everyday life activities easier. To make this prediction possible these environments should be aware of the context. Activity recognition is one of the most complex problems in context-aware environments. In this paper we propose a layered Dynamic Bayesian Network (DBN) to recognize...
In this paper we review the concept of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) and investigate its inherent technological services in the light of potential applications to ITS-related scenarios. Albeit AmI and ITS may seem to overlap in many aspects, they are indeed different and their true synergetic and mutual benefits have not been fully explored nor exploited. Therefore, coupling these two emerging fields...
Nutrition is a critical aspect when getting older because bad nutrition habits can accelerate the process of degradation of the physical condition of the old person. In order to mitigate this problem, an Ambient Assisted Living service has been developed. Research with this service is focused on demonstrating that with an Ambient Intelligence systems it is possible to make the nutritional management...
The rapid aging of the population worldwide will dramatically increase the number of people affected by chronic diseases in the next years. This social situation makes it necessary a paradigm shift from reactive care to preventive care. New technological paradigms, like Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing, allow the development of Personal Health Systems (PHS) that guarantee the continuity...
Early orientation towards tasks of the application domain to be supported by a software system has been proposed as a fruitful means for achieving more appropriate and usable systems as well as for focusing the requirements engineering process. Besides goal orientation, task orientation has therefore been recognized as a promising concept for assuring more completeness and correctness of requirements...
In this paper, we present a system that exploits the semantics of events that are traditionally stored in simple agendas to control appliances and other ordinary devices in the home. Our approach is based on representing the content of agendas using an expressive and semantic modeling language and on implementing the system on top of the Amigo context management service. This approach makes it possible...
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