Towards an Affective Aware Home

  • Authors:
  • Benţa Kuderna-Iulian;Cremene Marcel;Todica Valeriu

  • Affiliations:
  • Comm.Dept., Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania;Comm.Dept., Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania;Comm.Dept., Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  • Venue:
  • ICOST '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics: Ambient Assistive Health and Wellness Management in the Heart of the City
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The nowadays smart homes run predefined rules, but the user's desired behaviour for a smart home varies, as his/her needs change over time. To edit the initial rules is a difficult task for a usual user. We propose a control mechanism that allows the system to learn the new behaviour preferences without editing the rules, but responding emotionally to the system's decisions. In order to capture the emotion reaction we use FaceReader, a tool for facial analyses, adapting it to read three valence levels that work as positive, negative or neutral feedback. The results in training a MLP neural network to learn the preferred behaviour from the user's emotional reaction are discussed. Ontology is used in order to describe the context.