Digital family portraits: supporting peace of mind for extended family members
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A Testbed for Evaluating Human Interaction with Ubiquitous Computing Environments
TRIDENTCOM '05 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the DEvelopment of NeTworks and COMmunities
Functionality configuration for eHome systems
CASCON '06 Proceedings of the 2006 conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Ambient assisted-living research in carelab
interactions - Designing for seniors: innovations for graying times
Open Source Software: All You Do Is Put It Together
IEEE Software
Simulation of sensor-based tracking in Second Life
Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems: demo papers
SyncDecor: Communication Appliances for Couples Separated by Distance
UBICOMM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 The Second International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies
InPhase: a communication system focused on "happy coincidences" of daily behaviors
CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
I Bet You Look Good on the Wall: Making the Invisible Computer Visible
AmI '09 Proceedings of the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence
The universal control hub: an open platform for remote user interfaces in the digital home
HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: interaction platforms and techniques
Smart artefacts as affordances for awareness in distributed teams
The disappearing computer
SnowGlobe: the development of a prototype awareness system for longitudinal field studies
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Taking location modelling to new levels: a map modelling toolkit for intelligent environments
LoCA'06 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Location- and Context-Awareness
The Design of Everyday Things
Building up virtual environments using gestures
UAHCI'13 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: applications and services for quality of life - Volume Part III
SMAALL: interacting with a smart home through a synchronized scale model
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on MapInteraction
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Ambient Intelligence (AmI) promises future environments that support the well-being of their inhabitants through comfort and assistive environments. For the elderly users, Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) scenarios are targeting safe and independent living at home. Especially the integration of home automation components, such as intelligent light, window, and climate controls seem promising for such scenarios. In this paper, we present a new development method that is based on a detailed three-dimensional model and show how the model can be used for designing and evaluating assistive environments. Such a system has been developed and deployed. We present an architectural foundation of how Universal Remote Console technology can be applied to synchronize the virtual environment model with the real world. Furthermore, we extend previous work on Dual Reality by introducing the concept of Synchronized Realities that includes the synchronization between remote AmI environments. We will discuss application scenarios and show two demonstrators that we have implemented based on the proposed development method.