Control smart homes easily with simple touch

Authors:
Sokratis Kartakis;Margherita Antona;Constantine Stephanidis
Affiliations:
Foundation for Research and Technology -- Hellas (FORTH), Institute of Computer Science, Heraklion, Crete, Greece;Foundation for Research and Technology -- Hellas (FORTH), Institute of Computer Science, Heraklion, Crete, Greece;Foundation for Research and Technology, Institute of Computer Science / Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Venue:
Ubi-MUI '11 Proceedings of the 2011 international ACM workshop on Ubiquitous meta user interfaces
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) environments contain many smart artifacts and appliances that users can control automatically or manually. In the manual mode, user interacts with intelligent controllers, touch screens or mobile-phones to control electric and electronic appliances in the house. In the past few years, various research efforts have focuses on the creation of an abstract application that can control every appliance in the environment through smart controllers. This paper describes the Control Home Easily application that auto-generates user interfaces and allows users to manage easily home appliances of every room from inside or outside the home with various interactive units through simple touch. A web application has also been developed that can be run through mobile phones. These approaches help simple users to accept AmI technologies in the home environment and reduce the development time of a new smart artifact.