A constraint-based approach for proactive, context-aware human support

  • Authors:
  • Federico Pecora;Marcello Cirillo;Francesca Dell'Osa;Jonas Ullberg;Alessandro Saffiotti

  • Affiliations:
  • (Correspd. E-mail: federico.pecora@oru.se);-;-;-;Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, Örebro University, 70182 Örebro, Sweden E-mail: .@aass.oru.se

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this article we address the problem of realizing a service-providing reasoning infrastructure for pro-active human assistance in intelligent environments. We propose SAM, an architecture which leverages temporal knowledge represented as relations in Allen's interval algebra and constraint-based temporal planning techniques. SAM provides two key capabilities for contextualized service provision: human activity recognition and planning for controlling pervasive actuation devices. While drawing inspiration from several state-of-the-art approaches, SAM provides a unique feature which has thus far not been addressed in the literature, namely the seamless integration of these two key capabilities. It does so by leveraging a constraint-based reasoning paradigm whereby both requirements for recognition and for planning/execution are represented as constraints and reasoned upon continuously. This work is partially supported by NovaMedTech project “Ängen” (EU regional funds) and by the Swedish Knowledge Foundation (KK Stiftelsen).