Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia
Towards an Affective Aware Home
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
A portable toolkit for supporting end-user personalization and control in context-aware applications
Multimedia Tools and Applications
A cross-layered diagnostician in OSGI platform for home network
EUC'07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Emerging direction in embedded and ubiquitous computing
UbiREAL: realistic smartspace simulator for systematic testing
UbiComp'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
An offset algorithm for conflict resolution in context-aware computing
UIC'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
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Recently, context-aware computing with information appliances is the topic of many research efforts. In order to realize context-aware systems, it is necessary to describe rules, each of which consists of (1) transition condition for identifying a specific context, and (2) actions to be executed when the condition holds. However, in an ordinary home without IT specialists, it would be too complicated for each user to specify feasible rules by choosing an appropriate combination of sensors and actions, since possible combinations are so many and he/she may have even no idea on functionalities of sensors or devices. Also, multiple users may want to control the same device at the same time in different ways. In this paper, we propose a framework and a rule-based language for simply and intuitively specifying feasible rules for context-aware control of information appliances. Our framework includes mechanisms for retrieving sensors/devices to specify a condition of a rule and for detecting a conflict over multiple rules. Our prototype implementation on a PC achieves practically sufficient performance for these operations.