This paper reviews the goals of the Domoweb project and the solutions adopted to achieve them. As a result we enjoy a great support to develop smart home techniques and solutions. As a consequence of the acquired experiences a Smart home model is proposed as a division of four main categories. In relation with the smart home model, we show the essential features a smart environment prediction a...

This paper addresses the topic of providing contextaware services in smart environments. We review recent work in smart environments, and further define and debate essential aspects concerning context-aware service supply. Future challenges for the research in context-aware smart environments are mentioned and discussed.

Intelligent environments offer information filled spaces. When trying to navigate among all the offered resources users can be overwhelmed. This problem is increased by the heterogeneous nature of resources in smart environments. Users must choose between a plethora of services, multimedia information, interaction modalities and devices. But at the same time the unique characteristics of smart ...

The number of smart appliances and devices in the home and office has grown dramatically in recent years. Unfortunately, these devices rarely interact with each other or the environment. In order to move from environments filled with smart devices to smart environments, there must be a framework for devices to communicate with each other and with the environment. This enables reasoners and auto...

R310 Current Biology 26, R307–R318, April 25, 2016 Most European cities have since the 1970s pedestrianised their main shopping streets and taken additional measures to keep cars out of the narrower streets of the historic centres. The Netherlands, now known as a paradise for cyclists, did not become one due to the genetic disposition of the inhabitants but due to conscious planning decisions d...

Ubiquitous computing aims for the realisation of environments that assist users autonomously and proactively in a non-distractive manner. Therefore smart environment infrastructures need to be able to identify users needs (intention recognition) and to plan an appropriate assisting strategy (strategy generation) without explicit user interaction. In our two-stage approach we address inferring t...

In many application domains for agents and MAS, the interaction between the systems and human users is a main element. In some cases, the interaction occurs behind a traditional computing device, such as a computer desktop or a smartphone. In other cases, the interaction occurs through the physical world. This is the case, for instance, of smart/intelligent environment applications, and more ge...

Nowadays computing technology research is focused on the development of Smart Environments. Following that line of thought several Smart Rooms projects were developed and their appliances are very diversified. The appliances include projects in the context of workplace or everyday living, entertainment, play and education. These appliances envisage to acquire and apply knowledge about the envir...

Ubiquitous systems use context information to select and adapt multimodal user interfaces and appliances for individual users in certain situations. However, in order to enable true reactive environments, context information has to be adequately collected, filtered, and processed and combined with user, device and other profiles. In this article, we present how an XML-based transcoding system c...

The Smart Classroom project explores the challenges and potentials of the Intelligent Environment as a new human-computer interaction paradigm. By constructing an intelligent classroom for tele-education, we try to provide teachers the same experiences as in an ordinary classroom when giving teleeducation lessons. The Smart Classroom could actively observe, listen and serve the teachers, and te...