NFC-Based User Interface for Smart Environments

Adaptive user interface assistance in smart environments

More than half of the products, which appear to be malfunctioning are often brought back to stores by the customers although they are in full working order. The reason for this is either the customers’ lack of understanding of how to use such products or the unmanageable complexity of the products. This fact claims for intelligent user interfaces which adapt to the user at runtime. Such systems...

Vision-based user-centric light control for smart environments

Smart homes are conceptualized as environments responsive to user’s presence and actions, and adaptive to user preferences and context. Visual information plays an enabling role in smart home applications such as interfaces and gesture control. This paper reports on the use of cameras and a distributed processing method for automated control of lights in a smart home. The proposed optimization ...

NFC-based mobile middleware for intuitive user interaction with security in smart homes

Home networks and networked consumer electronic devices are increasingly becoming a part of our everyday lives. One of the challenges in designing smart home technology is making these systems secure and, at the same time, easy-to-use for non-expert consumers. We believe that mobile devices equipped with a “touch” network interface and corresponding middleware are ideal for enabling users to in...

User Interface for a PCS Smart Phone

New multimedia smart phones for wireless voice and data communications are now available. In this paper, a new user interface for a Personal Communications Services (PCS) smart phone is described. The user interface is designed around the unique characteristics of mobile wireless applications. Both the physical characteristics of the phone and the way users interact with applications are unique...

Capacitive User Tracking Methods for Smart Environments