SmartO ce: An Intelligent and Interactive Environment

This paper presents our Intelligent Environment called SmartOOce. In the SmartOOce the user can work as in a normal of-ce. The ooce's intelligence observes the user in order to anticipate his intentions and augments his environment to communicate useful information. Computers are involved in user activities in order to help in everyday tasks. The system interacts with users using voice, gesture or movement. The SmartOOce provides a test{bed for collaboration and combinaition of independant modules integrated into a single coherent application. Integration requires a exible working environment in which module devel-oppers should not worry about low{level communication between modules. This paper presents a exible resource{oriented integration protocol , which we argue is necessary to build such an environment. All modules need not be aware which resources can be provided by each module. They communicate with the supervisor which acts as a resource{server. The supervisor is programmed using a rule{based language, in which the addition or the suppression of a module requires only the suppression of the corresponding rule. Two major modules of the SmartOOce are considered to illustrate de role of the supervisor: The rst module is the MagicBoard, an ordinary white board augmented by a camera and a video{projector. To guess the user{intentions, the system must constantly be aware of the location of the users in the SmartOOce. Therefore we need a user localization module. This is the second module that we describe. An example of the tracking architecture is presented. Abstract. This paper presents our Intelligent Environment called SmartOOce. In the SmartOOce the user can work as in a normal of-ce. The ooce's intelligence observes the user in order to anticipate his intentions and augments his environment to communicate useful information. Computers are involved in user activities in order to help in everyday tasks. The system interacts with users using voice, gesture or movement. The SmartOOce provides a test{bed for collaboration and combinaition of independant modules integrated into a single coherent application. Integration requires a exible working environment in which module devel-oppers should not worry about low{level communication between modules. This paper presents a exible resource{oriented integration protocol , which we argue is necessary to build such an environment. All modules need not be aware which resources can be provided by each module. They communicate with the supervisor which acts as a resource{server. The supervisor is programmed using a rule{based language, in which the addition or the suppression …