This paper presents a novel concept for personalized privacy support on large public displays in intelligent home environments. In order to validate the conceptual approach a system called SPIROS was developed. The SPIROS system automatically adapts the information visible on public displays according to the current social situation and the individual privacy preferences of the user working at ...

This paper presents a human action recognition system that decomposes the task in two subtasks. First, a view-independent classifier, shared between the multiple views to analyze, is applied to obtain an initial guess of the posterior distribution of the performed action. Then, this posterior distribution is combined with view based knowledge to improve the action classification. This allows to...

The feature or service interaction problem within home networks is an established topic for the FI community. Interactions between home appliances, services and their environment have been reported previously. Indeed earlier work by the authors introduced a device centric approach which detects undesirable behaviour between appliances and their effects on the environment. However this previous ...

The CyberDesk project is aimed at providing a software architecture that dynamically integrates software modules. This integration is driven by a user’s context, where context includes the user’s physical, social, emotional, and mental (focus-of-attention) environments. While a user’s context changes in all settings, it tends to change most frequently in a mobile setting. We have used the Cyber...

In ambient intelligence systems, it is necessary to represent and reason about dynamic spatial scenes and configurations. Primarily, the ability to perform predictive and explanatory analyses on the basis of available sensory data is crucial toward serving a useful intelligent function within such environments. In this paper, we present a qualitative model for representing the relevant aspects ...

A continuous increase of the anticipated average life is expected in the near future. We have to deal with the consequences of aging, such as loneliness in an environment characterized by technology or the need to help elderly people. Technical solutions are required that solve the occurring problems associated with aging and are accepted and used. This work faces the challenge of improving the...

This Pension funds nowadays in India play a huge role in development of the economy and it play active role in the Indian equity markets. A change both in their investment attitudes and in the regulatory climate, encouraging them to increase their investment levels in equities and would have a massive impact on capital market and on the economy as a whole. This paper examines the potential and ...

The reception of goods is a major challenge in the home delivery business. Most of the home delivery models require the customer to be at home to receive the order during the agreed timeframe. This increases the delivery costs and waiting is inconvenient for the customer. Some e-grocers, such as Peapod in the USA and SOK in Finland, tried to solve the problem by offering reception boxes to some...

We present vrFlora which shows adaptive responses suitable for a user’s situation. It perceives the user’s context through ubiTrack detecting the user’s profile, location and orientation, and ubiFlowerpot sensing the user’s manipulation with a physical flowerpot. In addition, it adaptively analyzes the context according to its own characteristics, and then displays customized multimedia content...

These last years, several new home automation boxes appeared on the market, the new radio-based protocols facilitating their deployment with respect to previously wired solutions. Coupled with the wider availability of connected objects, these protocols have allowed new users to set up home automation systems by themselves. In this paper, we relate an in situ observational study of these builde...