HAS Network Medium I Abstract A three-tier gateway architecture for internetworking between home automation networks and a TCPlIP based wide area network, such as the internet, is described. The architecture abstracts the functionality of any home network into a driver layer (tier one), and provides a common access layer (tier two) from any TCP/IP network application (tier three) to a local hom...

The proliferation of advanced technologies has been altering our lifestyle and social interactions – the next frontier is the digital home. Although the future of smart homes is promising, many technical challenges must be addressed to achieve convenience and security. In this paper, we delineate the unique combination of security challenges specifically for access control and consider the chal...

ion Convincingness Distinctness Natural 5.08 89% Baldi 5.10 94% Matrix 5.10 77% The medium used to express an emotion, which could be either audio, visual or the combination of both, has significant influence on its convincingness (F[2,64]=4.332, p=.017). Visual and audio/visual expressions were slightly more convincing than audio expressions (t[32]=2.089, p=.045). Distinctness was not signific...

The smart home offers a new opportunity to augment people's lives with ubiquitous computing technology that provides increased communications, awareness, and functionality. Recently, a number of trends have increased the likelihood that the aware home can soon become a reality. We examine a number of challenges from the technical, social, and pragmatic domains that we feel must be overcome befo...

In this paper, we present the collection and analysis of a spoken dialogue corpus obtained from interactions of older and younger users with a smart-home system. Our aim is to identify the amount and the origin of linguistic differences in the way older and younger users address the system. In addition, we investigate changes in the users’ linguistic behaviour after exposure to the system. The ...

Common Law has always recognised a person’s house as his or her castle; an innermost sanctum where one’s right to be left alone is protected in all but the most extreme of situations. But the so-called “Digital Home”, instrumented, monitored and regulated by a so-called “Internet of Things” may very drastically change this, turning every last detail of every last personal and private activity i...

"Smart" solutions have considerable transformational power. From the perspective of Environmental Informatics, it is an open question whether a specific smart solution (e.g., a smart home application) is more energy efficient than a conventional solution and under which conditions even a more energy efficient solution is more sustainable. This paper provides ideas and arguments why we should ta...

The authors describe a newly developed German Text-Toaudiovisual-Speech (TTavS) synthesis system based on the English speaking HeadZero. Targets of the control parameters of the talking head are generated by mapping of German phonemes to the originally English visemic blend shapes controls. The resulting German version of HeadZero and the German talking head MASSY were extended to generate audi...

In this paper, we propose a service conflict management framework for detecting and resolving conflicts of multi-users who share context-aware applications within a smart home. For supporting a general solution to deal with the multi-user conflicts, the framework utilizes an ontology that describes applications and their services, an approach determination tree that assigns an appropriate resol...

Residential ubiquitous computing environments have focused on interconnecting environmental controls using a home network and the management of sensor data rather than a context-aware inference. Building upon previous research, this paper proposes a novel sensor-based context-aware system with a focus on three inference processes: rule, inference and pattern driven. Using pattern data derived f...