Living in Smart Environments - 2nd year PhD Report

Second Year Evaluation (XVI cycle) Luigi De Russis

Living in Smart Environments:
Interfaces, Interaction and
Usability

HCI in the Ambient Intelligence field
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 Ambient Intelligence (AmI)
 vision of a future information society
 in which people are empowered through a digital
environment
 aware of their presence and context
 sensitive, adaptive and responsive to their needs, habits, gestures
and emotions
 must be Pervasive Pervasive
 user-friendly computing communication
 secure Intelligent
 controllable User-friendly
 almost invisible Interface

Living in Intelligent Environments: Interfaces, Interaction and Usability 27/11/2012

Overview
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Exploring different interactions with the environment…

WIMP Mobile Wearable

Touch Natural Language Gaze

… in different topics and areas
School and Residential
Industrial sensors monitoring
university appliances control

Energy
Universal Access Activity delegation
saving


Research-related activities
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Main research domain Side activities

 gaze interaction  Dog-related activities
 DOGeye
 other projects
 “energy efficient”
behavior  scientific activities
 rule-based activity
delegation
 wearable interaction
 dWatch


DOGeye
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 Multimodal eye-based
application
 enable people with motor
disabilities to control and
manage their homes
 User testing with
experienced as well not
experienced eye-tracker
users gives good results

 Publication
 D. Bonino, E. Castellina, F. Corno, L. De Russis, “DOGeye: Controlling
your Home with Eye Interaction”, Interacting with Computers, 2011


“Energy efficient” behavior (I)
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 Design of an innovative user interface
 to incentivize responsible and “green” energy consumption
behaviors in domestic environments
 Development of a user survey, published on the Internet
 presented the designed interface working in 2 different
modalities
 collected information about user understanding, and opinions or
ideas on the proposed interaction paradigms
 nearly 1000 replies were received and a lot of suggestions were
given to improve the presented interface
 Publication
 D. Bonino, F. Corno, L. De Russis, “Home Energy Consumption
Feedback: A User Survey”, Energy and Building, 2012


“Energy efficient” behavior (II)
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 Development of an
Android app exploiting
the survey results as a
master thesis which I
supervised
 STORIES (Polo ICT -
feasibility study)
 advanced user interfaces
and user interaction
methodologies for
improving user awareness
about energy consumption
and energy saving in
homes


Rule-based activity delegation
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 Need to find a balance
between:
 fully-automated home
 full user control
 Design of a rule definition
interface specifically aimed
at “not-skilled” home
inhabitants
 An Android application is
under development as a
master thesis I supervise
 Publication
 D. Bonino, F. Corno, L. De Russis, “A User-Friendly Interface for Rules
Composition in Intelligent Environments”, International Symposium on
Ambient Intelligence, 2011

dWatch
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 Wearable notification and command
system prototype
 low-cost and off-the-shelf
 handle messages coming from the
environment
 quick access command
 Preliminary user study shows interest
in real-world use
 Publications
 D. Bonino, F. Corno, L. De Russis, “dWatch: a Personal Wrist Watch
for Smart Environments”, 3rd International Conference on Ambient
Systems, Networks and Technologies, 2012
 D. Bonino, F. Corno, L. De Russis, “The Smart Home on Your Wrist”,
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (under review)

Dog-related activities
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 DogPower
 publish energy and power consumptions for different devices, eventually
by estimating their individual consumptions from aggregated points of
measure
 Speak2Home
 speech-driven interface for a smart home, for the benefit of mobility
impaired users
 spChains
 framework for building re-usable and modular processing chains for
monitoring (and alerting) tasks, especially in the energy field, built atop
of a set of standard, and extensible, stream processing blocks
 Publications
 D. Bonino, F. Corno, L. De Russis, “Real-time Big Data Processing for Domain
Experts, An Application to Smart Buildings”, chapter in: Big Data Computing
(in press)
 D. Bonino, L. De Russis, “Mastering real-time big data with stream processing
chains”, XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, 2012

Other activities…
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 Other projects I’m (was) involved
 JEERP (J-Energy Enterprise Resource Planning)
 D. Bonino, F. Corno, L. De Russis, G. Ferrero, “JEERP: Energy-aware
Enterprise Resource Planning”, IEEE IT Professional (under review)
 Applus.enérgie
 creation of a smart and shared management system for energy
consumptions in public buildings intended for technical training
 SMILE-O
 framework for the optimization of electrical consumption and production,
based on a provisional model
 Department editor for XRDS, The ACM Magazine for Students
 Reviewer
 Interact 2011 - 2013 (conference)
 Interacting with Computer (Elsevier journal)


Future works
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 Complete on-going projects
 “Energy efficient” behavior app (paper in writing) and
its integration with Dog
 Rules app
 Visual programming interface for the spChains
framework
 Evaluation in the Applus.enérgie Living Labs
 students, teachers and technicians of Politecnico and
Verrés I.S.I.T.P. involved
 Start working on Distributed User Interface (DUI)


Thanks!
Luigi De Russis
luigi.derussis@polito.it
http://elite.polito.it


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