1. Lifestyle Research Day 2011 Contacts:
Monique Hendriks
Aart van Halteren
Situated Coaching: integrating human coaching
expertise into the coaching engine
Consumer Benefits
• Monitoring :anytime anywhere
• Observe physical activity at the office
• Context: Time and place of advice and feedback
• In front of the elevator: “take the stairs”
• Not during an important meeting
• Multiple devices: Advice is delivered on a suitable
device
• Mobile when on the go
• PC at work
• Consumer devices
• Coaching quality: consistent with human coaching,
but more cost efficient
Working Principle
• Monitoring: Sensing devices monitor the user’s
behavior
• Context: Calendar, GPS, local weather websites,
etc. provide information about user’s current
and future situation
• Multiple devices: A smart space allows multiple
devices to connect to the system
• Coaching quality: Engine is programmed directly
by the coaches, resulting in a reduction in labor
costs and less room for human error
Technology Status
• ‘Skip’ the software engineer
• Automatic mapping of intermediate,
language to inference rules (machine
language)
• ‘Skip’ the rule designer
• Mapping from intermediate language to
coach’s domain language ongoing
• Language allows and requires explicit
specification of timing, device and emotion
• Advice can be presented by an avatar displaying
this emotion in facial expression and body
posture
Smarcos –Smart Composite HCI