Authors: Gorka Epelde Xabier Valencia Eduardo Carrasco Jorge Posada Julio Abascal Unai DiazOrueta Ingo Zinnikus Christian HusodoSchulz
Publish Date: 2011/12/22
Volume: 67, Issue: 2, Pages: 497-528
Abstract
One of the challenges that Ambient Intelligence AmI faces is the provision of a usable interaction concept to its users especially for those with a weak technical background In this paper we describe a new approach to integrate interactive services provided by an AmI environment with the television set which is one of the most widely used interaction client in the home environment The approach supports the integration of different TV set configurations guaranteeing the possibility to develop universally accessible solutions An implementation of this approach has been carried out as a multimodal/multipurpose natural human computer interface for elderly people by creating adapted graphical user interfaces and navigation menus together with multimodal interaction simplified TV remote control and voice interaction In addition this user interface can also be suited to other user groups We have tested a prototype that adapts the videoconference and the information service with a group of 83 users The results from the user tests show that the group found the prototype to be both satisfactory and efficient to use
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