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AMIGO Project Information
Ambient Intelligence for the Networked Home
Environment
Integrated Project in 6. Framework Program
of the European Commission, 2004-2008
Generic Goals
Middleware and Interoperability of devices, artifacts, services
Intelligent User Services
Three Application Domains
Home Care and Safety
Home Information and Entertainment
Extended Home Environments
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Amigo Consortium
Germany
The Netherlands
Finland
France
Italy
Spain
Greece
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Point of Departure:
User Requirements Study
Goal: To obtain feedback from potential users on the
usefulness and appropriateness of applications and
services
Method: Scenario-driven approach consisting of three
different parts:
Quantitative evaluation:
1.) preference ratings, 2.) Gallery session
Qualitative evaluation: 3.) focus groups
Subjects: n=45, 6 groups, 5 countries, 5 sites,
average population sample: ,, 20-55,
single, family
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Point of Departure:
User Requirements Study
Results:
Be easy to use and to configure (no user programming)
Not being used for surveillance
Enable individual settings and preferences
Be configurable by the user or service provider
Be movable, in case of moving to other homes
Be extensible - easy to upgrade
Be flexible
Enable turning off individual features
Be modular
Be maintenance free (for the user)
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Fundamental Balance for
Creating Smart Services
There is an interaction and balance/ trade-off between
being able to provide support for people based on
collecting and using sensor data and using them for
deciding, selecting, tailoring system functionality to
make the system smart
and
the right of people to be in control over which data are
collected and by whom and how they are used.
How can people know what is going on, when they are
not aware of it, when they dont see the sensors, the
computer?
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Smart Environments:
Two Approaches
System-oriented, importunate smartness
- Mostly automatic behavior based on collected data,
- Intelligent Home (domotica, )
BUT: refrigerator ordering items
People-oriented, empowering smartness
- implies that the human is in the loop
and can take mature actions based
on suggestions, recommendations
BUT: how much feedback do we want/
can we process?
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The AMIGO-Approach:
Tackling the Balance
Integration of system- and people-oriented approaches
System-oriented:
AMIGO applications are embedded in network of various
smart user services
E.g. Context Awareness, Privacy & User Modeling are inherent
features of AMIGO applications, provided by smart user
services for free
Applications have the power/ potential to reason and to exhibit
automatic behavior
People-oriented:
Dedicated User Profiling service
Privacy & Security as a filter between smart user services
Awareness, Notification, and UI services for integrating the
human in the loop
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Example of Amigo
Home Network
Internet
Access Control
Firewall Wired backbone
For example Ethernet
Wireless infrastructure
Home Gateway For example WLAN
Home Control
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Amigo User Services
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Amigo User Services
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Amigo User Services
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Amigo Aware Applications
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Amigo Aware Applications
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Amigo Aware Applications
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What is the right balance for an
AMIGO Aware Application?
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How to leave the user in
control?
Customizing application behavior in User Modeling
Service
Automatic Controlled
Less user interaction More user interaction
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Further Information
AMIGO Website
www.amigo-project.org
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