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Enabling End Users to Define the Behavior of Smart Objects in AAL Environments

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Ambient Assisted Living (ForItAAL 2018)

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In Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), Internet of Things (IoT) technology is exploited to equip living environments with smart objects that communicate with the outside world in an intelligent and goal-oriented manner and can support the occupants’ activities. Currently, providing such objects with new capabilities requires several programming efforts. In this paper, we present an approach to combine IoT technologies and End-User Development (EUD) paradigms and tools to identify innovative scenarios where end-users are directly involved in the creation and customization of the AAL systems they use. We will present EFESTO, a Task Automation tool that offers novel visual interaction paradigms to enable end users to easily express rules for smart object configuration and discuss how the overall approach can support daily practices of non-frail elderlies.

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  1. University of Bari, via Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy

    Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costabile, Giuseppe Desolda, Rosa Lanzilotti & Antonio Piccinno

  2. Politecnico di Milano - Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioigegneria, P.zza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Maristella Matera

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Ardito, C. et al. (2019). Enabling End Users to Define the Behavior of Smart Objects in AAL Environments. In: Leone, A., Caroppo, A., Rescio, G., Diraco, G., Siciliano, P. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. ForItAAL 2018. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 544. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05921-7_8

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