i2home Intuitive Interaction for everyone with HOME appliances based on industry standards

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i2homeIntuitive Interaction for everyone with
HOME appliances based on industry standards
Dr. Jan Alexandersson DFKI GmbH Saarbrücken,
Germany janal_at_dfki.de
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Project Summary

• make devices and appliances at home accessible to
  persons with special needs (focus in i2home
  persons with mild cognitive disabilities and
  older persons)...
• ...by using a new mainstream user interface
  standard the Universal Remote Console (URC)
  standard (ISO/IEC 24752)
• ...Proof-of-concept implemented in diverse
  scenarios, such as, Home Automation, Intelligent
  Environments Ambience, Intelligent Environments
  (including Automobiles) and SOA architectures

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Reality bites...
Play Matrix
Sorry, you must figure out how to Turn on
TV Turn on Stereo Change audio to TV Set video to
Cable box Find Lindenstraße Change Cable Box to
that channel
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Needs/Problems (General Scheme)

• Industrys reluctance to standardize access
  technologies and to implement them in a Design
  for All approach
• Design and implementation of appliances, mobile
  phones and remote controls are only convenient
  for users that are engaged in modern technologies
• Especially cognitive disabled and older persons
  are excluded from using modern technologies, at
  home and in the public
• they remain impeded in participating in our
  society, in living an independent life and in
  realizing their full potential

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Needs/Problems (Example)

• Even simple technology, such as a modern
  standard TV equipment overwhelms persons
  suffering from Alzheimers disease (GDS 3-5).
• At the residential homes at Ingemas facilities
  in San Sebastian, Spain, there is at most one
  person out of 10 who is able to (not necessarily
  understanding how to) switch on the TV or swap
  channel.

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Goals/Objectives

• To make the digital home accessible to all
• To create an open market for adaptable user
  interfaces for the digital home
• To develop a technology to the task of empowering
  citizens to play a full role in society

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Key Benefits

• By using the Design For All Approach, flexible
  user interfaces can
• be adapted to the changing needs of their users,
  as the persons abilities change during day time
  and life time
• be adapted according to the users vision,
  hearing, dexterity, and mobility impairments
• save money, because there is no need to buy new
  products every now and then to accommodate the
  users changing needs

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Key Benefits

• Key outcome of the project is
• Experiences and solutions based on real users
  needs
• An open standards-based industrial technology
  that is ready to be picked up by industry
• An eco system built around the ISO/IEC 24752
  technology
• Technology producers/providers
• Technology consumers (in i2home user
  organisations individuals)
• Technology URC Starter Kit
• Technology methodology- inegrated solutions
  results based on evaluation with real users

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Main Activities

• 1. REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS
• selecting participants and collecting
• requirements based on technology and
• participantss needs (Completed)
• 2. IMPLEMENTATION
• technical requirements are implemented (3rd
  Ongoing)
• 3. TESTING
• participants test the installed technology
• to verify if the technology is feasible, usable
  and intuitively accessible for the participants
  (1st-2nd completed, 3rd pending)
• 4. EVALUATION
• test results are evaluated and fed into the new
  iteration  (1st-2nd completed, 3rd pending)
• 5 Orthogonal acitivities
• Exploitation, dissemination and project
  management (ongoing)

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Project Facts

• Type. Strep.
• IST-5-030600
• Budget 4.111.123
• Funding 2.099.913
• Participants
• DFKI. Germany. (Coordinator).
• CNRS. France.
• Telefónica. Spain.
• Vecsys. France.
• Meticube. Portugal
• VICOMTech. Spain
• INGEMA. Spain.
• Durham County Council. UK
• Czech Technical University in Prague. Czech
  Republic

Project Consortium
FP6, STREP, Budget 4.9 Mi Funding 2.7 Mi
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User Requirement Evaluation

• HI Hjälpmedelsinstitutet (DFKI)
• focusing on users with moderate cognitive
  disabilities (e.g. after brain injury)
• Req and Eval at a day care center
• INGEMA - Instituto Gerontológico Matía
  (VICOMTech)
• focusing on users suffering Alzheimers disease
  and dementia
• Reqs and Eval at INGEMA residential home
• CTU - Czech Technical University (CTU)
• focusing on elderly users 60 years
• Reqs and Eval at CTU usability lab
• C-Lab by Siemens AG (C-LAB)
• focusing on users with reduced physical and
  sensory abilities (sight, hearing, touch)
• Reqs and Eval at C-LABs own facilities

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Some additional info

• i2home technology used in several other projects
• MonAMI (IP, FP6, eInclusion)
• VITAL (STREP, FP6, eInclusion)
• Smart Senior (German, Gov. funded)
• Brainable (STREP, FP7, eInclusion)
• Universal Remote Console has been standardized
  under ISO/IEC 24752 within the scope of the
  i2home project
• URC plattform, tools and resources available
  under
• http//myurc.org
• mailtoi2home_at_meticube.com

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Contact Details www.i2home.org

• Project Coordination
• Dr. Jan Alexandersson
• German Research Centre for Artificial
  Intelligence DFKI GmbH
• Saarbrücken, Germany
• Phon/Fax [phone]/5020
• Email janal_at_dfki.de
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• Technical Coordination
• Prof. Gottfried Zimmermann
• Access Technologies Group
• Pfullingen, Gerrmany
• Phon/Fax [phone]
• Email gzimmermann_at_acm.org

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Questions?
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Personas communication in team

• Team communication

Users
User experts (CTU, HI, Ingema, SAG)
Developers (ATG, DFKI, MET, SAG, VIC, ZGDV)
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Universal Control Hub Architektur
Controllers
Resource ServerCompany A
Resource Server Company B
HTML
Flash
SVG
Text
VoiceXML
HTML
Flash
SVG
Text
VoiceXML
aggregated
aggregated
Internet
"Target"Devices
Universal Control Hub
SVG / HTTP
SVG / HTTP
TV
prop.
UI Socketfor TV
Pluggable UI for TV
DHTML / HTTP
(e.g. CEA-2014)
Calendar
Flash
prop.
UI Socketfor Cal.
Pluggable UI for Cal.
Target Adapter Layer
XRT2
HVAC
Plugg. UI for HVAC
UI Socketfor HVAC
CHAIN
VoiceXML / phone line
e.g. UPnP
Other Devices
PluggableUI
UI Socketfor CEA 2018
URC / HTTP
Next-gen controller
Activity Management e.g., CEA 2018