Internet of Things and Smart Environments

Nowadays, the so-called Internet of Things (IoT) and Web of Things (WoT) start to play a more important role in our daily lives, given that many appliances are connected to the Internet. Solutions such as the popular If This Then That (IFTTT) enable users to define rules for implicit interactions with their IoT-enabled devices. However, existing IoT solutions do not support human-computer interactions across platform boundaries and we therefore investigate the necessary concepts and architecture for a cross-platform IoT middleware.

 

Home automation

Figure 1: Implicit human-computer interaction in a smart environment

 

We are further developing solutions for the end-user authoring of the rules defining the smart behaviour in IoT settings. Thereby, a special focus is on the use of augmented reality for the natural authoring of these rules by non-technical users. Last but not least, we are researching different forms of intelligibility to inform users why certain actions are triggered (or not) in multi-user cross-platform IoT-enabled smart environments.

 

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2024 FidMark: A Fiducial Marker Ontology for Semantically Describing Visual Markers
2024 Towards a Write Once Run Anywhere Approach in End-User IoT Development
2023 From Proprietary to High-Level Trigger-Action Programming Rules: A Natural Language Processing Approach
2023 SemBeacon: A Semantic Proximity Beacon Solution for Discovering and Detecting the Position of Physical Things
2022 A Solid-based Architecture for Decentralised Interoperable Location Data
2022 POSO: A Generic Positioning System Ontology
2021 A Middleware for Implicit Human-Computer Interaction Across IoT Platforms
2021 Design Requirements for Recommendations in End-User User Interface Design
2021 Indoor Positioning Using the OpenHPS Framework
2021 Interview with Beat Signer
2020 OpenHPS: An Open Source Hybrid Positioning System
2020 User-driven Design Guidelines for the Authoring of Cross-Device and Internet of Things Applications
2019 Towards Cross-Media Information Spaces and Architectures
2019 A Unifying Reference Framework and Model for Adaptive Distributed Hybrid User Interfaces
2019 Towards End-User Development of Distributed User Interfaces
2018 Crossing Spaces: Towards Cross-Media Personal Information Management User Interfaces
2018 INFEX: A Unifying Framework for Cross-Device Information Exploration and Exchange
2017 Fundamental Concepts for Interactive Paper and Cross-Media Information Spaces
2017 The Context Modelling Toolkit: A Unified Multi-Layered Context Modelling Approach
2016 A Multi-layered Context Modelling Approach for End Users, Expert Users and Programmers
2016 Towards User-defined Cross-Device Interaction
2008 A Framework for Developing Pervasive Cross-Media Applications based on Physical Hypermedia and Active Components
2007 As We May Link: A General Metamodel for Hypermedia Systems

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