365 DAYS AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE IN HOMELAB - Philips Research
365 DAYS AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE IN HOMELAB - Philips Research
365 DAYS AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE IN HOMELAB - Philips Research
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Ambient 05-05-2003 12:37 Pagina 16<br />
Intelligent<br />
REMOTE CONTROLS<br />
Tatiana Lashina, <strong>Philips</strong> <strong>Research</strong><br />
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Hypothesis: Interactive devices will<br />
bring more value if they take account<br />
of the user’s context when attracting<br />
the user’s attention<br />
Concept: Make a remote control context<br />
aware by adding sensors to perceive<br />
and interpret its context to adapt<br />
the way it attracts the user’s attention<br />
Results: Participants valued context<br />
aware behavior of the device as it<br />
prevented missing reminders and<br />
eliminated irrelevant notifications<br />
In the drive to improve the experience<br />
people get when interacting with a<br />
product we explore novel intelligent<br />
interaction techniques. One such technique<br />
is making a system context-aware so that it<br />
can adapt and react to changes in the<br />
environment. For this, the concept of a<br />
personal remote control (PRC) was<br />
developed. This remote control with a color<br />
touch screen contains an Electronic Program<br />
Guide with a recommender function that<br />
filters a complete listing of programs to only<br />
those matching a user’s personal profile.<br />
With this information, the PRC can remind<br />
users of upcoming programs of interest.<br />
A common problem with conventional<br />
portable devices with an alarm function is<br />
that they either irritate us by disturbing at<br />
the wrong moment or fail to inform us of<br />
events we wanted to be reminded of. We<br />
made the PRC context-aware as we wanted<br />
to avoid such problems. Equipped with a
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