Abstract
Ambient Intelligence and Ambient Assisted Living systems are required to provide a natural user experience, where the interaction is resolved by using devices and modalities adapted to the user abilities and preferences, and even to the environment conditions. Because of the variety of devices and technologies, and the diversity of scenarios, developing these interaction systems is a complicated task. This paper proposes an UI abstraction framework for the development of AmI and AAL systems that effectively improves the portability of those systems between different environments. It allows developers to design and implement a single UI capable of being deployed with different devices and modalities regardless the physical location.
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This work has been partially funded by the Xunta de Galicia and European Regional Development Funds under grants GRC 2013-050 and redTEIC network (R2014/037).
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Varela, G., Paz-Lopez, A., Becerra, J.A., Duro, R.J. (2015). Improving the Portability of Ambient Intelligence Systems. In: Cleland, I., Guerrero, L., Bravo, J. (eds) Ambient Assisted Living. ICT-based Solutions in Real Life Situations. IWAAL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9455. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26410-3_8
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