Title: How to communicate smartly with your house?

Authors: Jose Rouillard, Jean-Claude Tarby

Addresses: LIFL Laboratory, University of Lille1, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex, France. ' LIFL Laboratory, University of Lille1, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex, France

Abstract: We are involved in conceiving and implementing man–machine interfaces allowing multimodal and situated dialogue in order to interact with smart digital environments. Several methods are presented depending on how and what the user can say. We describe our approach and some tracks to permit to end-users to communicate more naturally with their house, by speech or by gesture, for instance. Some applications based on workflow description are presented to show how designers are able to model their own man–machine dialogue. Finally, this work is complemented with a Model Driven Engineering approach using Statecharts for a smart digital home.

Keywords: human–machine interface; HMI; smart homes; digital homes; voice interaction; workflow; statecharts; multimodal dialogue; situated dialogue; communications; speech; gesture; model driven engineering.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2011.040116

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2011 Vol.7 No.3, pp.155 - 162

Published online: 18 May 2011 *

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