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This book describes an innovative approach to the interaction
between humans and a smart environment; an attempt to get a smart
home to understand intuitive, multi-modal, human-centred
communication. State of the art smart homes, like other "smart"
technology, tend to demand that the human user must adapt herself
to the needs of the system. The hunt for a truly user-centred,
truly intuitive system has long proven to be beyond the grasp of
current technology. When humans speak with one another, we are
multimodal. Our speech is supplemented with gestures, which serve
as a parallel stream of information, reinforcing the meaning of our
words. Drawing on well-established protocols in engineering and
psychology, and with no small amount of inspiration from a
particular nonsense poem, we have successfully concluded that hunt.
This book describes the efforts, undertaken over several years, to
design, implement, and test a model of interaction that allows
untrained individuals to intuitively control a complex series of
networked and embedded systems. The theoretical concepts are
supported by a series of experimental studies, showing the
advantages of the novel approach, and pointing towards future work
that would facilitate the deployment of this concept in the real
world.
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