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The virtual room inhabitant: intuitive interaction with intelligent environments

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Michael Kruppa,

Lübomira Spassova,

Michael SchmitzAuthors Info & Claims

AI'05: Proceedings of the 18th Australian Joint conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Pages 225 - 234

https://doi.org/10.1007/11589990_25

Published: 05 December 2005 Publication History

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In this paper we describe a new way to improve the usability of complex hardware setups in Intelligent Environments. By introducing a virtual character, we facilitate intuitive interaction with our Intelligent Environment. The character is capable of freely moving along the walls of the room. The character is aware of the users position and orientation within the room. In this way, it may offer situated assistance as well as unambiguous references to physical objects by means of combined gestures, speech and physical locomotion. We make use of a steerable projector and a spatial audio system, in order to position the character within the environment.

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Nijholt A(2008)Google homeInformation Sciences: an International Journal10.1016/j.ins.2007.08.026178:3(612-630)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.ins.2007.08.026

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AI'05: Proceedings of the 18th Australian Joint conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence

December 2005

1344 pages

ISBN:3540304622

Editors:
Shichao Zhang
Guangxi Normal University, College of CS and IT, Guilin, China, and University of Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, Sydney, Australia
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Ray Jarvis
Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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Published: 05 December 2005

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Körber YHenze NWoźniak PVäänänen KWilliamson JSchneegass S(2017)Device selection for speech output in a multi-user scenarioProceedings of the 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia10.1145/3152832.3156624(363-370)Online publication date: 26-Nov-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3152832.3156624
Satoh IMcCann JLauria MCotroneo DBaker M(2009)A context-aware service framework for large-scale ambient computing environmentsProceedings of the 2009 international conference on Pervasive services10.1145/1568199.1568233(199-208)Online publication date: 13-Jul-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1568199.1568233
Nijholt A(2008)Google homeInformation Sciences: an International Journal10.1016/j.ins.2007.08.026178:3(612-630)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.ins.2007.08.026

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