Novel Consumer-to-Product Interactions with Context-Aware Embedded Platforms
Pages 513 - 524
Abstract
In this work we suggest a new device to instrument everyday objects in the end-user life cycle phase that makes everyday life easier for the elderly. The instrumentation of products, such as food, transforms them into smarter and more intelligent products. The equipped product notifies the user when food is spoiled and--interconnected with other smart products--advises against side effects that occur when food is consumed while a certain medication is ingested. We describe the considerations that were made towards a first prototype from a technical perspective. An interaction model was developed, a requirements analysis performed and several design and development considerations made. An architecture shows the information flow between sensors, actuators, and the Internet of Things. In the end, the prototype of a product sleeve is presented that is easy to handle and intuitive to operate. A feedback study is planned in the near future.
References
[1]
Statistisches Bundesamt Destatis: Just released - statistical yearbook October 2012, www.destatis.de/EN/PressServices/Press/pr/2012/10/PE12_351_p001.html accessed at January 29, 2014
[2]
Nesselrath, R., Haupert, J., Frey, J., Brandherm, B.: Supporting persons with special needs in their daily life in a smart home. In: 2011 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments IE, pp. 370---373 2011
[3]
P, G.: HOPE- eectronic gadget for home bound patients and elders: Create the future design contest June 2012, http://contest.techbriefs.com/2012/entries/medical/2659 accessed at January 29, 2014
[4]
Dovgan, E., Lutrek, M., Pogorelc, B., Gradiek, A., Bruger, H., Gams, M.: Intelligent elderly-care prototype for fall and disease detection. Slovenian Medical Journal 8011 January 2011
[5]
Ashton, K.: That 'internet of things' thing June 2009, www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?4986 accessed at January 29, 2014
[6]
Weiser, M.: Some computer science issues in ubiquitous computing. Commun. ACM 367, 75---84 1993
[7]
Zaslavsky, A., Perera, C., Georgakopoulos, D.: Sensing as a service and big data. arXiv:1301.0159 {cs} January 2013, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Cloud Computing ACC, Bangalore, India July 2012
[8]
Brandherm, B., Kröner, A.: Digital product memories and product life cycle. In: 2011 7th International Conference on Intelligent Environments IE, pp. 374---377 2011
[9]
Dey, A.K.: Understanding and using context. Personal Ubiquitous Comput. 51, 4---7 2001
[10]
Perera, C., Zaslavsky, A.B., Christen, P., Georgakopoulos, D.: Context aware computing for the internet of things: A survey. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials Journal abs/1305.0982 2013
[11]
Kröner, A., Haupert, J., Seiler, M., Kiesel, B., Schennerlein, B., Horn, S., Schreiber, D., Barthel, R.: Object memory modeling September 2011, www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/omm/XGR-omm-20111026/ accessed at January 29, 2014
[12]
Haupert, J.: Domeman: A framework for representation, management, and utilization of digital object memories. In: Augusto, J.C., Bourdakis, V., Braga, D., Egerton, S., Fujinami, K., Hunter, G., Kawsar, F., Lotfi, A., Preuveneers, D., Binabdulrahman, A.W., Zamudio, V. eds. 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments IE 2013, July 18-19, pp. 84---91. IEEE, Athen 2013
[13]
Kröner, A., Haupert, J., Hauck, C., Deru, M., Bergweiler, S.: Fostering access to data collections in the internet of things. In: Narzt, W., Gordon-Ross, A. eds. UBICOMM 2013, The Seventh International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies, pp. 65---68. IARIA September 2013 Best Paper Award
[14]
Resatsch, F., Sandner, U., Leimeister, J.M., Krcmar, H.: Do point of sale RFID-Based information services make a difference? analyzing consumer perceptions for designing smart product information services in retail business. Electronic Markets 183, 216---231 2008
[15]
Brandherm, B., Kröner, A., Haupert, J.: Incycling: Sustainable concept for instrumenting everyday commodities. In: Proceedings of the 2011 International Workshop on Networking and Object Memories for the Internet of Things, NoME-IoT 2011, pp. 27---28. ACM, New York 2011
[16]
Deru, M., Bergweiler, S.: Milky: On-product app for emotional product to human interactions. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2013, pp. 552---557. ACM, New York 2013
[17]
Sen.se: Mother January 2014, http://sen.se/store/mother accessed at January 29, 2014
[18]
Mühlhäuser, M.: Smart products: An introduction. In: Mühlhäuser, M., Ferscha, A., Aitenbichler, E. eds. Constructing Ambient Intelligence. CCIS, vol. 11, pp. 158---164. Springer, Heidelberg 2008
[19]
Meyer, G.G., Främling, K., Holmström, J.: Intelligent products: A survey. Computers in Industry 603, 137---148 2009
[20]
Gershenfeld, N.A.: When things start to think. Henry Holt, New York 1999
[21]
Kröner, A., Haupert, J., GeaFernndez, J., Steffen, R., Kleegrewe, C., Schneider, M.: Supporting interaction with digital product memories. In: Wahlster, W. ed. SemProM. Cognitive Technologies, pp. 223---242. Springer, Heidelberg 2013
[22]
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology: Project of the future: Industry 4.0 March 2013, www.bmbf.de/en/19955.php accessed at January 29, 2014
[23]
Carroll, A., Heiser, G.: An analysis of power consumption in a smartphone. In: Proceedings of the 2010 USENIX Conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIXATC 2010, p. 21. USENIX Association, Berkeley 2010
[24]
Niskanen, I., Kantorovitch, J.: Towards the future smart products systems design. In: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops PERCOM Workshops, pp. 313---315 2011
[25]
Hodges, S., Taylor, S., Villar, N., Scott, J., Bial, D., Fischer, P.T.: Prototyping connected devices for the internet of things. Computer 462, 26---34 2013
Recommendations
The Internet of Things Supporting Context-Aware Computing: A Cultural Heritage Case Study
We're currently shifting from the Information Age to the Intelligence Age. The Intelligence Age will be characterized by autonomous communication between intelligent devices that are sensitive to a person's presence and respond by performing a specific ...
Enablement of IoT Based Context-Aware Smart Home with Fog Computing
The recent advent of Internet of Things IoT, has given rise to a plethora of smart verticals-smart homes being one of them. Smart Home is a classic example of IoT, wherein smart appliances connected via home gateways constitute a local home network to ...
Context Aware Computing for Ambient Assisted Living
ICOST 2016: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Inclusive Smart Cities and Digital Health - Volume 9677With the prevalence of wireless technologies, cloud computing and the rapid growth of deployed smart sensors in the past few years, we live in an increasingly interconnected world. These technologies have fostered the dissemination of the Internet of ...
Comments
Information & Contributors
Information
Published In
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Berlin, Heidelberg
Publication History
Published: 22 June 2014
Author Tags
Qualifiers
- Article
Contributors
Other Metrics
Bibliometrics & Citations
Bibliometrics
Article Metrics
- 0Total Citations
- 0Total Downloads
- Downloads (Last 12 months)0
- Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0
Reflects downloads up to 04 Sep 2024
Other Metrics
Citations
View Options
View options
Get Access
Login options
Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.
Sign in