Anton Josef Fercher

Anton Josef Fercher
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt · Institute of Informatics Systems

Dipl.-Ing.

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Human evolution is intertwined with technology evolution, from wooden tools to computers. In the 1990s Weiser announces ubiquitous computing, and called for an re-imagining of computerized systems, making them “calm”. This chapter addresses the historical developments of smart environments in general and smart homes in particular, referring to firs...
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So-called natural interaction with smart homes has been limited by a misunderstanding of how humans naturally interact. Consider speech. Chatbots, developed to push the limits of voice-based interaction ignore the fact that natural human speech is actually multi-modal, supplemented both consciously and unconsciously by posture, gesture, facial expr...
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This book has been about the theoretical and practical work that went into developing a truly intuitive interface for controlling networked and embedded devices in the smart homes within and in parallel to the Casa Vecchia project. Both branches of that work continue, inside and outside of the Casa Vecchia system. In this final chapter we provide a...
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C.A.S.A. T.E.V.A. strives for the unification of a heterogeneous network with seamless switching between devices and intuitive interaction. Two mental models were put forward, each to enable intuitive multimodal interaction centered on either voice or gesture. The user could give voice commands to an invisible major domo, or could wave their smart...
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What is the difference between how information is presented in nature and on computers? According to Professor Mark Weiser, the core difference is the ease with which the new information can move from the focus to the periphery of our attention. Technology designed with this in mind allows the user to easily move in and out of a state of flow, work...
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Evolution of the smart home has, to a large extent, been driven by technological developments, frequently neglecting actual human needs and habits. To realize the vision of the Wise Home, a shift to a more human-centered approach is needed. In order to move to a more natural interaction, we must first accept that current interaction paradigms are u...
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Our multimodal interaction is based on a smartphone app that combines GUI, text, gestures and voice commands as a step towards intuitive human communication with a smart home. Shown how to perform two tasks, 32 participants were asked to intuit how to perform seven other tasks using networked and embedded devices through intuitive multimodal intera...
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As with all other experimentation, the formal testing of our S.N.A.R.K circuit was not conducted by flawless supermen who worked without error or setback. One of the joys of science is the sharing of our experimental limitations and the procedures that allowed us to cope with them. In this chapter, we share examples of the events that surprised us...
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The C.A.S.A. T.E.V.A. system was not designed solely to perform tasks with measurable success. The core intent was to design a new experimental means of interaction with a complex network of embedded devices that would not feel new, experimental, or complex. In this chapter we present the qualitative methods used to capture the feelings and opinion...
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Humans perceive the world not as it is, but as we imagine it. Specifically, we do not process what we perceive in real time. Instead we make irregular updates to a mental model of the world around us, and it is that mental model with which we interact. In order to interact successfully with any environment, we need to have a functional mental model...
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In order to test the C.A.S.A. T.E.V.A. concept in the Casa Vecchia setting without disrupting the lives of the families living in our smart homes, we brought 38 international participants into a functional smart home lab based on the campus of the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, in southern Austria. They were introduced to the system and asked...
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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 hun...
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The smart home, ambient intelligence and ambient assisted living have been intensively researched for decades. Although rural areas are an important potential market, because they represent about 80% of the territory of the EU countries and around 125 million inhabitants, there is currently a lack of applicable AAL solutions. This paper discusses t...
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We propose the prototype of a quantitative metric for evaluating whether or not a piece of technology is "Calm". Our approach is based on Weiser's vision of Calm Technology (CT) and on the principles of Anthropology-Based Computing (ABC) and Peripheral Interaction (PI). Our hope is to derive feedback from this workshop that will allow us to further...
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Das Smart Home mit all seinen Möglichkeiten und Funktionen hat sich im privaten Wohnumfeld bisher nicht durchgesetzt. Die Gründe dafür sind vielschichtig, Aspekte der Human Computer Interaction (HCI) spielen dabei aber eine entscheidende Rolle. Anhand des aktuellen Leitkonzepts der HCI, User Experience, analysiert der Beitrag Bedieneigenschaften un...
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Das Smart Home mit all seinen Möglichkeiten und Funktionen hat sich im privaten Wohnumfeld bisher nicht durchgesetzt. Die Gründe dafür sind vielschichtig, Aspekte der Human Computer Interaction (HCI) spielen dabei aber eine entscheidende Rolle. Anhand des aktuellen Leitkonzepts der HCI, User Experience, analysiert der Beitrag Bedieneigenschaften un...
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Smart technology for the private home holds promising solutions, specifically in the context of population overaging. The widespread usage of smart home technology will have influences on computing para- digms, such as an increased need for end user programming which will be accompanied by new usability challenges. This paper describes the evaluati...
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As one of the major goals in the ambient assisted living project Casa Vecchia (performed in 20 real world household installations) we want to thoroughly evaluate the life circumstances of elderly people in order to be able to establish a basic ontology including all relevant factors that are actually or potentially influencing the acceptance of AAL...
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Ambient assisted living holds promising solutions to tackle the problems of an overaging society by providing various smart home as well as computing and internet technologies that support independent living of elderly people. However, the acceptance of these technologies by the group of elderly constitutes a crucial precondition for the success of...
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Population over aging is at present a widely discussed and researched challenge that society will have to face in the future. Research on ambient assisted living (AAL) yields promising solutions to master those challenges and the IT industry meanwhile has identified AAL as an important future market. However, AAL solutions which are adequate for la...
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Studies in economic psychology have repeatedly revealed that energy consumption behavior in the household could be optimized through the provision of frequent and immediate feedback. This aspect is still widely neglected by conventional metering equipment installed in most homes. Energy meters are generally placed at quite hidden locations and read...
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Energy saving is an important issue espe-cially in times of shortages of resources and increasing energy prices. Different areas of research are investigat-ing the relevant factors. In economic psychology, e.g., one research issue is focused on the aspects related to energy consumption and saving in the household. Most studies carried out in the la...

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