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Smart views in smart meeting rooms
Ziel der Dissertation ist es, eine Problemlösung zu entwickeln für die Generierung und Anzeige von Informationsrepräsentationen und die Interaktion mit diesen Informationsrepräsentationen in Smart Meeting Rooms, unter Berücksichtigung der Heterogenität und Dynamik der Umgebung. Für die Präsentation von Informationen in Smart Meeting Rooms wird das Konzept des Smart View Managements und für die Interaktion wird das Konzept des Smart Interaction Managements vorgestellt. Auf Basis dieser beiden Konzepte werden Methoden zur interaktiven Manipulation der Informationsrepräsentationen vorgestellt
Assistierte Informationsanzeige in Smart Meeting Rooms
Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, Konzepte für eine assistierte Informationsanzeige in Smart Meeting Rooms bereitzustellen. Dafür werden 3 Modelle erarbeitet. Hierauf basierend wird das Austauschen von Inhalten zwischen mehreren Geräten und das automatische Verteilen und Anordnen von Views auf unterschiedlichen Displays adressiert. Ein Ansatz zur interaktiven, bedarfsgerechten Erzeugung von neuen Darstellungen wird vorgestellt. Manuelles Anpassen der Anzeige und die Suche nach semantisch passenden Inhalten wird durch Hilfsmittel unterstützt. Eine situationsangepasste Assistenz wird beschrieben
Mixed reality participants in smart meeting rooms and smart home enviroments
Human–computer interaction requires modeling of the user. A user profile typically contains preferences, interests, characteristics, and interaction behavior. However, in its multimodal interaction with a smart environment the user displays characteristics that show how the user, not necessarily consciously, verbally and nonverbally provides the smart environment with useful input and feedback. Especially in ambient intelligence environments we encounter situations where the environment supports interaction between the environment, smart objects (e.g., mobile robots, smart furniture) and human participants in the environment. Therefore it is useful for the profile to contain a physical representation of the user obtained by multi-modal capturing techniques. We discuss the modeling and simulation of interacting participants in a virtual meeting room, we discuss how remote meeting participants can take part in meeting activities and they have some observations on translating research results to smart home environments
Meetings and Meeting Modeling in Smart Environments
In this paper we survey our research on smart meeting rooms and its relevance for augmented reality meeting support and virtual reality generation of meetings in real time or off-line. The research reported here forms part of the European 5th and 6th framework programme projects multi-modal meeting manager (M4) and augmented multi-party interaction (AMI). Both projects aim at building a smart meeting environment that is able to collect multimodal captures of the activities and discussions in a meeting room, with the aim to use this information as input to tools that allow real-time support, browsing, retrieval and summarization of meetings. Our aim is to research (semantic) representations of what takes place during meetings in order to allow generation, e.g. in virtual reality, of meeting activities (discussions, presentations, voting, etc.). Being able to do so also allows us to look at tools that provide support during a meeting and at tools that allow those not able to be physically present during a meeting to take part in a virtual way. This may lead to situations where the differences between real meeting participants, human-controlled virtual participants and (semi-) autonomous virtual participants disappear
Policy Design for Controlling Set-Point Temperature of ACs in Shared Spaces of Buildings
Air conditioning systems are responsible for the major percentage of energy
consumption in buildings. Shared spaces constitute considerable office space
area, in which most office employees perform their meetings and daily tasks,
and therefore the ACs in these areas have significant impact on the energy
usage of the entire office building. The cost of this energy consumption,
however, is not paid by the shared space users, and the AC's temperature
set-point is not determined based on the users' preferences. This latter factor
is compounded by the fact that different people may have different choices of
temperature set-points and sensitivities to change of temperature. Therefore,
it is a challenging task to design an office policy to decide on a particular
set-point based on such a diverse preference set. As a result, users are not
aware of the energy consumption in shared spaces, which may potentially
increase the energy wastage and related cost of office buildings. In this
context, this paper proposes an energy policy for an office shared space by
exploiting an established temperature control mechanism. In particular, we
choose meeting rooms in an office building as the test case and design a policy
according to which each user of the room can give a preference on the
temperature set-point and is paid for felt discomfort if the set-point is not
fixed according to the given preference. On the other hand, users who enjoy the
thermal comfort compensate the other users of the room. Thus, the policy
enables the users to be cognizant and responsible for the payment on the energy
consumption of the office space they are sharing, and at the same time ensures
that the users are satisfied either via thermal comfort or through incentives.
The policy is also shown to be beneficial for building management. Through
experiment based case studies, we show the effectiveness of the proposed
policy.Comment: Journal paper accepted in Energy & Buildings (Elsevier
Pro-active Meeting Assistants : Attention Please!
This paper gives an overview of pro-active meeting assistants, what they are and when they can be useful. We explain how to develop such assistants with respect to requirement definitions and elaborate on a set of Wizard of Oz experiments, aiming to find out in which form a meeting assistant should operate to be accepted by participants and whether the meeting effectiveness and efficiency can be improved by an assistant at all
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