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Visual End-User Programming of Personalized AAL in the Internet of Things

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Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2017)

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Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) promotes independent living, while the Internet of Things (IoT) proliferates as the dominant technology for the deployment of pervasive smart objects. In this work, we focus on the delivery of an AAL framework utilizing IoT technologies, while addressing the demand for very customized automations due to the diverse and fluid (can change over time) user requirements. The latter turns the idea of a general-purpose application suite to fit all users mostly unrealistic and suboptimal. Driven by the popularity of visual programming tools, especially for children, we focused in directly enabling end-users, including carers, family or friends, even the elderly/disabled themselves, to easily craft and modify custom automations. In this paper we firstly discuss scenarios of highly personalized AAL automations through smart objects, and then elaborate on the capabilities of the visual tools we are currently developing on a basis of a brief case study.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Yannis Valsamakis & Anthony Savidis

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

    Anthony Savidis

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  2. Center for Research in Security and Privacy CRISP, Darmstadt, Germany

    Reiner Wichert

  3. University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain

    Antonio Maña

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Valsamakis, Y., Savidis, A. (2017). Visual End-User Programming of Personalized AAL in the Internet of Things. In: Braun, A., Wichert, R., Maña, A. (eds) Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10217. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56997-0_13

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