Vega-Barbas Mario, Pau Iván, Martín-Ruiz María Luisa, Seoane Fernando
School of Technology and Health, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Huddinge SE-14152, Sweden.
SIC research group, ETSIST, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Ctra. Valencia Km. 7, Madrid 28038, Spain.
Sensors (Basel). 2015 Mar 25;15(4):7294-322. doi: 10.3390/s150407294.
Smart spaces foster the development of natural and appropriate forms of human-computer interaction by taking advantage of home customization. The interaction potential of the Smart Home, which is a special type of smart space, is of particular interest in fields in which the acceptance of new technologies is limited and restrictive. The integration of smart home design patterns with sensitive solutions can increase user acceptance. In this paper, we present the main challenges that have been identified in the literature for the successful deployment of sensitive services (e.g., telemedicine and assistive services) in smart spaces and a software architecture that models the functionalities of a Smart Home platform that are required to maintain and support such sensitive services. This architecture emphasizes user interaction as a key concept to facilitate the acceptance of sensitive services by end-users and utilizes activity theory to support its innovative design. The application of activity theory to the architecture eases the handling of novel concepts, such as understanding of the system by patients at home or the affordability of assistive services. Finally, we provide a proof-of-concept implementation of the architecture and compare the results with other architectures from the literature.
智能空间通过利用家庭定制来促进自然且恰当的人机交互形式的发展。智能家居作为一种特殊类型的智能空间，其交互潜力在新技术接受度有限且具有限制性的领域中尤为引人关注。将智能家居设计模式与敏感解决方案相结合能够提高用户接受度。在本文中，我们呈现了文献中所确定的在智能空间成功部署敏感服务（如远程医疗和辅助服务）的主要挑战，以及一个对智能家居平台功能进行建模的软件架构，这些功能是维护和支持此类敏感服务所必需的。该架构强调用户交互是促进终端用户接受敏感服务的关键概念，并利用活动理论来支持其创新设计。将活动理论应用于该架构便于处理新颖的概念，例如患者在家中对系统的理解或辅助服务的可承受性。最后，我们提供了该架构的概念验证实现，并将结果与文献中的其他架构进行比较。
