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Towards Self-Explaining Ambient Applications

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B�rge Kordts,

Bennet Gerlach,

Andreas SchraderAuthors Info & Claims

PETRA '21: Proceedings of the 14th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference

Pages 383 - 390

https://doi.org/10.1145/3453892.3461325

Published: 29 June 2021 Publication History

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In the past decade, pervasive environments have emerged from promising research concepts to available products present in our everyday lives. By connecting multiple smart objects, device ensembles can be formed to assist users in performing tasks. Furthermore, smart objects can be used to control applications, that, in turn, can be used to control other smart objects. While dynamically connecting these components allows for solutions tailored to the needs and respective tasks of a user, it obfuscates the handling and ultimately may decrease usability.

Self-descriptions have been proposed to overcome this issue for ensembles of smart objects. For a more extensive approach, descriptions of applications in pervasive environments need to be addressed as well. Based on previous research in the context of self-explainability of smart objects, we propose a description language as well as a framework to support self-explaining ambient applications (applications that are used within smart environments). The framework can be used to dynamically connect smart objects as well as ambient applications and to realize self-explainability for these interconnected device and application ensembles.

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PETRA '21: Proceedings of the 14th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference

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ISBN:9781450387927

DOI:10.1145/3453892

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