Ambient Interface Design (AID) for the Ergonomically Challenged

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Author(s): Rosaleen Hegarty (University of Ulster, UK), Tom Lunney (University of Ulster, UK), Kevin Curran (University of Ulster, UK)and Maurice Mulvenna (University of Ulster, UK)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 8
Source title: Innovative Applications of Ambient Intelligence: Advances in Smart Systems
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Kevin Curran (University of Ulster, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0038-6.ch010

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence / Computer Science & IT / Information Science Reference

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Mobile devices offer convenient communication capabilities and have the potential to create intermediary support for ergonomically challenged users. With the global proliferation of increasing longevity, assisting the elderly and those living with impediments through human engineering and computing technology is pivotal to biotechnological attainment. To remain independently empowered, seamless integrations through efficient affable interfaces are required to provide sedulous location-independent and appliance-sensitive media viewing for the user. The Ambient Interface Design (AID) system assists with finding personal preferences and provides a synchronisation framework, coordinating connectivity across various environmentally distributed devices via sensor data mapping. Cooperative interface communication coupled with context awareness will be abstracted to a representation that facilitates optimisation and customisation to these displays. To overcome personal challenges in the efficient selection and acquisition of online information, AID mediates between the needs of the user and the constraints of the technology to provide a singular customised encapsulation of ‘ability preference and device’ for each authenticated member. A particular emphasis is the application of a human-centered design ethos.

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