Gerhard Leitner: 2 books
Building an Intuitive Multimodal Interface for a Smart Home
Hunting the SNARK
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
This book describes an innovative approach to the interaction between humans and a smart environment; an attempt to get a smart home to understand intuitive, multi-modal, human-centred communication. State of the art smart homes, like other “smart” technology, tend to demand that the human user...
The Future Home is Wise, Not Smart
A Human-Centric Perspective on Next Generation Domestic Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This book introduces the concept of the wise home. Whilst smart homes focus on automation technologies, forcing users to deal with complex and incomprehensible control and programming procedures, the wise home is different. By going beyond intelligence (or smartness) the wise home puts technology...