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Eye-based Direct Interaction for Environmental Control in Heterogeneous Smart Environments

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environmental control is the control, operation, and monitoring of an environment via intermediary technology such as a computer. Typically this means control of a domestic home.Within the scope of COGAIN, this environmental control concerns the control of the personal environment of a person (with or without a disability). This defines environmental control as the control of a home or domestic setting and those objects that are within that setting. Thus, we may say that environmental control systems enable anyone to operate a wide range of domestic appliances and other vital functions in the home by remote control. In recent years the problem of self-sufficiency for older people and people with a disability has attracted increasing attention and resources. The search for new solutions that can guarantee greater autonomy and a better quality of life has begun to exploit easily available state-of-the-art technology. Personal environmental control can be considered to be a comprehensive and effective aid, adaptable to the functional possibilities of the user and to their desired actions.

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  1. Politecnico di Torino, Dip. di Automatica e Informatica, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129, Torino, Italy

    Fulvio Corno

  2. Applied Vision Research Centre, Loughborough University, Garendon Wing, Holywell Park, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK

    Alastair Gale

  3. Unit for Computer-Human Interaction (TAUCHI), Department of Computer Sciences, FI-33014 University of Tampere, Finland

    Päivi Majaranta & Kari-Jouko Räihä

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  1. Future University Hakodate, Kameda-Nakano 116-2, Hakodate, Hokkaido, 041-8655, Japan

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  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, 94305-9515, USA

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  3. School of Computing & Mathematics, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, UK, BT37 0QB

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Corno, F., Gale, A., Majaranta, P., Räihä, KJ. (2010). Eye-based Direct Interaction for Environmental Control in Heterogeneous Smart Environments. In: Nakashima, H., Aghajan, H., Augusto, J.C. (eds) Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93808-0_41

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