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Development of a future Intelligent Sweet Home for the disabled

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This article introduces a new smart house, the Intelligent Sweet Home, developed at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, for testing advanced concepts for independent living for elderly and physically handicapped individuals. The work focuses on human-friendly technical solutions for motion/mobility assistance, health monitoring, and advanced human–machine interfaces that provide easy control of both assistive devices and home-installed appliances. The smart house behaves in accordance with the user's commands, the user's intentions, and the user's current health status. Various interfaces based on hand gestures, voice, body movement and posture, and the health monitoring system were studied and tested. This article emphasizes the structure of the system.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-701, Korea

    Ju-Jang Lee, Kap-Ho Seo, Changmok Oh & Z. Zenn Bien

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This work was presented in part at the 11th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita, Japan, January 23–25, 2006

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Lee, JJ., Seo, KH., Oh, C. et al. Development of a future Intelligent Sweet Home for the disabled. Artif Life Robotics 11, 8–12 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-006-0417-5

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