Ambient Intelligence: Felling Carefree at Home

舒適的環境是指提供人愉悅感受的環境，像是人對環境的視覺或聽覺的感受，例如環境提供柔和的光、輕柔的自然聲音，讓人身處環境之中能讓心理層面上保持愉悅的感受而不會造成­人感覺過度緊張的氛圍。

Ambient Window 此作品的目的，即是希望藉由實體裝置去模擬出一種自然的氛圍，而不會讓使用者覺得突兀，也許是創造出自然的聲音或者是影像可以與使用者產生互動，讓這樣的互動能融入環境之­中。除了視覺或者聽覺的感受外，還希望這樣的環境能夠主動的感知使用者的行為，提供一些立即的回饋，讓使用者能夠跳脫環境的束縛，更增進放鬆心情的效果。

我們將整個環境的氛圍做了大幅的改變，我們運用沙發、燈、音響、咖啡機，與窗戶建置一個放鬆與自在的空間。除了這些裝置外，我們還運用了用來控制這些裝置的硬體，包括了K­28積電器、webcam，並且自製了sensors與hack了USB搖桿作為感應使用者的活動。

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Introduction
In house living, what people want most is environment that relax and carefree. However, people can not enjoy a comfortable living style in a compact living tempo.
A comfortable space can support people nice feeling in the sense of sigh and hearing, for example, the light can tone down the atmosphere of environment, and the light music can help people keep a good mood and can't feel strained. So that we create a environment which can detect user needs automatically. And provide a most comfortable environment in the situation that won't bother activities from user. The environment in this situation not only support user needs, but also improve the activities proceeded smoothly between people.
This research develops an environment by physical devices, and this environment can't let people feel sudden.
Except the sense of sight and hearing, this environment can automatically sense the activities of people and immediately provide responses. These responses can relax people.

Implementation
In this research, we substantially change the atmosphere of environment. We use five physical devices to build a space suit to a discussion in design. These physical devices include sofa, light, audio, coffee mill and window. Except these devices, we still use four devices to control those five physical devices. It include K28, webcam, sensors which made by us, and a USB device which is hacked by us. These control devices are in order to sense the activities of users.

The sofa:
When people are sitting on the sofa, the light can illuminate the environment;
This smart sofa can automatically perceive how much people on it;
If there is one person on the sofa, the light can't turn off until no one on the sofa;

The coffeemaker:
By sitting on the sofa, the coffeemaker will turn on and prepare people a nice coffee according to the amounts of people sitting on the sofa.

Window is background appliance:
When the user is back to home, the sensor will detect the movement of user.
At that time, a virtual bird would fly to the side of window.
This virtual bird will fly away if people's behaviors scare away it.
The window is in background and the bird's flying won't bother people's behavior.

Conclusion
In this research, we not only build a comfortable environment but also let environment has its own intelligence. This intelligent environment can automatically understand users' need, and it can automatically provide the suitable response.

In our intelligence space, the environment can only provide the sense of sight and hearing responses. It is not enough for people's need. In the future, we will design an environment that can provide people precise need. The environment can think of the intelligence of room temperature, humidity and smell.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Ambient
• Intelligence
• window
• computational
• design
• smart
• home
• Ubiquitous
• Computing
• Natural
• user-system
• interaction
• Contex