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HomeWindow: an augmented reality domestic monitor

Published: 09 March 2009 Publication History

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Computation is increasingly prevalent in the home: it serves as a way to control the home itself, or it is part of the many digital appliances within it. The question is: how can home inhabitants effectively understand and control the digital home? Our solution lets a person examine and control their home surroundings through a mobile display that serves as a 'magic lens', where the detail shown varies with proximity. In particular, HomeWindow is an augmented reality system that superimposes an interactive graphical interface atop of physical but digital artifacts in the home. One can get an overview of a room's computational state by looking through the display: the basic state of all digital hot spots are shown atop their physical counterparts. As one approaches a particular digital spot, more detailed information as well as a control interface is shown using a semantic zoom. Our current implementation works with two home devices. First, people can examine and remotely control the status of mobile domestic robots. Second, people can discover the power consumption of household appliances, where appliances are surrounded by a colorful aura that reflects its current and historical energy use.

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Rekimoto, J., and Nagao, K. 1995. The World through the Computer: Computer Augmented Interaction with Real World Environments. UIST '95.
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Sony AIBO, http://support.sony-europe.com/aibo/
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Watts Up Pro, https://www.wattsupmeters.com/secure/index.php

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  • (2020)Design and development of IoT-based latency-optimized augmented reality framework in home automation and telemetry for smart lifestyleJournal of Reliable Intelligent Environments10.1007/s40860-020-00106-1Online publication date: 25-May-2020

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HRI '09: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
March 2009
348 pages
ISBN:9781605584041
DOI:10.1145/1514095

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Published: 09 March 2009

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  1. augmented reality
  2. domestic computing ubiquitous computing.
  3. energy awareness
  4. human-robot interaction

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HRI09: International Conference on Human Robot Interaction
March 9 - 13, 2009
California, La Jolla, USA

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  • (2020)Design and development of IoT-based latency-optimized augmented reality framework in home automation and telemetry for smart lifestyleJournal of Reliable Intelligent Environments10.1007/s40860-020-00106-1Online publication date: 25-May-2020

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