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With the relentless advance in sensing technologies, we are witnessing an increasing number of sophisticated smart home deployments covering a wide spectrum of applications including health monitoring and home automation. However, the inherent complexity of real-world deployment is significantly challenging current smart home systems; such complexity includes the inherently imperfect nature of sensing technologies, the dynamic nature of human behaviour, and the unpredictability of situations or events occurring in the home. Various problems accrue as a result of such complexity; these include decreased accuracies in recognising human activities over time and subsequent degradation of the performance of smart home systems with negative implications for user experience.
The objective of this Special Issue is to present the state-of-the-art in sensing technologies for the smart home; document realistic experiences of long-term, real-world smart home deployments; explore novel intelligent algorithms to discover and adapt smart home systems to changes in human daily routines and other contexts; and present new research challenges and opportunities in the smart home domain.
Original, high-quality contributions from both academia and industry are sought. Manuscripts submitted for review should not have been published elsewhere or be under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Novel sensing technologies for smart homes;
Standardisation initiatives applicable to smart homes;
Internet of Things approaches for smart homes;
Privacy, security, and data management within smart homes;
User experiences of smart home technologies;
Human activity recognition, both predictive and in near real time;
Interaction design and novel user interfaces for smart homes;
Approaches to modelling computational and social intelligence within smart homes;
Novel applications and services for the smart home;
Smart homes and their inter-relationship with smart cities.
The editors are particularly interested in receiving submissions that consider the following issues:
The lifelong learning of occupant behaviour in smart home systems;
Human-centred learning in smart home systems;
Methodologies for benchmarking smart home platforms and services;
Ethical and privacy-preservation approaches to smart homes.
Dr. Juan Ye
Dr. Michael O'Grady
Dr. Oresti Banos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
Sensing technologies
Intelligence systems
Context reasoning
Intelligent user interfaces
Smart environments
Published Papers
This special issue is now open for submission.
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