Ambient intelligence represents an environment, which adapts and makes
decisions based on the observation of user's activities and context [1], [2]. By
prototyping ambient intelligence interfaces, we want to study ways to bring the
technology of smart environments closer to the end user, so that they become
part of his daily life. We aim that interfaces and systems of ambient intelligence
are responsive, ubiquitous and adaptable to user's needs. During the
development of the prototype we employed the principles of natural interfaces,
more specifically presence detection and gesture-based control. The final
prototype enables the user to control Kodi multimedia player by using hand
gestures. A prototype consists of several inputs as well as outputs. In order to
connect entities quickly and transparently and integrate intelligence into our
system, we utilised visual flow-based programming framework Node-RED.
Perhaps the most important step in development of a prototype is end-user
testing, as this is the only way to gain insight into the usability of our prototype,
therefore, we performed user testing in the laboratory and analyzed the obtained
results.
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