The document describes research on personal attentive systems (PAS) that aim to provide feedback to users at optimal times and through appropriate modalities based on their context. It outlines the conceptual architecture of a PAS including components for collecting raw context data, interpreting the data to infer the user's situation, modeling contextual domain knowledge, reasoning over the context to classify accessible devices, and making decisions about providing personalized and timed feedback. The goal is to evaluate PAS for helping users develop healthy habits by intervening at relevant moments and adapting the feedback based on the inferred context. Future work includes implementing and integrating the individual components and conducting field studies.
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Context-aware personal-attentive systems
1. Context-aware Personal Attentive Systems
Tom Tourw辿, Elena Tsiporkova (Sirris, BE)
Ville Antila (VTT, FI)
Monique Hendriks (Philips, NL)
het collectief centrum van de Belgische technologische industrie
2. Smarcos Goal & motivation
Smarcos aims to improve the interusability of interconnected
embedded devices
Smarcos relies on the solid technological basis for system-
level interoperability resulting from other EU R&D projects
Eg. ARTEMIS-Sofia and FP7-SmartProducts
Smarcos addresses challenges arising from user-level
interaction of interconnected systems
Cross-platform interaction
Multi-user and multi-device collaboration
Synchronisation of system actions to maintain fluent task flow
Application and service adaptation to changing situational
contexts
4. Personal attentive systems
People have difficulty incorporating healthy habits into their
daily life
Office workers: working on a computer, prolonged sitting,
deadlines, meetings, travel by car
Diabetes type II patients: monitoring of glucose levels, effects of
food, medicine adherence, physical activity, learning to cope with
the disease
Doctors and lifestyle coaches can provide advice, but they
cannot
Intervene at the right moment
Provide feedback on behaviour directly afterwards
Have intricate knowledge of peoples daily routine
6. Conceptual architecture
Determine content, timing &
Decision Engine modality of feedback
Context Context Infer new knowledge from
Reasoner Models information
Transform raw data into infor-
Context Interpreter mation about the user context
Capture raw data from device
Data Layer sensors
7. Data Layer
Life-pattern detection
through life logging
Low-power context logging software
Semantic location detection using cell-id
(low power, always available)
Device usage detection (algorithms for
mining location relative to smartphone
application usage)
8. Context Interpreter
Detecting important
places and daily routines
Estimation of life patterns
such as the semantic
location of the user (e.g.
home, office)
Detection of device usage
in different locations
Detection of physical
activity in different
situations
9. Context Interpreter
Can be used to
Determine the devices that surround the user
e.g. at work, the user has access to his personal computer
Time and adapt system feedback based on the situation
e.g. time-shift notification to where user is more receptive
Log context changes and react appropriately
e.g. user entering an interesting location/situation such as office
10. Context Models
Domain knowledge for PAS
Such domain knowledge is any factual information about
persons, activities, locations and devices which influences the
decision about at what time, on which device and through
which modality feedback should be delivered to the user
Such domain knowledge is captured in a context model
11. Context Models
Example domain knowledge
If the user is cycling then
available devices are mobile devices (phone & activity monitor)
availability for receiving messages is low
A pill reminder message is
an urgent message
best delivered through the audio modality
12. Context Reasoner
Infer new knowledge from
information
The goal of the reasoner is to classify devices as being ACCESSIBLE,
AVAILABLE and/or USED
using the OWL reasoner and SWRL rules
ACCESSIBLE > AVAILABLE > USED
A device is an ACCESSIBLE_DEVICE if the user has access to it
A device is an AVAILABLE_DEVICE if it is an ACCESSIBLE_DEVICE which is
ON
A device is a USED_DEVICE if it is being used by a user
13. Context Reasoner
USER is_performed_by
WATCHINGTELEVISION
elena
watching_television
is_performed_on
THING
is_accessible_from
THING
elenas_television
elenas_livingroom
14. Context Reasoner
USER is_performed_by
WATCHINGTELEVISION
elena
watching_television
performs
is_performed_on
THING
is_accessible_from
THING
elenas_television
elenas_livingroom provides_access_to
Inverse properties
15. Context Reasoner
USER is_performed_by
WATCHINGTELEVISION
elena
performs watching_television
is_performed_on
TELEVISION
is_accessible_from
THING
elenas_television
elenas_livingroom provides_access_to
WATHINGTELEVISION is_performed_on only TELEVISION
16. Context Reasoner
USER is_performed_by
WATCHINGTELEVISION
elena
performs watching_television
is_performed_on
TELEVISION
is_accessible_from
HOME
elenas_television
elenas_livingroom provides_access_to
TELEVISION is_accessible_from only HOME
17. Context Reasoner
USER is_performed_by
WATCHINGTELEVISION
elena
performs watching_television
is_performed_on
uses
TELEVISION
is_accessible_from
HOME
elenas_television
elenas_livingroom provides_access_to
performs o is_performed_on -> uses
18. Context Reasoner
USER is_performed_by
WATCHINGTELEVISION
elena
performs watching_television
is_performed_on
uses used_by
TELEVISION
is_accessible_from
HOME
elenas_television
elenas_livingroom provides_access_to
Inverse properties
19. Context Reasoner
USER is_performed_by
WATCHINGTELEVISION
elena
performs watching_television
is_located_in
is_performed_on
uses used_by
TELEVISION
is_accessible_from
HOME
elenas_television
elenas_livingroom provides_access_to
uses o is_accessible_from -> is_located_in
20. Context Reasoner
USER is_performed_by
WATCHINGTELEVISION
elena
performs watching_television
is_located_in
is_performed_on
is_location_of uses used_by
TELEVISION
is_accessible_from
HOME
elenas_television
elenas_livingroom provides_access_to
Inverse properties
21. Context Reasoner
USER is_performed_by
WATCHINGTELEVISION
elena
performs watching_television
is_located_in
is_performed_on
is_location_of uses used_by
USED_DEVICE
is_accessible_from
HOME
elenas_television
elenas_livingroom provides_access_to
USED_DEVICE used_by min 1 USER
22. Context Reasoner
USER is_performed_by
WATCHINGTELEVISION
elena
performs watching_television
is_located_in
is_performed_on
is_location_of uses used_by
AVAILABLE_DEVICE
is_accessible_from
HOME
elenas_television
elenas_livingroom provides_access_to
AVAILABLE_DEVICE is superclass of USED_DEVICE
23. Context Reasoner
USER is_performed_by
WATCHINGTELEVISION
elena
performs watching_television
is_located_in
is_performed_on
is_location_of uses used_by
ACCESSIBLE_DEVICE
is_accessible_from
HOME
elenas_television
elenas_livingroom provides_access_to
ACCESSIBLE_DEVICE is superclass of AVAILABLE_DEVICE
24. Decision Engine
Determine content, timing
& modality of feedback
IF the situation is suitable, THEN send the message (as it is)
as_is(Message, User, Device) :-
send_message(User, Message),
user_availability(User, high),
has_access_to(User, Device),
supports(Device, Modality),
requires_modality(Message, Modality).
IF the situation is not suitable AND the message is not urgent,
it should be time-shifted
IF the situation is not suitable AND the message is urgent,
then the content should be adapted to the situation
adapt(Message, User, Device, Alternate_Modality) :-
send_message(User, Message),
urgent(Message),
has_access_to(User, Device),
requires_modality(Message, Preferred_Modality),
not(supports(Device, Preferred_Modality)),
supports(Device, Alternate_Modality).
25. Conclusion
Presentation mainly reports on research results obtained by
VTT and Sirris within the PAS use case defined by the Dutch
consortium
Future research
Implementation of the decision engine in a Java-based logic
engine
Integration of all individual components in a common prototype
Explore distributed context processing application
Carry out field studies to validate the effectiveness of timing and
device choice
Deriving general statements regarding use case specific
reasoning about context