A Home Context-Aware System with a Mechanism for Personalization of Service Providing

We propose a home context-aware system which has a mechanism for personalization of service activation and context estimation. Personalization of service activation is to realize service activation along user intention. The proposed system can activate a variety of services along user intention by combining a system-active approach and a user-active approach. Because users choose activated services finally, the system can activate services even along user intention which cannot be inferred by computers. Personalization of context estimation is to realize setting values appropriate for each user to parameters used for context estimation in a system-active approach. The proposed system determines values appropriate for each user by utilizing statistical data of test users whose characteristics are similar to each user. Determination of individual values enables stabler context estimation than context estimation with values common to all users.

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