Communicating With Smart Objects: Developing Technology For Usable Persuasive Computing Systems (innovative Technology Series. Information Systems And Networks)

Communicating with Smart Objects This page intentionally left blank INNOUATIUE TECHNOLOGY SERIES INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS Communicating with Smart Objects edited by Claude Kintzig, Gerard Poulain, Gilles Priuat & Pierre-Noel Fauennec London and Sterling, VA First published in France in 2002 by Hermes Science entitled 'Objets communicants' First published in Great Britain and the United States in 2003 by Kogan Page Science, an imprint of Kogan Page Limited Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms and licences issued by the CLA. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms should be sent to the publishers at the undermentioned addresses: 120 Pentonville Road London N1 9JN UK www.koganpagescience.comM 22883 Quicksilver Drive Sterling VA 20166-2012 USA © France Telecom R&D and Lavoisier, 2002 © Kogan Page Limited, 2003 The right of Claude Kintzig, Gerard Poulain, Gilles Privat and Pierre-Noel Favennec to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. ISBN 1 9039 9636 8 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Objets communicants. English Communicating with smart objects: developing technology for usable pervasive computing systems / edited by Claude Kintzig ... [et al.]. p. cm. — (Innovative technology series. Information systems and networks) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-903996-36-8 1. Electronic apparatus and appliances—Automatic control. 2. Telecommunication systems—Technological inovations. 3. Wireless LANs. 4. Remote control. I. Kintzig, Claude, 1948- II. Title. III. Series. TK7881.2.O25132003 621.3815'4-dc21 2003013875 Typeset by Kogan Page Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddies Ltd, Guildford and King's Lynn www. biddies.co.uk Contents Introduction: The Role of Smart Devices in Communication Bruno Choquet vii Part 1. Interaction 1 1. New Distributed and Active Tools and Narrative Activities Franchise Decortis, Claudio Moderini, Antonio Rizzo and Job Rutgers 3 2. Smart Houses and Dependent People: Acceptability, Solvency and International Tendencies Chantal Ammi 9 3. Towards Multimodal Human-computer Dialogue by Intelligent Agents Patrice Clemente 17 4. Multimodal Interaction on Mobile Artefacts Laurence Pasqualetti, Laurence Nigay, Moustapha Zouinar, Pierre Salembier, Guillaume Calvet, Mien Kahn and Gaetan Rey 39 5. The Voice as a Means of Humanising Man-machine Interfaces Noel Chateau 47 Part 2. Software Infrastructure for Smart Devices/Ambient Intelligence Gilles Privat 57 6. Introduction to a Middleware Framework Vincent Olive and A. Vareille 61 7. A Model and Software Architecture for Location-management in Smart Devices/Ambient Communication Environments Thibaud Flury, Gilles Privat and Naoufel Chraiet 71 8. A Software Infrastructure for Distributed Applications on Mobile Physical Objects Mohammed