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BricklAyeR: A Platform for Building Rules for AmI Environments in AR

Authors : Evropi Stefanidi, Dimitrios Arampatzis, Asterios Leonidis, George Papagiannakis

Published in: Advances in Computer Graphics

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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With the proliferation of Intelligent Environments, the need for configuring their behaviors to address their users’ needs emerges. In combination with the current advances in Augmented and Virtual Reality and Conversational Agents, new opportunities arise for systems which allow people to program their environment. Whereas today this requires programming skills, soon, when most spaces will include smart objects, tools which allow their collaborative management by non-technical users will become a necessity. To that end, we present BricklAyeR, a novel collaborative platform for non-programmers, that allows to define the behavior of Intelligent Environments, through an intuitive, 3D building-block User Interface, following the Trigger-Action programming principle, in Augmented Reality, with the help of a Conversational Agent.

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Title: BricklAyeR: A Platform for Building Rules for AmI Environments in AR
Authors: Evropi Stefanidi
Dimitrios Arampatzis
Asterios Leonidis
George Papagiannakis
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Advances in Computer Graphics
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-22513-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-22514-8

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22514-8_39

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