Leveraging Web Technologies to Expose Multiple Contemporary Controller Input in Smart TV Rich Internet Applications Utilized in Elderly Assisted Living Environments

This work describes a lightweight framework allowing internet applications to access controllers such as the Wii remote, Wii balance board and MS Kinect irrespective of proximity or configuration. This is achieved by utilizing predetermined schemas for encapsulating the controller information and transferring this data through standard internet communication technologies (RESTFUL services and Web Sockets) in platform independent, device naïve ways. These features of the framework provide Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with ubiquitous access to sophisticated human computer interaction schemes for diverse uses. The proliferation of Smart TVs as central information hubs in elderly assisted living environments, along with the need for simple gesture control schemes for these demographics, provides one application of this framework. Thus, we demonstrate how this service can be incorporated for developing internet applications and how it can be utilized for providing intuitive interaction methods for RIAs deployed through Smart TVs in elderly assisted living environments.