Browsing by Author "Garnica Bautista, Fernando Xavier"

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Creación de una arquitectura enfocada en la interacción hombre computador para aplicaciones de internet de las cosas en ambientes de vida asistidas
(2018-10-30) Garnica Bautista, Fernando Xavier; Maita Tepán, Edwin Xavier; Cedillo Orellana, Irene Priscila
Because of the Interaction Human Computer (HCI) represents a direct communication channel between people and technological applications, it is necessary for technology to have a focus on providing solutions that facilitate the realization of daily activities, not only to ordinary users, but also to people who cannot interact with different applications in the same way that a person who has all their physical and cognitive faculties does. In this sense, paradigms have been created such as Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) and Internet of Things (IoT) that, used together, seek to promote and prolong the independent life of people from vulnerable sectors such as the elderly people and people with disabilities, through technologies that interact with people in a natural and transparent way in the place and context where the user needs them. In this work, a software architecture is proposed that serves as support during the construction of solutions that facilitate the interaction between users with special needs and different types of devices, sensors or actuators connected to the Internet within assisted living environments, in such a way that they contribute to improve their quality of life. For the validation, a prototype implementation of a system based on the proposed architecture has been carried out, giving way to a quasi-experiment that allows analyzing the architecture from the point of view of the user's perceptions.
Towards an architecture for human computer interaction within the internet of things and ambient assisted living domain
(Ibero-American Conference on Software Engineering, 2019) Maita Tepan, Edwin Xavier; Garnica Bautista, Fernando Xavier; Cedillo Orellana, Irene Priscila
All rights reserved. The Internet of Things (IoT) is part of the fourth industrial revolution; nowadays, it is common to find regular objects connected to Internet. Here, the connectivity should be transparent to users; however, the interactions that are involved between people and things should be natural and appropriate to each profile and need. In this context, this paper proposes an architecture named AALIIoT (Ambient Assisted Living Interactions for IoT), which supports the design of IoT solutions for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) environments in order to facilitate the interaction between users with special needs and the IoT artifacts (i.e., sensors, actuators). Also, this architecture contemplates different modes of interaction (e.g., gestural, auditory, visual, cerebral) to allow the communication between devices and people for everyday activities, which may be difficult for them. Finally, a system prototype based on AALIIoT has been implemented, which takes into account specific needs of a user profile. Then, for the evaluation of the proposed architecture, a quasi-experiment was executed, which allowed to analyze the architecture and the perceived efficacy from the point of view of 5 systems engineers and undergraduate students. The results show that the participants perceived AALIIoT to be easy to use, useful, and also expressed their intention to use the architecture in the future.