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Smart homes provide a technologically enhanced environment that helps user’s complete activities of daily living, thus increasing their autonomy. However, predominant use of verbal prompts in smart homes, with little knowledge of their effectiveness, affects significantly their efficiency by providing prompts that are not optimized with the profiles of the users and the characteristics of the tasks. In order for prompts to be effective, they have to compensate the deficits of its users by exploiting their remaining strengths. To contribute solving the issue, we present, in this paper, basic guidelines that are useful for increasing prompt efficiency in smart homes. We identify relevant significant individual profiles and task characteristics that affect prompt efficiency and how to use prompts accordingly. In addition, we illustrate our efforts to validate the proposed guidelines by giving preliminary results from our ongoing experimentations and by presenting the experimental protocol and software application being used.
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Van Tassel, M., Bouchard, J., Bouchard, B., Bouzouane, A. (2011). Guidelines for Increasing Prompt Efficiency in Smart Homes According to the Resident’s Profile and Task Characteristics. In: Abdulrazak, B., Giroux, S., Bouchard, B., Pigot, H., Mokhtari, M. (eds) Toward Useful Services for Elderly and People with Disabilities. ICOST 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6719. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21535-3_15
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