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“Yet, Still, Ever After…”: Future Work

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Building an Intuitive Multimodal Interface for a Smart Home

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This book has been about the theoretical and practical work that went into developing a truly intuitive interface for controlling networked and embedded devices in the smart homes within and in parallel to the Casa Vecchia project. Both branches of that work continue, inside and outside of the Casa Vecchia system. In this final chapter we provide an overview of the theoretical and practical efforts that have derived from Casa Vecchia and from our work on the S.N.A.R.K.; and look into the future at what will come next.

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    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” From Clarke A.C. (1962, rev. 1973). “Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination” in the collection Profiles of the Future: An Enquiry into the Limits of the Possible, p. 36.

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  1. Advertiser User Experience Research Group, Adecco at Google, San Bruno, CA, USA

    John N. A. Brown

  2. Interactive Systems Group, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria

    John N. A. Brown

  3. Centre Tecnològic de Recerca per a la Depedència i la Vida Autònoma, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Catalonia, Spain

    John N. A. Brown

  4. Signal Processing & Telecommunications Group, Department of Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Genoa, Genova, Italy

    John N. A. Brown

  5. Interactive Systems Group, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria

    Anton Josef Fercher

  6. Interactive Systems Group, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria

    Gerhard Leitner

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Brown, J.N.A., Fercher, A.J., Leitner, G. (2017). “Yet, Still, Ever After…”: Future Work. In: Building an Intuitive Multimodal Interface for a Smart Home. Human–Computer Interaction Series(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56532-3_11

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