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As opposed to conventional applications, smart environments are designed to offer transparent user assistance by decoupling users from devices. Apart from the lack of realised systems there are numerous applications that are strongly interwoven with the users’ workflow and hard to replace, commonly called legacy applications. Instead of creating new applications, our approach is the loose integration of these both, the smart environment and the legacy application. In our work, we propose a generic architecture that is applicable to various kinds of environments and applications. The architecture comprises an intermediate layer that enables a loose coupling between smart environment and legacy application. Furthermore, we introduce a workflow to refine the generic architecture to fit the requirements of specific use cases. For our use case, we apply the vision of a pervasive university. Here, we integrate functionalities of smart lecture rooms into a learning management system that is commonly used in German universities and therefore hard to replace.
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Lehsten, P., Gladisch, A., Tavangarian, D. (2011). Context-Aware Integration of Smart Environments in Legacy Applications. In: Keyson, D.V., et al. Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7040. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25167-2_14
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