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Miniaturization of smart devices and sensors, as well as widespread use of new interaction modalities make Ambient Intelligence (AmI) not a prospect for the future but an impending reality of existence. This requires methods for solving the issues on how to integrate interaction devices into a context-aware environment. We thus designed a middleware to provide a promising approach. Our middleware adopts a two-layer structure. The low layer is the enterprise service bus, which is in charge of integrating context sensors and interaction devices, and of discovering context. The high layer is the versatile context interpreter, which is responsible for context inference, expressive query, and persistent storage. Finally, we implemented the prototype of this middleware on the street and store marketing scenario.
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Xu, T., Jin, H., David, B., Chalon, R., Zhou, Y. (2013). A Context-Aware Middleware for Interaction Device Deployment in AmI. In: Streitz, N., Stephanidis, C. (eds) Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions. DAPI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8028. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39351-8_21
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