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TactCube: An Intelligent Device to 'converse' with Smart Environments.

Authors
  • Battistoni, Pietro1
  • Di Gregorio, Marianna1
  • Romano, Marco1
  • Sebillo, Monica1
  • Vitiello, Giuliana1
  • 1 Computer Science Department, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano, Italy. , (Italy)
Type
Published Article
Journal
Sensors
Publisher
MDPI AG
Publication Date
Jul 13, 2022
Volume
22
Issue
14
Identifiers
DOI: 10.3390/s22145235
PMID: 35890917
Source
Medline
Keywords
Language
English
License
Unknown

Abstract

Ambient Intelligence is a vision of daily life in which intelligent devices interact with humans to make their lives easier, and the technology is invisible. Artificial Intelligence (AI) governs this smart environment and must interact with humans to best meet their needs and demands. Although voice assistants are very popular and efficient as conversational AI, under some conditions they cannot be used. Therefore, this work proposed a complementary tactile and tangible interface to converse with AI, creating new Tactile Signs. A prototype of TactCube, a wireless cube-shaped device that can interact with AI using only the tactile sense, is presented. The hypothesis is that TactCube can be manipulated with one hand and generate a sequence of numbers that can be interpreted as a new tactile language by a neural network solution. The paper describes the initial research made to define how these sequences can be generated and demonstrates how TactCube is able to do it.

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