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- International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies
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Abstract (2. Language):
The main characteristic of intelligent devices that compose our environment is their capability to perceive and
collect relevant information (context awareness) in order to assist users in their daily tasks. However, these tasks evolve
frequently and require dynamic and evolutionary systems (context-aware systems) to improve intelligent devices skills
according to user’s context. Some context-aware systems are described in the literature, but most of them have extremely
tight coupling between the semantic used in the application and sensors used to obtained the data for this semantic
interpretation. The objective of our research is to study and implement a proactive approach able to use existing sensors and
to create dynamically human-machine conversational situations when needed. The system presented in this paper is named
X-CAMPUS (eXtensible Conversational Agent for Multichannel Proactive Ubiquitous Services). It aims to assist user in his/her
daily tasks thanks to its ability to perceive the state of the environment and interact effectively according to the user’s needs.
In this paper we describe our approach for proactive intelligent assistance and we illustrate it through some scenarios
showing that according to a given multi-parameters context, our X-CAMPUS agent notifies the user via personalized
messages (e.g., suggestion of restaurants according to menus and users’ preferences) across the most appropriate channel
(instant messaging, e-mail or SMS) and the most appropriate modality (text, gesture or voice). Then, we discuss our
quantitative results, based on four principal hypotheses in order to evaluate our system’s capability to manage many users
simultaneously with different contextual information. We argue and we show that the proactive assistance is very relevant in
complex situations with various criteria to take into account (user’s profile, location, task, etc.).
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