Rule Builder at ISAmI 2011

1. A USER-FRIENDLY INTERFACE FOR RULES COMPOSITION IN INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENT Dario Bonino, Fulvio Corno, Luigi De Russis Politecnico di Torino, e-Lite Research Group http://elite.polito.it

2. OUTLINE • Motivations and goal • Requirements • Interface design • Conclusions A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 2 Composition in Intelligent Environment

3. MOTIVATIONS • Need to ﬁnd a suitable trade-off between: • totally direct user control of the home • fully automatic home behavior • Feasible solution: rule-based activity delegation • lack of effective rules deﬁnition interfaces A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 3 Composition in Intelligent Environment

4. OUR GOAL Define a rule definition interface specifically aimed at non-skilled home inhabitants A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 4 Composition in Intelligent Environment

5. FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS • Rules: • deﬁnable by people with basic level of computer literacy • self-explaining • always valid • expressive enough to manage almost home situations A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 5 Composition in Intelligent Environment

6. NOT FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS • Facilitate rule creation by means of: • suggestions • auto-ﬁlling functionalities • auto-saving functionalities • Home devices shall be exposed in an abstract and technology independent way A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 6 Composition in Intelligent Environment

7. HOW TO? • Rich-web interface • Formal rule representation grammar • Constrained editing • rules are always valid • Ruleobjects and grammar easy to render as nearly natural language A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 6 Composition in Intelligent Environment

8. PAPER PROTOTYPE A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 7 Composition in Intelligent Environment

9. INTERFACE CONCEPT (1/4) - LAYOUT - • Sam wants to create the rule: If the living room is dark, turn on the lamp. • By opening the Rule Builder he sees: A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 8 Composition in Intelligent Environment

10. INTERFACE CONCEPT (1/4) - LAYOUT - • Sam wants to create the rule: If the living room is dark, turn on the lamp. • By opening the Rule Builder he sees: what he needs to create the rule A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 8 Composition in Intelligent Environment

11. INTERFACE CONCEPT (1/4) - LAYOUT - • Sam wants to create the rule: If the living room is dark, turn on the lamp. • By opening the Rule Builder he sees: what he needs to create the rule a wide area to be used for the rule deﬁnition A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 8 Composition in Intelligent Environment

12. INTERFACE CONCEPT (2/4) - DRAG AND AUTO-DOCKING - • Sam decides to drag the “light intensity sensor” under the “IF”: A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 8 Composition in Intelligent Environment

13. INTERFACE CONCEPT (2/4) - DRAG AND AUTO-DOCKING - • Sam decides to drag the “light intensity sensor” under the “IF”: the sensor docks and shows a list to specify what event has to intercept A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 8 Composition in Intelligent Environment

14. INTERFACE CONCEPT (3/4) - GRAMMAR BASED SUGGESTIONS - • When Sam starts to drag the lamp, two new (optional) “blocks” appear: A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 8 Composition in Intelligent Environment

15. INTERFACE CONCEPT (3/4) - GRAMMAR BASED SUGGESTIONS - • When Sam starts to drag the lamp, two new (optional) “blocks” appear: A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 8 Composition in Intelligent Environment

16. INTERFACE CONCEPT (3/4) - GRAMMAR BASED SUGGESTIONS - • When Sam starts to drag the lamp, two new (optional) “blocks” appear: A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 8 Composition in Intelligent Environment

17. INTERFACE CONCEPT (4/4) - NEARLY NATURAL LANGUAGE - • Sam concludes the rule by dragging the lamp and selecting the proper action: A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 8 Composition in Intelligent Environment

18. INTERFACE CONCEPT (4/4) - NEARLY NATURAL LANGUAGE - • Sam concludes the rule by dragging the lamp and selecting the proper action: the rule is complete and a sentence summarizes it A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 8 Composition in Intelligent Environment

19. THE GRAMMAR BEHIND A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 9 Composition in Intelligent Environment

20. THE GRAMMAR BEHIND optional • • mandatory conditions • • mandatory • event to trigger constraining • set of actions the rule the event to be executed (E-BLOCK) (C-BLOCKs) (A-BLOCKs) • controllable • controllable • controllable devices, clock devices, clock devices and sensors and sensors A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 9 Composition in Intelligent Environment

21. THE GRAMMAR BEHIND optional • • mandatory conditions • • mandatory • event to trigger constraining • set of actions the rule the event to be executed (E-BLOCK) (C-BLOCKs) (A-BLOCKs) • controllable • controllable • controllable devices, clock devices, clock devices and sensors and sensors A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 9 Composition in Intelligent Environment

22. THE GRAMMAR BEHIND disjunction for repeating IF-WHEN more than once optional • • mandatory conditions • • mandatory • event to trigger constraining • set of actions the rule the event to be executed (E-BLOCK) (C-BLOCKs) (A-BLOCKs) • controllable • controllable • controllable devices, clock devices, clock devices and sensors and sensors A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 9 Composition in Intelligent Environment

23. THE GRAMMAR BEHIND disjunction for repeating IF-WHEN more than once optional • • mandatory conditions • • mandatory • event to trigger constraining • set of actions the rule the event to be executed (E-BLOCK) (C-BLOCKs) (A-BLOCKs) • controllable • controllable • controllable devices, clock devices, clock devices and sensors and sensors A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 9 Composition in Intelligent Environment

24. WORK IN PROGRESS... A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 10 Composition in Intelligent Environment

25. CONCLUSIONS • Rule Builder • conceptual and ﬁrst “working” design • rich-web interface • for home inhabitants with little or no technological skills • based on a formal grammar A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 11 Composition in Intelligent Environment

26. THANK YOU Luigi De Russis luigi.derussis@polito.it A User-Friendly Interface for Rules 12 Composition in Intelligent Environment

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