ManeuverXML: Distance-Measurement Based Operation Event Description Model and User Interaction Interpretation

This paper focuses a method which has a possibility to determine user´s interactions or operations by use of distance measuring between devices, and the result can be applied to control them respectively by giving rules according to an event-driven description model. In recent years, several collaborative models among devices or appliances by using sensor networks are proposed, but it has not enough been described how to collaborate among several appliances from the perspective of user interactions and system event dispatching mechanisms suitable for a home network environment. As one possible system framework in a home network environment, we designed distance-measurement information processing system architecture and implemented a prototype which enabled interactions between multiple home appliances using sensor networks, in combination with the event-driven rule firing mechanism based on an XML-based operation event description language named ManeuverXML. In addition, the prototyped application which realized an intuitive UI based on the proposed system architecture to control home appliances is introduced.