Virtual and Pervasive Smart Home Services Using Tangible Mixed Reality

Abstract

This paper proposes a new way of providing virtual smart home services using tangible mixed reality (MR), which provides more cost-effective and reliable visualization and simulation of the existing pervasive environment. One of the main characteristics of the proposed approach is capable of embedding virtual objects into the real environment such that it is easy to test the feasibility of the existing pervasive smart home. The paper also presents how to support those services by linking contexts to virtual objects and their tangible behaviors. We will show the effectiveness and advantage of the proposed approach by demonstrating a tangible smart home testbed. It has been also applied to the tangible virtual studio authoring and interaction.