Building an intuitive multimodal interface for a smart home: hunting the SNARK

This volume describes an innovative approach to the interaction between humans and a smart environment; an attempt to get a smart home to understand intuitive, multi-modal, human-centred communication.

State of the art smart homes, like other 'smart' technology, tend to demand that the human user must adapt herself to the needs of the system.

The hunt for a truly user-centred, truly intuitive system has long proven to be beyond the grasp of current technology.