Attention Responsive Technology Implementation For Independent Control of the Environment (ARTIFICE)

Arfice是一种创新的辅助技术，它帮助因残疾或年龄而行动不便的个人自主地操作环境控制系统，如门禁、照明和多媒体设备。该系统通过监测个人及其环境中的信息和通信技术设备来工作。它不断地检查个体的眼动行为，并使用对稳定眼睛凝视的评估，以及个体的凝视点，来确定他们在环境中的哪个位置。然后，图像处理算法确定它们是否在凝视ICT设备，如果是，则确定它们正在关注哪个特定的ICT设备。然后，该信息启动为个人配置的界面，该界面仅显示对用户和所讨论的特定设备都合适的那些控件。然后，用户可以选择是否通过该接口操作该设备，从而克服了意外的设备操作。控制信息以无线方式转发到设备本身。Arfice作为一种使能的辅助技术，该系统完全由用户配置，无论是用户还是他们的照顾者，并完全能够满足未来的技术发展。

ARTIFICE (Attention Responsive Technology Implementation For Independent Control of the Environment) is an innovative assistive technology which aids individuals, whose mobility is impaired as a result of disability or age, operate environmental control systems, such as door entry, lighting and multimedia devices, autonomously. The system works by monitoring the individual and the ICT devices in his/her environment. It continuously examines the individual's eye movement behaviour and uses the assessment of steady eye gaze, together with the individual's point of gaze, to determine where in the environment they are looking. Image processing algorithms then determine whether they are gazing at an ICT device and if so then to which particular ICT device they are attending. This information then initiates an interface, configured for the individual, which displays only those controls that are appropriate, both to the user and to the particular device in question. The user can then choose to operate the device via the interface, or not, thereby overcoming accidental device operations. Control information is wirelessly relayed to the device itself. ARTIFICE acts as an enabling assistive technology, with the system fully user-configurable, either by the user or their carer, and is fully able to cater for future technological developments.