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Article

TactCube: An Intelligent Device to ‘converse’ with Smart Environments

by
Pietro Battistoni
,
Marianna Di Gregorio
,
Marco Romano
,
Monica Sebillo
* and
Giuliana Vitiello
Computer Science Department, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 Fisciano, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sensors 2022, 22(14), 5235; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22145235
Submission received: 1 June 2022 / Revised: 4 July 2022 / Accepted: 10 July 2022 / Published: 13 July 2022
(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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Abstract

Ambient Intelligence is a vision of daily life in which intelligent devices interact with humans to make their lives easier, and the technology is invisible. Artificial Intelligence (AI) governs this smart environment and must interact with humans to best meet their needs and demands. Although voice assistants are very popular and efficient as conversational AI, under some conditions they cannot be used. Therefore, this work proposed a complementary tactile and tangible interface to converse with AI, creating new Tactile Signs. A prototype of TactCube, a wireless cube-shaped device that can interact with AI using only the tactile sense, is presented. The hypothesis is that TactCube can be manipulated with one hand and generate a sequence of numbers that can be interpreted as a new tactile language by a neural network solution. The paper describes the initial research made to define how these sequences can be generated and demonstrates how TactCube is able to do it.
Keywords: conversational AI; human–computer interaction; ambient intelligence; wireless device; tangible interface; tactile interface; haptic interface; ESP32 conversational AI; human–computer interaction; ambient intelligence; wireless device; tangible interface; tactile interface; haptic interface; ESP32

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Battistoni, P.; Di Gregorio, M.; Romano, M.; Sebillo, M.; Vitiello, G. TactCube: An Intelligent Device to ‘converse’ with Smart Environments. Sensors 2022, 22, 5235. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22145235

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Battistoni P, Di Gregorio M, Romano M, Sebillo M, Vitiello G. TactCube: An Intelligent Device to ‘converse’ with Smart Environments. Sensors. 2022; 22(14):5235. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22145235

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Battistoni, Pietro, Marianna Di Gregorio, Marco Romano, Monica Sebillo, and Giuliana Vitiello. 2022. "TactCube: An Intelligent Device to ‘converse’ with Smart Environments" Sensors 22, no. 14: 5235. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22145235

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Battistoni, P., Di Gregorio, M., Romano, M., Sebillo, M., & Vitiello, G. (2022). TactCube: An Intelligent Device to ‘converse’ with Smart Environments. Sensors, 22(14), 5235. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22145235

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