Smart views in smart environments

Abstract

Smart environments integrate a multitude of different device ensembles and aim to facilitate proactive assistance in multi-display scenarios. However, the integration of existing software, especially visualization systems, to take advantage of these novel capabilities is still a challenging task. In this paper we present a smart view management concept for an integration that combines and displays views of different systems in smart meeting rooms. Considering these varying requirements arising in such environments we provide a smart viewing management taking e.g. the dynamic user positions, view directions and even the semantics of views to be shown into account. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.