Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
11 results found in Smart Home.
- Acoustic Activity Recognition (Sound Activity Recognition, Audio Activity Recognition, Environmental Sound Recognition)
- The use of microphones and machine learning to automatically identify and classify sounds occurring in an environment, such as doorbells, alarms, appliances, speech, and other everyday acoustic events…
- Activity Monitoring (Activity Recognition, Activity Tracking)
- The use of sensors, algorithms, and computational models to automatically detect and track a person's actions and behaviours within an environment. In assistive technology contexts, activity monitorin…
- Ambient Display (Ambient Interface, Peripheral Display)
- A display or interface that communicates information through subtle environmental changes — such as colour shifts, lighting changes, or gentle sounds — that can be perceived at the periphery of a user…
- Assisted Living Technology (Assistive Living Technology, Ambient Assisted Living, AAL)
- Technology systems designed to help people with disabilities, chronic conditions, or age-related limitations live more independently in their homes or residential facilities. This includes smart home …
- Busyness (Activity Level, Activity Intensity)
- In the telecare literature, busyness is a coarse-grained measure of overall domestic activity — typically the count of ambient sensor firings per room per time period — used as a proxy for a resident'…
- Cognitive Orthosis (Cognitive Prosthesis, Cognitive Assistive Device)
- A technology-based device or system designed to compensate for cognitive deficits by supporting functions such as memory, planning, attention, and task sequencing. Analogous to a physical orthosis tha…
- Digital Family Portrait
- Digital Family Portrait is a 2001 research prototype from Georgia Institute of Technology (Mynatt et al.) that uses an ambient, picture-frame-style display in an adult child's home to represent the da…
- Environmental Control System (ECS, Electronic Aids to Daily Living, EADL, Environmental Control Unit)
- An environmental control system (ECS) is an assistive technology that enables people with physical disabilities to independently control devices and features in their environment, such as lights, door…
- Lifestyle Modelling (Lifestyle Monitoring, Lifestyle Modeling)
- Lifestyle modelling is the correlation of a person's observed day-to-day activities — sleeping, eating, moving between rooms, interacting with objects — with inferences about their well-being, usually…
- Passive Infrared Sensor (PIR Sensor, PIR, Motion Sensor)
- A passive infrared sensor detects movement by measuring changes in ambient infrared radiation in its field of view — typically body heat from a person moving across the detection zone. PIR sensors are…
- Smart Environment (Intelligent Environment, Smart Space)
- A physical space equipped with sensors, computing devices, and networked systems that can monitor conditions, infer context, and respond to the activities and needs of occupants. Smart environments ai…