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6.5. Principles of IMERA and HMTD
The IMERA project [DAV 07b] aims to take into account a real augmented
environment and to introduce the users, mobile, who can carry out activities using
their hand-held computers, the
means of mobile interaction. We base ourselves on
the principles of mobile and ubiquitous computer use [WEI 91], on the principles of
Mobile Learning
[MEY 06] (which we will define further on) and augmented reality
[WEL 93]. In this context, our main concepts are:
- MI (mobile interaction): consists of proposing user interfaces for hand-held
computers (PDA, Smartphones, Tablet PC) and other devices adapted to mobile
situations;
- RAE (real augmented environment): we target the deployment of an
augmented environment in the sense of mixed reality and ubiquitous computing;
- MOCOCO (mobility, cooperation, contextualization): this dimension deals
with tasks carried out collaboratively by several mobile users, who have access to
specific and contextualized data;
- proactivity is all the more important in these conditions: it consists of the
ability of the human-machine interface (HMI) to adapt itself to the actions of the
user and to the context in which he is interacting (in a logic of ambient intelligence)
by showing the ability to think ahead.
The
HelpMeToDo
(HMTD) project [DAV 07a] has the aim of using these new
mobile communication means for the general public and professionals in activities
requiring help. The need for information, training, assistance and help with
maintenance and breakdown in individual, collective, industrial or general public
contexts are therefore taken into account. The HMTD project aims to study this
issue in both a generic way and also a way which is transferable into those contexts
where the constraints and requirements are both specific, but which can be
“derived” from generic situations.
6.6. RAE (real augmented environment) for
e-Trucks
and
e-Buses
In the context of
e-Trucks
and
e-Buses
, RAE takes the form described in
Figure 6.1 for the
e-Truck
. Indeed, the different users are all emitters, receptors
and/or transformers of information. They are then dispatched to other users who
also use them. The truck GPS, the driver's mobile phone and mobile Internet phone
connections are elements of RAE. We can also add more local elements to this, in
the truck or between the truck and the infrastructure, in the form of active or passive
