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It is important to evaluate the
user's feedback and identify the
impact of AR techniques in
the IoT perception, along with
our architecture's effectiveness
and feasibility.
perception of the smart environment. In the fast-approaching
world where smart devices are adapted to facilitate humans'
daily lives, user interfaces must ensure a simple and straightforward interaction between users and the smart environment.
Personalization through CA, enhancement of natural interaction through AR methods, and markerless tracking techniques
of SOs are some of the requirements we believe are indispensable to the interaction with IoT platforms. This proposed
architecture is based on these characteristics and must be
tested to evaluate its effectiveness, but we are confident that it
would eventually help Lane, for example, to capitalize on the
full potential of the IoT services.
It is our belief that as the IoT expands toward fuller realization, more CE products will focus on facilitating the user
experience and perception of the smart environment, and as a
result, users will be more accepting of acquiring SOs. They
will succeed in overcoming this challenge by providing alternative ways of interaction, e.g., the integration of AR features
that will visualize the SOs.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Konstantinos Michalakis (kmichalak@aegean.gr) is a Ph.D.
degree candidate in the Department of Cultural Technology
and Communication and a member of the Intelligent Interaction Research Group at the University of the Aegean, Greece.
His research focuses on context awareness and the Internet
of Things.
John Aliprantis (jalip@aegean.gr) is a Ph.D. degree candidate in the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication and a member of the Intelligent Interaction Research
Group at the University of the Aegean, Greece. His research
focuses on augmented reality and linked open data.
George Caridakis (gcari@aegean.gr) is a faculty member of
the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at
the University of the Aegean, Greece. He is also a senior
researcher with the Intelligent Systems, Content, and Interaction Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens,
Greece. He currently serves as an assistant professor of cultural informatics in the Department of Informatics, Ionian University, Greece, and as an assistant professor of games and
media technology in the Medialogy Department, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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