Nils Einecke, Stefan Fuchs, Bram Bolder, Manuel Mühlig, Fabian Eisele, "Living Lab: A 24/7 Human-Machine-Interaction Space in an Office Environment", Proceedings of the Poster and Workshop Sessions of AmI-2019, the 2019 European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, pp. 111-123, 2019.

In this work, we present the SmartLobby, an intelligent environment system integrated into the lobby of a research institute. The SmartLobby is running 24/7, i.e. it can be used any time by anyone without any preparations. The goal of the system is to conduct research in the domain of human machine cooperation. One important first step towards this goal is a detailed human state modeling and estimation. As the system is built into the lobby area, also people having no scientific background are interacting with the system which strongly reduces the bias in the collected data. On software side the SmartLobby mainly integrates state-of-the-art algorithms that enable a thorough analysis of human behavior and state. These algorithms constitute the fundamental basis for the development of higher level system components. Here, we present our system with its various hardware and software components. Thereby, we focus on the realization of a non-intrusive head-eye-tracking as a key component to continuously observe persons using the system. A first multi-week lasting experiment utilizes this capability to investigate a method for content personalization, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the whole system.