Contacts:

Consumer Benefits

Working Principle

Technology Status

Lifestyle Research Day 2011

Situated Coaching: integrating human coaching

expertise into the coaching engine

• Monitoring :anytime anywhere • Observe physical activity at the office

• Context: Time and place of advice and feedback • In front of the elevator: “take the stairs” • Not during an important meeting

• Multiple devices: Advice is delivered on a suitable device • Mobile when on the go • PC at work • Consumer devices

• Coaching quality: consistent with human coaching, but more cost efficient

• Monitoring: Sensing devices monitor the user’s behavior

• Context: Calendar, GPS, local weather websites, etc. provide information about user’s current and future situation

• Multiple devices: A smart space allows multiple devices to connect to the system

• Coaching quality: Engine is programmed directly by the coaches, resulting in a reduction in labor costs and less room for human error

• ‘Skip’ the software engineer • Automatic mapping of intermediate,

language to inference rules (machine language)

• ‘Skip’ the rule designer • Mapping from intermediate language to

coach’s domain language ongoing • Language allows and requires explicit

specification of timing, device and emotion • Advice can be presented by an avatar displaying

this emotion in facial expression and body posture

Monique Hendriks Aart van Halteren

Smarcos –Smart Composite HCI