Enhancing Scalable User Experience in Smart Home Systems with Ubiquitous Virtual Reality Interfaces

Abstract

The popularity of smart home systems has greatly increased over the past several years, which provide convenience, automation, and control over various areas of daily life at home. However, these technologies still have issues with scalable user experience, mainly because there aren’t any engaging and intuitive user interfaces. Incorporating pervasive virtual reality (VR) interfaces into smart home systems is the unique strategy proposed in this study to improve scalable user experience. The study’s goal is to use VR technology to develop engaging and simple user interfaces that seamlessly integrate with the actual surroundings of a smart home. Users can engage with their smart home appliances and services through a mixed-reality experience in which virtual items and information are seamlessly incorporated into their environment by donning portable VR headsets. This application considers various difficulties related to developing Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) solutions, including unique characteristics of each end user, appliance, technology, deployment, and data-sharing problems. The Smart Home Systems take advantage of Semantic Web technologies integration abilities and their capacity facing represent significant information into legal models. A virtual reality application called Smart Home Systems allows for residential settings’ setup and customization in AAL systems. Additionally, it effectively uses VR technology to streamline the creation of specialized AAL settings. The application and underlying framework were evaluated for each through two scenarios: designing a home setting specifically for specific scalable user categories.