An Accessible Control Application for Domotic Environments

In a future of smart, intelligent houses where multiple heterogeneous devices will be interconnected to provide new functionalities, to enhance user productivity and to ease everyday tasks, several issues will challenge the research community, including interoperability, communication, security, hardware and interfaces. The biggest challenge will probably be maintaining the focus on the user as the ultimate target of this intense research effort. The work presented in this paper, although in a small scenario, tries to maintain the user centrality in Research community has to face many challenges in the smart house system development: interoperability, communication, security, hardware, interface, etc. The biggest challenge probably is to maintain the focus on the user as the ultimate target of this intense effort. One of the main aspects in the definition of the quality of life of a human being is autonomy, that in people with disabilities is often strongly compromised. This paper proposes an environmental control application, that works with domotics and eye tracking systems, for enabling people with severe motor diseases to interact independently with the home environment that surrounds them.