Smart home appliance control system for physically disabled people using kinect and X10

Modern science and technology is all about making our lives more comfortable. As the study of various technologies is progressing, the definition of comfort in our lifestyle is evolving. Tasks that involved so much complexities and hard work a few years ago, can now be done by just pushing a button. But by being possessed with thoughts of our own comfort, we often forget the people who need it the most; the physically challenged people. They face so many limitations in everyday life that what may seem luxury to us, is ironically necessity to them. To provide a satisfactory resolution to this, we have built “Smart Home Appliance Control System for Physically Disabled People Using Kinect & X10”. Our system's goal is to make their lives easy and comfortable by providing them with a self-dependable environment. To validate the system's acceptability we developed a prototype in our laboratory environment and performed real user study.