An Interface for Managing users' Preferences in AmI

One important concept of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is meeting the user needs unobtrusively. To meet such needs, it is crucial to provide way(s) that will allow users to indicate their preferences to the system and allow users update them easily. As this will be used by the system to reason about their preferences and better align services with users behaviour. The paper aim to identify an effective way to manage, represent and reason with users preferences. A simple interface for managing users' preferences was provided to help manage and resolve some of the complexities in users' preferences. The interface also relied on textual menus for simplicity. Videos demonstration have been provided to show how the interface effectively works with a reasoning system in a smart house, providing different results when there is a change in users' preference(s).