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As the vision of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) becomes more feasible, the challenge of designing effective and usable human-machine interaction in this context becomes increasingly important. Interactive Machine Learning (IML) offers a set of techniques and tools to involve end-users in the machine learning process, making it possible to build more trustworthy and adaptable ambient systems. In this paper, our focus is on exploring approaches to effectively integrate and assist human users within ML-based AmI systems. Through a survey of key IML-related contributions, we identify principles for designing effective human-AI interaction in AmI applications. We apply them to the case of Opportunistic Composition, which is an approach to achieve AmI, to enhance collaboration between humans and Artificial Intelligence. Our study highlights the need for user-centered and context-aware design, and provides insights into the challenges and opportunities of integrating IML techniques into AmI systems.

As the vision of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) becomes more feasible, the challenge of designing effective and usable human-machine interaction in this context becomes increasingly important. Interactive Machine Learning (IML) offers a set of techniques and tools to involve end-users in the machine learning process, making it possible to build more trustworthy and adaptable ambient systems. In this paper, our focus is on exploring approaches to effectively integrate and assist human users within ML-based AmI systems. Through a survey of key IML-related contributions, we identify principles for designing effective human-AI interaction in AmI applications. We apply them to the case of Opportunistic Composition, which is an approach to achieve AmI, to enhance collaboration between humans and Artificial Intelligence. Our study highlights the need for user-centered and context-aware design, and provides insights into the challenges and opportunities of integrating IML techniques into AmI systems.

Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems are characterised by openness and an increasing number of devices and their associated services. In a previous work, we have proposed to exploit opportunistically these services in order to automatically make emerge customised applications that suit user preferences. For that, we have developed a generic solution for bottom-up opportunistic service composition, based on reinforcement learning. In this work, it is extended to handle more efficiently the appearance of new components using service annotation and quality attributes in order to generalise and share knowledge with new discovered services. A didactic use case is used for illustration and demonstration purposes.

Cyber-physical and ambient systems surround the human user with applications that should be tailored as possible to her/his preferences and the current situation. We propose to build them automatically and on the fly by composition of software components present at the time in the environment, but without prior expression of the user's needs or process specification or composition model. In order to produce knowledge useful for automatic composition in the absence of an initial guideline, we have developed a generic solution based on lifelong online reinforcement learning. It is decentralized within a multi-agent system where agents learn incrementally from user feedback to satisfy her/him. Different use cases have been experimented in which applications, adapted to the user and the situation, are composed and emerge automatically and continuously.