METHOD AND DATA PROCESSING DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING A DEVICE BASED ON A STATE OF ITS USER

A computer-implemented method for controlling a device, said method comprising:• obtaining (S10), using sensors (SR), data (DT) representative of said user (Us) and of an environment (Env);• determining (S20), based on said data, indicators (Em_I) of states of said user and at least one event indicator (Ev_I);• determining (S30), based on said state indicators and said data, using a Bayesian inference model (BIM), probabilities (Em_P) of states of said user (Us); and• determining (S40), based on said probabilities and said at least one event indicator, at least one state (Em_S) of said user and at least one event (Ev_C) causing the user to be in said at least one state;• determining (S50), based on said at least one state and event, a control action (Ac) of said device.