Ambient Intelligence

Ambient Intelligence

IntroductIon In recent years much research and development effort BLOCKINhas BLOCKINbeen BLOCKINdirected BLOCKINtowards BLOCKINthe BLOCKINbroad BLOCKINfield BLOCKINof ambient intelligence (AmI), and this trend is set to continue for the foreseeable future. AmI aims at seamlessly integrating services within smart infrastructures to be used at home, at work, in the car, on the move, and generally...

AGENTS AND AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

Multimodality and Ambient Intelligence

In this report we discuss multimodal interface technology. We present examples of multimodal interfaces and show problems and opportunities. Fusion of modalities is discussed and some roadmap discussions on research in Multimodality are summarized. This report also discusses future developments where rather than communicating with a single computer, users communicate with their environment usin...

Interacting with Ambient Intelligence

Interactive systems have been the dominant computing paradigm over recent years. This paradigm is characterized by the fact that human user and the system communicate and interact explicitly using different modalities. However to come closer to visions of Ambient Intelligence, Calm Computing, Disappearing Computing, and Ubiquitous Computing new forms of interaction are required. Observing human...

Conversations for Ambient Intelligence

The development of programs for mobile devices inhabiting Ambient Intelligent network constellations is notoriously difficult. These difficulties stem from the fact that the limitations imposed by the hardware need to be dealt with in an ad hoc fashion. In this paper we advocate the use of conversations as a general programming model to develop applications for Ambient Intelligence. We illustra...