Smart Classroom – an Intelligent Environment for distant education

In this paper, we present our current work on Intelligent Environment the Smart Classroom project. It is an augmented classroom used for teachers in the distant education. The teacher can write directly on a wall-size media-board or use speech and gesture to conduct the class discussion involving of the distant students. It is just the experience that the teacher was familiar with in the ordinary classroom educations. This paper explained the motivation of this project and discussed the main challenges of the project, which we considered also have significances to other Intelligent Environment projects. Our current progress and the approaches we used are also described.