Reports on the 2015 AAAI Spring Symposium Series

Ambient intelligence (intelligence embedded in the environment) is a system and an information technology that can adapt to human activities in the living environment. As characteristics of ambient intelligence, its system or information technology (1) is embedded in the environment; (2) can recognize the situational context of the subject; (3) can be personalized to the subject; (4) can change in response to the subject; and (5) can anticipate desires of the subject. One of the potential applications in ambient intelligence is health care. For example, a health-monitoring system embedded in the environment is useful for checking the health of aged persons without their entering a hospital, and thus contributes to health enhancement by controlling their health conditions. Another important potential of ambient intelligence from the viewpoint of health care is to enhance our