Project Title Complex Activity Context Recognition within Smart Environments

Pervasive computing aims to enable a new paradigm of human-centric computer interaction by embedding increasingly ubiquitous connected computing devices in an environment to allow thorough integration of everyday objects and activities. Built upon this, ambient intelligence tries to make the environment sensitive and responsive to the presence of people by providing technologies and systems that support context awareness, personalization, adaptability and anticipation. In combination this creates an intelligent environment where miniature computing devices work in concert to support people in carrying out their daily working and living activities in an easy, natural and personalised way. A compelling real-world example of such an environment is a “Smart Home” – an augmented home environment within which the daily activities of its inhabitants, usually the elderly or disabled, are monitored and analysed so that personalized context-aware assistance can be provided. Others examples include intelligent transport, smart cities and smart hospitals, to name but a few.