BACKGROUND Otitis media (OM) is one of the most common early childhood infections, resulting in an enormous economic burden to the health care system through unscheduled doctor visits and antibiotic prescriptions. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to investigate the potential association between ambient air pollution exposure and emergency department (ED) visits for OM. MATERIALS A...

Ambiente Technologien können auf vielfältige Weise die Prozesse in Krankenhäusern unterstützen und dadurch sowohl die Effizienz als auch die Effektivität der Behandlung erhöhen. Innerhalb des vorliegenden Beitrags werden die verschiedenen Nutzungspotentiale von Ambient Intelligence in Krankenhäusern untersucht. Den in der Literatur vorherrschenden Anwendungsszenarien werden die Ergebnisse einer...

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This paper reports on the ideas and results of the First International Workshop on Aesthetic Intelligence (AxI’11) held as a satellite workshop during the International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI’11).

For any field k and integers n ≥ 1, d ≥ 3, with (n, d) not equal to (1, 3) or (2, 4), we exhibit a smooth hypersurface X over k of degree d in Pn+1 such that X has no non-trivial automorphisms over k. For (n, d) = (2, 4), we find X such that X has no non-trivial automorphisms induced by an automorphism of the ambient Pn+1.

This editorial presents advances on Human-centred Ambient Intelligence applications which take into account cognitive issues when modelling users (i.e. stress, attention disorders), and learn users’ activities/preferences and adapt to them (i.e. at home, driving a car). These papers also show AmI applications in health and education, which make them even more valuable for the general society.

This text attempts to describe an imagined future of ambient intelligence. It assumes that one day most of the current issues within ambient intelligence will be solved and that a second order ambient intelligence will be formulated, one with new research agendas. It describes several topics and ideas that might be part of this agenda and surmises on the prerequisites for this change.