Synopses & Reviews
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops of the Second European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2008, held in Nuremberg, Germany, in November 2008. The volume includes the workshops: Smart Design for Human Performance, Smart Products: Building Blocks of Ambient Intelligence, Intelligent Objects for the Internet of Things, Social Intelligence for Well-Being and Care, When Ambient Intelligence meets Web 2.0: Wiki-City - A City interacts with its citizen; as well as the project workshops: SOPRANO, PERSONA, Netcarity and MPOWER, Conjoint Workshop on Ambient-Assisted Living, Architectures and platforms for AMI Ambient Assisted Living" and "Personal Health" - between Paragdigms, Projects and Products, Capturing Ambient Assisted Living Needs.
Synopsis
Ambient intelligence (AmI) was established in the late 1990s as a recent paradigm for electronic environments for the timeframe of 2010-2020. AmI is essentially an elabo- tion of Mark Weiser's vision of ubiquitous computing. Weiser was aiming at a novel mobile computing infrastructure integrated into the networked environment of people. AmI is the idea of a technology that will become invisibly embedded in our natural s- roundings, present whenever we need it, enabled by simple and effortless interaction, attuned to all our senses, adaptive to users, context-sensitive, and autonomous. AmI refers to smart electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. Since its adoption the vision has grown and fully developed, bec- ing quite influential in the development of novel ideas for information processing and new concepts for multi-disciplinary fields including electrical engineering, computer science, industrial design, user interfaces, and cognitive sciences. The AmI system - fords a basis for new paradigms of technological innovation within a multi-dimensional society. The added value of the AmI vision is the fact that the large-scale integration of electronics into the environment allows the actors, i. e., people and objects, to collaborate with their surroundings in a natural measure. This is directly related to the increasing societal demand for communication and the exchange of information.
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