Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life

Ambient Intelligence refers to smart electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. This book originates from the Workshop on Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life held in San Sebastian, Spain, July 2005. Coverage is devoted to the cognitive aspects of ambient intelligence. The 15 carefully reviewed and revised articles presented are organized in topical sections on human-centric computing, ambient interfaces, and architectures for ambient intelligence.

Inhalt

Human-Centric Computing.- Common Sense Reasoning - From Cyc to Intelligent Assistant.- Face for Ambient Interface.- Empathic Computing.- Location and Activity Recognition Using eWatch: A Wearable Sensor Platform.- Ambient Interfaces.- Co-Creation in Ambient Narratives.- Living with Hyper-reality.- Ambient Pre-Communication.- AmbientBrowser: Web Browser in Everyday Life.- Online Music Search by Tapping.- Whistling to Machines.- Speaker Identification and Speech Recognition Using Phased Arrays.- Architectures in Ambient Intelligence.- A Middleware for the Deployment of Ambient Intelligent Spaces.- Ambient Interfaces for Elderly People at Home.- A Smart Electric Wheelchair Using UPnP.- Collaborative Discovery Through Biological Language Modeling Interface.