Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) has recently been adopted as a term referring to a multidisciplinary subject which embraces a variety of pre-existing fields of computer science and engineering. Given the diversity of potential applications this relationship na

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HANDBOOK OF AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE AND SMART ENVIRONMENTS 1 23

Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

Hideyuki Nakashima · Hamid Aghajan · Juan Carlos Augusto Editors

Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

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Editors Hideyuki Nakashima Future University Hakodate Kameda-Nakano 116-2 Hakodate, Hokkaido 041-8655 Japan [email protected]

Hamid Aghajan Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University 350 Serra Mall Stanford, CA 94305-9515 USA [email protected]

Juan Carlos Augusto School of Computing & Mathematics University of Ulster at Jordanstown Shore Road, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim UK BT37 0QB [email protected]

ISBN 978-0-387-93807-3 e-ISBN 978-0-387-93808-0 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-93808-0 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009935679 c Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010  c Chapter 11 2009 Frank Stajano. Used with permission All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Contents

Part I Introduction Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: A State of the Art . . . . . Juan Carlos Augusto, Hideyuki Nakashima, Hamid Aghajan 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Sensors, Vision, and Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Mobile and Pervasive Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Human-centered Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Artificial Intelligence and Robotics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Multi-Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Societal Implications and Impact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Selected Research Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Perspectives of the Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .