Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life Foreword by Emile Aarts
Ambient Intelligence refers to smart electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. Since its introduction in the late 1990s, this vision has matured, having become quite influential in the development of new con
- PDF / 9,797,764 Bytes
- 334 Pages / 430 x 660 pts Page_size
- 88 Downloads / 143 Views
Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
3864
Yang Cai Julio Abascal (Eds.)
Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life Foreword by Emile Aarts
13
Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Yang Cai Carnegie Mellon University Ambient Intelligence Studio, Cylab CIC 2218, 4720 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA E-mail: [email protected] Julio Abascal University of the Basque Country Dept. of Computer Architecture & Technology, School of Informatics Laboratory of Human-Computer Interaction for Special Needs Manuel Lardizabal 1, 20018 Donostia, Spain E-mail: [email protected]
Library of Congress Control Number: 2006931064
CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.5, H.4, C.2, D.2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-540-37785-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-37785-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. Springer is a part of Springer Science+Business Media springer.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006 Printed in Germany Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper SPIN: 11825890 06/3142 543210
An ordinary summer night in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, where Ambient Intelligence for Everyday Life Workshop was held on July 21-22, 2005.
Foreword
Back in 1997, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Association of Computing Machinery, computer scientists from all over the world were asked for their opinion about the next 50 years of computing. Although rooted in many different disciplines, the scientists’ reactions were strikingly consistent in the sense that they all envisioned a world consisting of distributed computing devices that would surround people in a non-obtrusive way. As one of the first paradigms following this vision, Marc Weiser’s Ubiquitous Computing was aimed at a novel computing infrastructure that would replace the current mobile computing infrastructure by interconnected, transparent, and embedded devices that would facilitate ubiquitous access to any source of information at any place, any point in time and by any person. Such a world could be conceived by a huge distributed network consisting of thousands of interconnected embedded systems surrounding the user and satisfying his or her needs for information, communication, navigation, and ent
Data Loading...
