Ubiquitous Display Environments
Our increasingly smart environments will sense, track and model users and provide them with personalized services. We can already embed computers in everyday objects such as shirt buttons and pencils; objects of all sizes, from wristwatches to billboards,
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Ubiquitous Display Environments
Editors Antonio Kru¨ger German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Saarbru¨cken Germany
Tsvi Kuflik University of Haifa Haifa Israel
Managing Editors Prof. Dov M. Gabbay Augustus De Morgan Professor of Logic Department of Computer Science King’s College London Strand, London, UK
Prof. Dr. Jo¨rg Siekmann Forschungsbereich Deduktions- und Multiagentensysteme, DFKI Saarbru¨cken, Germany
Cognitive Technologies ISSN 1611-2482 ISBN 978-3-642-27662-0 ISBN 978-3-642-27663-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-27663-7 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2012940253 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Nowadays, we increasingly live in smart environments – computerized environments that can sense, track, and model their users and, as a result, provide them with personalized services. Computers have become small enough to be embedded in everyday objects, from shirt buttons to pencils; high-quality (and soon to be flexible) computer display devices can be embedded in objects of all sizes, from wristwatches to billboards; a
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