Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life Foreword by Emile Aarts /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cai, Yang (Editor), Abascal, Julio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3864
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Software engineering.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Artificial intelligence.; Computers and civilization.; Computer Science.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Computers and Society.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Computer Communication Networks.; Software Engineering.

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 concepts for information processing as well as combin...

Table of Contents:

• 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.