Expert environments: machine intelligence methods for ambient intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Methods for Ambient Intelligence

Ambient Intelligence (ISTAG (2001) Scenarios for Ambient Intelligence in 2010) is a vision that enables intelligent environments with pervasive technology. In this vision human users are at the cent re, but machine and human are seen as equal, collaborating, to improve both human being and machine performance. Ambient Intelligence offers many benefits. For example, by inst rumenting public and ...

Ambient Intelligence Environments

The trend in the direction of hardware cost reduction and miniaturization allows including computing devices in several objects and environments (embedded systems). Ambient Intelligence (AmI) deals with a new world where computing devices are spread everywhere (ubiquity), allowing the human being to interact in physical world environments in an intelligent and unobtrusive way. These environment...

AGENTS AND AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

User-Centric Transactions for Ambient Intelligence Environments

In this paper we investigate the concept of designing user-centric transaction protocols towards achieving dependable coordination in AmI environments. As a proof-of-concept, we propose a protocol that takes into account the schedules of roaming users that move from one AmI environment to another, to avoid abnormal terminations of transactions when the users leave an environment for short, only...

Responsive environments: User experiences for ambient intelligence

In this paper we review the emerging field of responsive environments as an ambient intelligence system with a focus on user experience. We see responsive environments as a combination between the scientific developments that resulted in Ambient Intelligence systems and the aesthetic motivation behind interactive art installations. This next development in Information and Communication Technolo...