Ambient occlusion (AO) provides an effective approximation to global illumination that enjoys widespread use amongst practitioners. In this paper, we present a fast easy-to-implement separable approximation to screen space ambient occlusion. Computing occlusion first along a single direction and then transporting this occlusion into a second pass that is stochastically evaluating the final shad...

Ambient media have recently been introduced as a means to present information in our surrounding space in subtle and unmonopolizing ways, promoting peripheral awareness. This paper explores the issue of matching virtual information to ambient media, investigating ambient counterparts as natural matches and ambient links as user controlled matches. Ambient counterparts are media in our surroundi...

Since the 1980s, there has been an interest in clinical benefits and challenges with use of digital music technology therapy, yet is still little information about experiential potentialities technologies from relational, psychodynamic, ecological frameworks. The ambient mode being presents a heuristic approach to listening when using technology. Performative collaborative autoethnography was u...

This chapter presents an analysis of the ambitions that lie behind the concept of Ambient Intelligence as it is presented by the advocates and researchers working in the field. In particular it looks at the ideas regarding the forms of natural and intuitive forms of interaction that are envisaged including agents and robots from a philosophical perspective. The views on interaction are analysed...

Nowadays elders, often find it difficult to keep track of their cognitive and functional abilities required for remaining independent in their homes. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) are the Ambient Intelligence based technologies for the support of daily activities to elders. Traditional rehabilitation is an example of a common activity elders may require and that usually implies they move to the...

In this paper, I argue for returning to the real world as the starting point for designing future information and collaboration environments and an integration of real and virtual worlds. This is based on the opinion that we have to emphasize again the importance of the rich affordances of the physical, architectural environment. This approach results in augmenting everyday places and objects w...