Many composers today are using control voltage to MIDI converters and laptop computers running algorithmic composition software to create interactive instruments and responsive environments. Using an integrated device that combines the two devices at the performance would reduce latency, improve system stability, and reduce setup complexity. Composers and performers, however, have chosen not to...

In line with the goals of Europe 2020 strategy, energy resource saving represent a key issue for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Recent developments in ICTs offer home devices featuring local intelligence and connectivity services. So, basing on such technologies, a house becomes Collaborative Smart Environment (CSE), a place where multimedia services are provided to users, while heter...

The Archimedes Project is studying smart houses as part of a larger topic of “Human Centered Interfaces to Ubiquitous Computers.” Our research strongly suggests that the success of smart houses will depend on the creation of Intelligent Environments that embody the following three components: 1. A smart infrastructure that adheres to widely accepted standards 2. Smart appliances from many manuf...

Most people with Downs Syndrome (DS) experience low integration with society. Recent research and new opportunities for their integration in mainstream education and work provided numerous cases where levels of achievement exceeded the (limiting) expectations. This paper describes a project, POSEIDON, aiming at developing a technological infrastructure which can foster a growing number of servi...

The pervasive sensing technologies found in smart environments offer unprecedented opportunities for monitoring and assisting the individuals who live and work in these spaces. An aspect of daily life that is important for one's emotional and physical health is social interaction. In this paper we investigate the use of smart environment technologies to detect and analyze interactions in smart ...

People have a great variety in their needs. There is a great demand for personalized services, especially those interacting with their environment. In this paper, we propose a norm based approach for personalizing smart environments that constraint user requirements by means of non functional requirements expressed in terms of permissions, obligations or prohibitions.

Playable cities are smart cities that allow artists, urban designers, and city dwellers to introduce sensors and actuators or use already in-place sensors and actuators for playful applications. These applications allow users to interact with street furniture or with and in public buildings. Sensors and actuators can be embedded in street furniture and public spaces, they can be addressed direc...

This article discusses the idea of city as a platform. The analysis focuses on the forms and implications of citizen involvement in publicly-supported participatory innovation platforms that facilitate urban economic development in the welfare society context. The discussion opens with a review of the smart city discourse, which in the context of economic development policy translates into citi...

Social networks drive todays opinion and content diffusion. Humans interact in social media on the basis of their emotional states and it is important to capture people emotional scales for a particular theme. Such interactions are facilitated and become evident in smart environments characterized by mobile devices and new smart city contexts. This work proposes a sentiment analysis approach wh...