Editors:
- Organizes all major concepts, theories, methodologies, trends, and challenges into a coherent and unified repository
- Provides the first available reference into this emerging area of research
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Table of contents (47 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Mobile and Pervasive Computing
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Human-centered Interfaces
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About this book
Our homes anticipate when we want to wake up. Our computers predict what music we want to buy. Our cars adapt to the way we drive. In today’s world, even washing machines, rice cookers and toys have the capability of autonomous decision-making. As we grow accustomed to computing power embedded in our surroundings, it becomes clear that these ‘smart environments’, with a number of devices controlled by a coordinating system capable of ‘ambient intelligence’, will play an ever larger role in our lives. This handbook provides readers with comprehensive, up-to-date coverage in what is a key technological field. . Systematically dealing with each aspect of ambient intelligence and smart environments, the text covers everything, from visual information capture and human/computer interaction to multi-agent systems, network use of sensor data, and building more rationality into artificial systems. The book also details a wide range of applications, examines case studies of recent major projects from around the world, and analyzes both the likely impact of the technology on our lives, and its ethical implications.
With a wide variety of separate disciplines all conducting research relevant to this field, this handbook encourages collaboration between disparate researchers by setting out the fundamental concepts from each area that are relevant to ambient intelligence and smart environments, providing a fertile soil in which ground-breaking new work candevelop.
Reviews
From the reviews: “This is one of the most comprehensive collections of papers on the subject of ambient intelligence. With 1,294 pages and 100 illustrations, it has no close competitor on the market. It should be of great use to both researchers and practitioners. … This handbook is an exceptional source of knowledge for researchers, knowledge workers, and graduate students in CS and engineering. It will also benefit professionals who work in areas that relate to the potential applications listed above.” (Waldemar Koczkodaj, ACM Computing Reviews, March, 2010)
Aus den Rezensionen:
“... Eine ausgezeichnete, ausserst umfang reiche - auch mit praktischen Beispielen ausgestattete - Prasentation des aktuellen Forschungsstandes, die nicht nur auf zeigt, was in den einzelnen Disziplinen bereits erreicht wurde, sondern dazu motiviert, gewisse Fragestellungen in Zukunft interdisztphnar anzugehen.“ (in: Bulletin SEV/VSE, 21/January/2011, Issue 1, S. 75)
Editors and Affiliations
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Future University Hakodate, Hakodate, Japan
Hideyuki Nakashima
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Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Hamid Aghajan
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School of Computing & Mathematics, University of Ulster at Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, UK
Juan Carlos Augusto
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments
Editors: Hideyuki Nakashima, Hamid Aghajan, Juan Carlos Augusto
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93808-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-93807-3Published: 21 October 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-93808-0Published: 01 October 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 1294
Number of Illustrations: 100 b/w illustrations
Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Engineering, general, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Communications Engineering, Networks, Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics