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Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life

Foreword by Emile Aarts

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3864)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Human-Centric Computing

    1. Common Sense Reasoning – From Cyc to Intelligent Assistant

      • Kathy Panton, Cynthia Matuszek, Douglas Lenat, Dave Schneider, Michael Witbrock, Nick Siegel et al.
      Pages 1-31
    2. Face for Ambient Interface

      • Maja Pantic
      Pages 32-66
    3. Empathic Computing

      • Yang Cai
      Pages 67-85
    4. Location and Activity Recognition Using eWatch: A Wearable Sensor Platform

      • Uwe Maurer, Anthony Rowe, Asim Smailagic, Daniel Siewiorek
      Pages 86-102
  3. Ambient Interfaces

    1. Co-Creation in Ambient Narratives

      • Mark van Doorn, Arjen P. de Vries
      Pages 103-129
    2. Living with Hyper-reality

      • Leonardo Bonanni
      Pages 130-141
    3. Ambient Pre-Communication

      • Atsunobu Kimura, Yoshihiro Shimada, Minoru Kobayashi
      Pages 142-156
    4. AmbientBrowser: Web Browser in Everyday Life

      • Satoshi Nakamura, Mitsuru Minakuchi, Katsumi Tanaka
      Pages 157-177
    5. Online Music Search by Tapping

      • Geoffrey Peters, Diana Cukierman, Caroline Anthony, Michael Schwartz
      Pages 178-197
    6. Whistling to Machines

      • Urko Esnaola, Tim Smithers
      Pages 198-226
    7. Speaker Identification and Speech Recognition Using Phased Arrays

      • Roger Xu, Gang Mei, ZuBing Ren, Chiman Kwan, Julien Aube, Cedrick Rochet et al.
      Pages 227-238
  4. Architectures in Ambient Intelligence

    1. A Middleware for the Deployment of Ambient Intelligent Spaces

      • Diego López-de-Ipiña, Juan Ignacio Vázquez, Daniel Garcia, Javier Fernández, Iván García, David Sáinz et al.
      Pages 239-255
    2. Ambient Interfaces for Elderly People at Home

      • Fausto J. Sainz Salces, Michael Baskett, David Llewellyn-Jones, David England
      Pages 256-284
    3. A Smart Electric Wheelchair Using UPnP

      • D. Cascado, S. Vicente, J. L. Sevillano, C. Amaya, A. Linares, G. Jiménez et al.
      Pages 285-299
    4. Collaborative Discovery Through Biological Language Modeling Interface

      • Madhavi Ganapathiraju, Vijayalaxmi Manoharan, Raj Reddy, Judith Klein-Seetharaman
      Pages 300-321
  5. Back Matter

About this book

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 combining multi-disciplinary fields including computer science, electrical engineering, industrial design, architectural design, user interfaces, and cognitive science.

Originating from the Workshop on Ambient Intelligence in Everyday Life held at the Miramar Congress Center, San Sebastian, Spain, in July 2005, this book is devoted to the cognitive aspects of ambient intelligence. The 15 carefully reviewed and revised articles presented are organized in topical sections on human-centric computing, ambient interfaces, and architectures for ambient intelligence.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ambient Intelligence Lab, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

    Yang Cai

  • Informatika Fakultatea, University of the Basque Country, Donostia, Spain

    Julio Abascal

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