Ambient Intelligence

1. Front Matter

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2. Service-Oriented Smart and Comfortable Homes for Better Recreation and Leisure Time

   1. Designing Acceptable Assisted Living Services for Elderly Users

      • Martijn H. Vastenburg, Thomas Visser, Marieke Vermaas, David V. Keyson

      Pages 1-12

   2. Dynamic vs. Static Recognition of Facial Expressions

      • Bogdan Raducanu, Fadi Dornaika

      Pages 13-25

   3. Towards Human Centered Ambient Intelligence

      • Thomas Plötz, Christian Kleine-Cosack, Gernot A. Fink

      Pages 26-43

   4. HOMEinTOUCH Designing Two-Way Ambient Communication

      • Marianne Graves Petersen, Aviaja Borup Hansen, Kaspar Rosengreen Nielsen, Rasmus Gude

      Pages 44-57

   5. The Influence of Control on the Acceptance of Ambient Intelligence by Elderly People: An Explorative Study

      • Lambert Zaad, Somaya Ben Allouch

      Pages 58-74

   6. JXTA-SOAP: Implementing Service-Oriented Ubiquitous Computing Platforms for Ambient Assisted Living

      • Michele Amoretti, Maria Chiara Laghi, Francesco Zanichelli, Gianni Conte

      Pages 75-90

   7. The PERSONA Framework for Supporting Context-Awareness in Open Distributed Systems

      • Álvaro Fides-Valero, Matteo Freddi, Francesco Furfari, Mohammad-Reza Tazari

      Pages 91-108

   8. Enabling NFC Technology for Supporting Chronic Diseases: A Proposal for Alzheimer Caregivers

      • Jose Bravo, Diego López-de-Ipiña, Carmen Fuentes, Ramón Hervás, Rocío Peña, Marcos Vergara et al.

      Pages 109-125

3. Intelligent and Cooperative Domestic Devices for Smart Home and Shopping Environments

   1. Designing an Interactive Messaging and Reminder Display for Elderly

      • Erwin R. van Veldhoven, Martijn H. Vastenburg, David V. Keyson

      Pages 126-140

   2. Adaptive Estimation of Emotion Generation for an Ambient Agent Model

      • Tibor Bosse, Zulfiqar A. Memon, Jan Treur

      Pages 141-156

   3. End-User Software Engineering of Smart Retail Environments: The Intelligent Shop Window

      • Mark van Doorn, Arjen de Vries, Emile Aarts

      Pages 157-174

4. Mobility and Logistics

   1. Collect&Drop: A Technique for Multi-Tag Interaction with Real World Objects and Information

      • Gregor Broll, Markus Haarländer, Massimo Paolucci, Matthias Wagner, Enrico Rukzio, Albrecht Schmidt

      Pages 175-191

   2. Tracking Outdoor Sports – User Experience Perspective

      • Aino Ahtinen, Minna Isomursu, Ykä Huhtala, Jussi Kaasinen, Jukka Salminen, Jonna Häkkilä

      Pages 192-209

   3. Rich Tactile Output on Mobile Devices

      • Alireza Sahami, Paul Holleis, Albrecht Schmidt, Jonna Häkkilä

      Pages 210-221

   4. An Ambient Agent Model Exploiting Workflow-Based Reasoning to Recognize Task Progress

      • Fiemke Both, Mark Hoogendoorn, Jan Treur

      Pages 222-239

   5. An Architecture to Automate Ambient Business System Development

      • Pau Giner, Vicente Pelechano

      Pages 240-257

5. Navigation and Guidance in Unknown Environments and Unusual Situations

   1. C-NGINE: A Contextual Navigation Guide for Indoor Environments

      • Manolis Kritsotakis, Maria Michou, Emmanouil Nikoloudakis, Antonis Bikakis, Theodore Patkos, Grigoris Antoniou et al.

      Pages 258-275

   2. Creating Design Guidelines for a Navigational Aid for Mild Demented Pedestrians

      • F. N. Hagethorn, B. J. A. Kröse, P. de Greef, M. E. Helmer

      Pages 276-289

   3. Context-Aware Indoor Navigation

      • Fernando Lyardet, Diego Wong Szeto, Erwin Aitenbichler

      Pages 290-307

This volume contains the proceedings of the Second European Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Conference. The conference took place in Erlangen and Nürnberg, November 19–22, 2008. The concept of ambient intelligence (AmI) was introduced in the late 1990s as a novel paradigm for electronic environments for the years 2010-2020. It builds on the early visions of Weiser describing a novel mobile computing infrastr- ture integrated into the networked environment of people. According to early defi- tions, AmI refers to smart electronic surroundings that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. The added value for the multi-dimensional society we are living in lies in the fact that the large-scale integration of microelectronics into the environment enables people and objects to interact with this environment in a se- less, trustworthy, and natural manner. Obviously, AmI solutions deliver a new quality of communication and information exchange, they help people to fulfill their professional tasks with increasing efficiency, enable the older generation to stay much longer in the privacy of their own homes and the younger one to lead a healthy and responsible life. Smart mobile devices navigate in private apartments as well as in complex public or industrial environments in order to support people with a broad variety of services.

• Ambient Assisted Living
• Ambient Intelligence
• GPS
• Near Field Communication
• Tracking
• Ubiquitous Computing
• acceptability
• activity recognition
• ambient agent
• ambient communication
• assisted living
• asynchronous communication
• context modeling
• interaction design
• retail

• Philips Research Europe, Media Interaction Department, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  Emile Aarts

• INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Montbonnot, France

  James L. Crowley

• Philips Research, Media Interaction, Prof. Holstlaan 4, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  Boris Ruyter

• Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen, Germany

  Heinz Gerhäuser, Janina Schmidt

• Fraunhofer-ATL, Nürnberg, Germany

  Alexander Pflaum

• Fraunhofer-IGD, Interactive Multimedia Appliances, Fraunhoferstr. 5, Darmstadt, Germany

  Reiner Wichert

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