| Contributing Authors | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| References | p. xxi |
| Assistive Environments for Successful Aging | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Assistive Services in the Gator Tech Smart House | p. 3 |
| Technological Enablers for the Gator Tech Smart House | p. 12 |
| Status of the Gator Tech Smart House | p. 24 |
| Conclusion | p. 24 |
| References | p. 25 |
| Do Digital Homes Dream of Electric Families? | p. 27 |
| Introduction | p. 27 |
| User Experience Group Overview: Understanding People to Build Better Technology | p. 29 |
| Guiding Principles for Global Research and Product Investigation | p. 30 |
| Houses are Hairy: The Need for Experience Design | p. 30 |
| Consumer Experience Architecture in Industry | p. 32 |
| Technology for Humans: A Design Framework | p. 33 |
| Conclusion: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Future and Love Science Fiction: A Challenge | p. 38 |
| References | p. 39 |
| An Architecture that Supports Task-Centered Adaptation | p. 41 |
| Introduction | p. 42 |
| Ambient Ecologies and Activity Spheres | p. 46 |
| System Architecture | p. 48 |
| Using Ontologies to Support Adaptation | p. 53 |
| Realizing Adaptation Over Long Time Intervals with the Help of a Fuzzy Agent | p. 54 |
| Adaptive User Interaction | p. 59 |
| Conclusion | p. 63 |
| References | p. 64 |
| Multimodal Presentation of Information in a Mobile Context | p. 67 |
| Introduction | p. 67 |
| Related Work and Objectives | p. 68 |
| The KUP Model | p. 70 |
| Software Architecture | p. 75 |
| Algorithms for Choosing and Instantiating a Modality | p. 76 |
| Implementation and Evaluation | p. 85 |
| Conclusion and Perspectives | p. 91 |
| Notes | p. 92 |
| References | p. 92 |
| Classifier Fusion for Emotion Recognition from Speech | p. 95 |
| Introduction | p. 95 |
| Database Overview | p. 97 |
| Approach | p. 99 |
| Experiments and Results | p. 109 |
| Conclusion | p. 114 |
| Notes | p. 115 |
| References | p. 115 |
| Understanding Mobile Spatial Interaction in Urban Environments | p. 119 |
| Introduction | p. 119 |
| Approach and Hypothesis | p. 120 |
| Learning from Field Studies | p. 122 |
| Result | p. 126 |
| Discussion | p. 132 |
| Interacting and Learning with Mobile Devices in Urban Environments | p. 135 |
| Conclusion and Future Work | p. 136 |
| References | p. 137 |
| Genetic Algorithm for Energy-Efficient Trees in Wireless Sensor Networks | p. 139 |
| Introduction | p. 139 |
| Related Work | p. 140 |
| Problem Statement | p. 143 |
| Genetic Algorithm (GA) | p. 143 |
| Simulation | p. 152 |
| Conclusion | p. 171 |
| Notes | p. 172 |
| References | p. 172 |
| Enhancing Anomaly Detection Using Temporal Pattern Discovery | p. 175 |
| Introduction | p. 175 |
| Temporal Reasoning | p. 177 |
| The MavHome Smart Home | p. 179 |
| TempAl | p. 185 |
| Experimental Findings | p. 190 |
| Conclusion and Future Work | p. 192 |
| References | p. 193 |
| Fault-Resilient Pervasive Service Composition | p. 195 |
| Introduction | p. 195 |
| A Brief Primer on Pervasive Services | p. 197 |
| Virtual Sensors | p. 199 |
| Efficient Pervasive Service Composition | p. 203 |
| Performance Evaluation | p. 208 |
| Putting It All Together: A Comprehensive Solution for Fault Resiliency | p. 215 |
| Related Work | p. 217 |
| Conclusion | p. 220 |
| References | p. 221 |
| Intravein - Parametric Urbanism | p. 225 |
| Introduction | p. 225 |
| Description of Thesis Project | p. 226 |
| Networked Behaviors | p. 227 |
| Informational Experiments | p. 229 |
| Space (in) Formation | p. 235 |
| Distributed Responsive Leisure | p. 241 |
| Conclusion | p. 248 |
| Notes | p. 249 |
| References | p. 249 |
| The Totality of Space | p. 251 |
| Introduction | p. 251 |
| A Discontinuity | p. 252 |
| The Course of Architectural Thought in Banking | p. 254 |
| The Course of Banking Spatial Thought | p. 257 |
| Technology's Effect on Banking Spatial Thought | p. 261 |
| The Contemporary Reality of a Bank's Space | p. 267 |
| Space of a Complex System: The Totality of Space | p. 270 |
| Three Factors in the Formation of the Totality of Space | p. 277 |
| Conclusions - A Possible Architectural Response | p. 280 |
| Notes | p. 282 |
| References | p. 285 |
| Index | p. 289 |
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