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True Visions

The Emergence of Ambient Intelligence

By: Emile H.L. Aarts (Editor), JosÃ© Luis EncarnaÃ§Ã£o (Editor)

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Hardcover | 7 July 2006

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Ambient intelligence (AI) refers to a developing technology that will increasingly make our everyday environment sensitive and responsive to our presence. The AI vision requires technology invisibly embedded in our everyday surroundings, present whenever we need it that will lead to the seamless integration of lighting, sounds, vision, domestic appliances, and personal healthcare products to enhance our living experience. Written for the non-specialist seeking an authoritative but accessible overview of this interdisciplinary field, True Visions explains how the devices making up the AI world will operate collectively using information and intelligence hidden in the wireless network connecting them. Expert contributions address key AI components such as smart materials and textiles, system architecture, mobile computing, broadband communication, and underlying issues of human-environment interactions. It seeks to unify the perspectives of scientists from diverse backgrounds ranging from the physics of materials to the aesthetics of industrial design as it describes the emergence of ambient intelligence, one of today's most compelling areas of innovation.

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Into Ambient Intelligence	p. 1
The Vision	p. 1
Trends and Opportunities	p. 2
"More Moore" and "More than Moore"	p. 3
Weaving the Web	p. 3
The Experience Economy	p. 4
Advances in Design	p. 5
A Brief History of Ambient Intelligence	p. 6
Early Developments at Philips	p. 6
Opening up the Vision	p. 7
Where Are We Headed?	p. 8
Realizing Ambient Intelligence	p. 10
For the Well-Being	p. 10
Reorientation	p. 11
Impact Through Integration	p. 13
Turning Vision into Reality	p. 14
Ambient Intelligence Becomes a Success	p. 16
Information, Society and Technology	p. 17
Introduction	p. 17
The AmI Vision: A Different Encounter Between Technology and Society	p. 19
Shifts from Technology to Usage	p. 19
Shifts in EU RTD Framework Programmes	p. 20
Designing Ambient Intelligence is Designing Social Structures	p. 21
IST, the European Social Model and the Lisbon Objectives	p. 22
Foresight in IST in Europe	p. 24
Social Drivers	p. 24
Promising IST Applications	p. 25
AmI Innovation in Europe	p. 27
Sharing of Knowledge, Learning and Experiences	p. 27
Health Care	p. 28
eGovernance	p. 30
Biometric Identification	p. 31
Conclusions	p. 32
Ambient Culture	p. 35
Prelude	p. 35
Questions, Questions, Questions	p. 35
What Should Ambient Intelligence Do?	p. 36
Fundamental Human Drives	p. 36
Social and Physical Constraints	p. 38
Potential for Growth, Profit, and Wealth	p. 39
How Will Ambient Intelligence Do What It Does?	p. 39
Relevant, Meaningful, Understandable	p. 40
Some Examples	p. 41
La Casa Prossima Futura	p. 41
New Nomads	p. 42
Living Memory	p. 43
How Do We Create the "Right" Ambient Intelligence - the Relevant Hypothesis for a Desirable Future?	p. 44
Imagineering	p. 45
Communication	p. 46
Getting Real	p. 46
Into Production	p. 47
Business Issues	p. 47
Partnerships	p. 47
Bottom of the Pyramid	p. 48
Deeper Issues	p. 49
Educating Our Intelligent Objects	p. 49
The Next Challenge	p. 50
Where Is the Boundary?	p. 50
Which Reality Is Real?	p. 51
How to Measure Intelligence?	p. 52
The Culture of Ambient Intelligence - Human Culture in the Broadest Sense	p. 52
Smart Materials	p. 53
Introduction	p. 53
Chromogenic Materials	p. 54
Thermochromic Skins Based on Liquid Crystals	p. 56
Switchable Mirrors	p. 58
Switchable Cholesteric Mirrors	p. 61
Electronic Skins and Paintable Displays	p. 63
Polymers with a Mechanical Response	p. 66
Electrically Stimulated Responsive Polymers	p. 68
Temperature-Driven Responsive Polymers	p. 76
Light-Driven Polymer Smart Materials	p. 79
Other Stimuli	p. 81
Electronic Dust and e-Grains	p. 83
Introduction	p. 83
Basic Construction of Self-Sufficient Wireless Sensor Nodes - e-Grains	p. 85
System Design	p. 87
System Integration Technologies	p. 89
Stacking of Organic Substrates	p. 90
Integration of Flexible Functional Layers	p. 93
Embedded Components in Organic Substrates	p. 101
Wafer-Level Integration by Chip or Wafer Stacking	p. 102
Autonomous Energy Supply for e-Grains	p. 105
Wafer-Level Integration of Lithium-Polymer Batteries	p. 106
Micro-fuel Cell Integration	p. 107
Summary and Outlook	p. 110
Electronic Textiles	p. 113
Introduction	p. 113
Conductors	p. 115
Textile Wires	p. 115
Metallized Threads	p. 115
Intrinsically Conductive Yarn	p. 116
Resistance	p. 116
Textile Processing with Conductive Threads	p. 117
Weaving	p. 117
Embroidery	p. 118
Interconnection and Packaging	p. 119
Embroidered Contacts	p. 119
Detachable Interconnections	p. 120
Dimensions and Precision	p. 121
Encapsulation	p. 121
Applications	p. 122
ECG Shirt	p. 122
Communication Jacket	p. 124
Textile Transponder	p. 125
Future Challenges	p. 127
Conclusion and Outlook	p. 129
Computing Platforms	p. 131
Reconsidering the Vision	p. 131
"More-Moore": Managing Giga-complexity	p. 132
Managing the Architectural Gap	p. 133
Managing the Physical Gap: Nano-scale Realities Hit Platform Architects	p. 136
Future Computing Platforms: Towards Highly Parallel Tile-based Network-on-a-Chip (NoC)	p. 139
The Devil Is in the Software	p. 143
"More-Than-Moore": Ultra-creativity for Ultra-low Power and Cost	p. 144
Conclusions	p. 146
Software Platforms	p. 149
Introduction	p. 149
Software Systems for Ambient Intelligence	p. 150
Software Architectures	p. 151
Middleware	p. 152
Architectural Framework for Software Systems	p. 153
Aura: User Task-Driven Environment Configuration	p. 155
Architecture	p. 155
Triggers to Dynamic Behavior	p. 156
Dynamic Behavior	p. 157
Gaia: Programmable Active Spaces	p. 158
Architecture	p. 158
Triggers to Dynamic Behavior	p. 160
Dynamic Behavior	p. 161
WSAMI: Ad hoc, Decentralized AmI Environments	p. 162
Architecture	p. 162
Triggers to Dynamic Behavior	p. 164
Dynamic Behavior	p. 165
Assessment and Research Challenges	p. 166
Mobile Computing	p. 169
Computing Everywhere and Anywhere	p. 169
Applications of Mobile Computing	p. 170
Your Personal Economy Will Be in Your Pocket	p. 170
Electronic Tags Replace Bar Codes and Add More to It	p. 171
The House Knows What You Are Up To	p. 171
Attentive Vehicles - Road and Transport Safety	p. 172
Public Services for Citizens	p. 173
Monitoring Product Quality Improves Food Safety	p. 173
In the Bottom Lies the Technology	p. 174
Wireless Communication	p. 174
Wireless Location	p. 175
Multistandard and Flexible - Software Radio	p. 176
Wireless Proximity Technologies -Electronics Tags	p. 176
Wireless Concepts and Technologies for Novel Applications	p. 178
Challenges Imposed on the Domain by Ambient Intelligence	p. 179
How Far Have We Come?	p. 180
Buying and Paying by the Mobile Phone	p. 180
Retail Chains Is Starting to Use Electronic Tags	p. 180
Electronic Luggage Tags at Airports	p. 181
United States Introduces Electronic Passports	p. 181
Electronic Shepherds and Surveillance	p. 182
Mobile Phone as Tourist Guide	p. 183
Attentive Vehicles Seek to Prevent Road Accidents	p. 183
Concluding Remarks	p. 184
Broadband Communication	p. 185
Vision	p. 185
Ongoing Evolutions in Broadband Communication	p. 186
Too Many Wireless Technologies Today?	p. 187
Overview of Existing Wireless Technologies	p. 187
Do We Really Need All Those Technologies?	p. 190
How to Deal with All These Wireless Technologies?	p. 192
The Concept of Personal Networking	p. 192
Main Challenges of Personal Networks	p. 196
Some Personal Network Solutions	p. 199
Conclusions	p. 204
e-Infrastructure and e-Science	p. 209
Introduction	p. 209
e-Science and the Grid	p. 210
The e-Science Vision	p. 210
The e-Science Infrastructure	p. 211
Web Service Grids	p. 212
The "Data Deluge" as a Driver for e-Science	p. 213
Pervasive Computing and Ambient Intelligence	p. 215
Sensor Networks	p. 216
Interaction	p. 217
Intelligence	p. 217
The Semantic Web	p. 218
Towards a Semantic Grid	p. 219
Semantic Web and Pervasive Computing	p. 220
The Symbiosis of Grid and Ambient Intelligent Computing	p. 221
Devices Need the Grid for Computation	p. 221
Devices Need the Grid for Integration	p. 221
The Grid Needs Devices to Interface with the Physical World	p. 222
Virtualization	p. 222
The Information Systems Perspective	p. 222
Grid Computation on Networks of Devices	p. 223
Self-organization	p. 223
Case Studies	p. 223
CombeChem	p. 224
Grid Based Medical Devices for Everyday Health	p. 225
FloodNet	p. 226
Challenges to the Vision	p. 227
Conclusions	p. 228
Context Aware Services	p. 231
Introduction	p. 231
A Brief History of Context	p. 232
Context in Artificial Intelligence	p. 232
Context in Computer Vision	p. 233
Context in Mobile Computing	p. 233
Defining Context	p. 233
A Conceptual Framework for Context Aware Systems	p. 234
A Layered Model for Context Aware Services	p. 235
Defining Situation Models as Interaction Scripts	p. 236
Principle 1: Keep It Simple	p. 237
Principle 2: Behaviour Drives Design	p. 237
Example: Context Aware Automatic Video Acquisition	p. 238
Sample Recording from Context Aware Automatic Video Acquisition System	p. 242
Learning Context Models: Adaptation and Development	p. 242
Conclusions	p. 244
Computational Intelligence	p. 245
Introduction	p. 245
Machine Intelligence	p. 246
Artificial Intelligence	p. 246
Movie Script Scenarios for Ambient Intelligence	p. 247
Social Versus Cognitive Intelligence	p. 249
AmI Elements of Social Intelligence	p. 250
See, Hear, Feel	p. 251
Understand, Interpret, Relate	p. 252
Look, Find, Remember	p. 253
Act, Adapt, Learn	p. 255
Create, Express, Emerge	p. 256
Computational Paradigms	p. 257
Search	p. 257
Reasoning	p. 261
Learning	p. 265
Evolution	p. 268
Intrinsic Limitations	p. 271
Concluding Challenges	p. 272
Social User Interfaces	p. 275
Introduction	p. 275
Social Interfaces and Multimodal Interaction	p. 277
The Impact of Affect and Social Intelligence: the iCat Case	p. 280
Experiment	p. 281
Tasks	p. 283
Measures	p. 283
Results	p. 284
Modeling Affect in a Dialogical Robot	p. 285
Multimodal Interaction	p. 285
Affective Interactions	p. 287
Conclusions and Future Research	p. 289
Multi-modal Human-Environment Interaction	p. 291
Introduction	p. 291
Tangible Multi-modal Dialog Scenario	p. 292
Instrumented Environment Infrastructure	p. 294
Symmetric Multi-modal Interaction	p. 296
Base Modalities	p. 297
Symmetric Modality Combinations	p. 298
Output Modality Allocation Strategy	p. 299
Anthropomorphized Products	p. 300
The Role of Anthropomorphization	p. 300
Adding Human-like Characteristics	p. 301
State-Based Object Model	p. 302
Usability Study	p. 303
Method	p. 303
Results	p. 304
Lessons Learnt	p. 305
Conclusions and Future Work	p. 305
Intelligent Media	p. 307
Introduction	p. 307
Emergence of Intelligent Media	p. 308
Economic Importance of the Creative Industries	p. 309
Intelligent Media: Key Concepts and Technologies	p. 309
Key Concepts	p. 310
Key Technologies	p. 311
Intelligent Media and the Creative Sectors	p. 312
Film and Television	p. 313
Music	p. 313
Cultural Sectors	p. 315
Design	p. 316
Leisure Sectors	p. 316
Advertising	p. 317
Conclusion	p. 319
Smart Environments	p. 321
Introduction	p. 321
Smart Environments	p. 322
Building Smart Environments: the Ensemble Challenge	p. 325
Another Scenario	p. 325
...And Its Implications	p. 326
Significant Changes	p. 327
The Source of Strategy	p. 329
Goal-Based Interaction	p. 330
Appliances and Event Processing Pipelines	p. 333
Looking at Appliances	p. 333
Towards a Middleware for Self-Organizing Ensembles	p. 334
Ensemble Organization by SodaPop	p. 336
Conclusion	p. 337
Sensory Augmented Computing	p. 339
Introduction	p. 339
Sensing Opportunities for Ambient Intelligence	p. 340
The Logical View: Dimensions of Sensing	p. 340
Physical View: Placement of Sensors	p. 341
Sensors in AmI Research	p. 341
Discussion	p. 343
Proactive Furniture	p. 343
Sensing a Furniture Assembly	p. 344
The IKEA PAX Wardrobe	p. 344
Assembly Plan	p. 345
Observing the User's Actions	p. 347
Sensor Experiments	p. 348
Detecting Partial Actions	p. 349
Detecting Complete Actions	p. 350
Situation-Aware Affordances	p. 351
General Concept	p. 351
Specific Solution	p. 352
Summary of a User Study	p. 354
Conclusions and Discussion	p. 355
Experience Design	p. 359
Introduction	p. 359
Looking to the Future	p. 360
Disappearing Technology	p. 360
The Future Seen from a People's Point of View	p. 363
The Home Experience	p. 364
Design Insights of AmI Systems	p. 365
New Directions	p. 370
Multimodal Interaction	p. 370
Interaction with Intelligent Tangible Objects	p. 372
Ambient Culture	p. 373
User-Centered Design	p. 374
Conclusion	p. 376
Experience Research	p. 377
Introduction	p. 377
Goals of Experience Research	p. 379
EARC Life Cycle Model	p. 380
Exploration of the Problem Situation	p. 381
Feasibility and Quality of Interaction	p. 382
Demonstration and Validation	p. 383
Assisted Reality	p. 384
Facilitators of Experience Research	p. 385
Prototypes	p. 385
Experiments	p. 387
Experience and Knowledge Management	p. 388
Cooperation	p. 388
Example Developments in Experience Research	p. 389
Living Tomorrow	p. 389
Philips HomeLab	p. 389
Telenor's House of the Future	p. 390
Brazilian Sao Paulo e-Government Facility	p. 390
Responsive Home	p. 390
Innovation Lab Katrinebjerg	p. 391
Intelligent House Duisburg Innovation Center - inHaus	p. 391
Challenges	p. 392
References	p. 393
Index	p. 433
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