Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

✍ Scribed by Juan Carlos Augusto, Hideyuki Nakashima, Hamid Aghajan (auth.), Hideyuki Nakashima, Hamid Aghajan, Juan Carlos Augusto (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1292
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) has recently been adopted as a term referring to a multidisciplinary subject which embraces a variety of pre-existing fields of computer science and engineering. Given the diversity of potential applications this relationship naturally extends to other areas of science, such as education, health and social care, entertainment, sports, and transportation, to name a few. AmI brings these resources and many other areas together to provide flexible and intelligent services to users acting in their environments.

Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments is a comprehensive presentation of the latest developments in the burgeoning research area of ambient intelligence and smart environments. Written by leading international experts, this seminal reference organizes all major concepts, theories, methodologies, trends, and challenges into a coherent, unified repository.

About this handbook:

• Offers a current and thorough review of Ambient Intelligence and examines the relative physical infrastructure of smart environments
• Features application-oriented coverage and presents current projects on the subject
• Provides coverage from leading researchers and practitioners in computer science and engineering communities
• Describes infastructure and how sensors are networked and utilized in application settings
• Explores technology that can be built over a networked sensing infrastructure to make resources widely available in an unobtrusive way
• Studies the interaction between humans and artifiical systems
• Probes developments that aim to make artificial systems more rational
• Addresses Multi-Agent Systems—systems that contribute to the resources of an artificial system which can be used to understand different sitautions and decide intelligently
• Investigates a wide range of application ans well as consideration of the impact this technology can have in daily lives.
• Provides insight into some of the recent major projects developed around the world.

This complete volume is an exceptional tool for research scientists, practitioners, senior undergraduate and graduate students in computer science and engineering. This book also presents a useful text for professionals working in service science, education, education, health and social care, entertainment, sports, transportation and urban development.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXVIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: A State of the Art....Pages 3-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
A Survey of Distributed Computer Vision Algorithms....Pages 35-55
Video-Based People Tracking....Pages 57-87
Locomotion Activities in Smart Environments....Pages 89-115
Tracking in Urban Environments Using Sensor Networks Based on Audio-Video Fusion....Pages 117-148
Multi-Camera Vision for Surveillance....Pages 149-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Collaboration Support for Mobile Users in Ubiquitous Environments....Pages 173-199
Pervasive Computing Middleware....Pages 201-227
Case Study of Middleware Infrastructure for Ambient Intelligence Environments....Pages 229-256
Collaborative Context Recognition for Mobile Devices....Pages 257-280
Security Issues in Ubiquitous Computing*....Pages 281-314
Pervasive Systems in Health Care....Pages 315-346
Front Matter....Pages 347-347
Human-centered Computing....Pages 349-370
End-user Customisation of Intelligent Environments....Pages 371-407
Intelligent Interfaces to Empower People with Disabilities....Pages 409-432
Visual Attention, Speaking Activity, and Group Conversational Analysis in Multi-Sensor Environments....Pages 433-461
Using Multi-modal Sensing for Human Activity Modeling in the Real World....Pages 463-478
Recognizing Facial Expressions Automatically from Video....Pages 479-509
Sharing Content and Experiences in Smart Environments....Pages 511-533
User Interfaces and HCI for Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments....Pages 535-558
Front Matter....Pages 347-347
Multimodal Dialogue for Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments....Pages 559-579
Front Matter....Pages 581-581
Smart Monitoring for Physical Infrastructures....Pages 583-607
Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Context Awareness....Pages 609-634
From Autonomous Robots to Artificial Ecosystems....Pages 635-668
Behavior Modeling for Detection, Identification, Prediction, and Reaction (DIPR) in AI Systems Solutions....Pages 669-700
Front Matter....Pages 701-701
Multi-Agent Social Simulation....Pages 703-729
Multi-Agent Strategic Modeling in a Specific Environment....Pages 731-750
Learning Activity Models for Multiple Agents in a Smart Space....Pages 751-769
Mobile Agents....Pages 771-791
Front Matter....Pages 793-793
Ambient Human-to-Human Communication....Pages 795-823
Smart Environments for Occupancy Sensing and Services....Pages 825-849
Smart Offices and Intelligent Decision Rooms....Pages 851-880
Smart Classroom: Bringing Pervasive Computing into Distance Learning....Pages 881-910
Ambient Intelligence in the City Overview and New Perspectives ....Pages 911-938
The Advancement of World Digital Cities....Pages 939-958
Front Matter....Pages 959-959
Human Factors Consideration for the Design of Collaborative Machine Assistants....Pages 961-984
Privacy Sensitive Surveillance for Assisted Living – A Smart Camera Approach....Pages 985-1014
Data Mining for User Modeling and Personalization in Ubiquitous Spaces....Pages 1015-1038
Experience Research: a Methodology for Developing Human-centered Interfaces....Pages 1039-1067
Front Matter....Pages 1069-1069
Computers in the Human Interaction Loop....Pages 1071-1116
Front Matter....Pages 1069-1069
Eye-based Direct Interaction for Environmental Control in Heterogeneous Smart Environments....Pages 1117-1138
Middleware Architecture for Ambient Intelligence in the Networked Home....Pages 1139-1169
The PERSONA Service Platform for AAL Spaces....Pages 1171-1199
ALADIN - a Magic Lamp for the Elderly?....Pages 1201-1227
Japanese Ubiquotous Network Project: Ubila....Pages 1229-1255
Ubiquitous Korea Project....Pages 1257-1283
Erratum....Pages E1-E1
Back Matter....Pages 1285-1293

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Communications Engineering, Networks; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction