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| Special Session on Ambient
Intelligence for Smart Home Environments
Special session Organiser: Dr. Norbert Streitz, IPSI/Fraunhofer, Germany Ambient Intelligence (AmI) reflects an emerging and popular field of research and development that is oriented towards the goal of "intelligent" or "smart" environments that react in an attentive, adaptive, and active (sometimes even proactive) way to the presence and activities of humans and objects in order to provide intelligent/smart services to the inhabitants of these environments. The goal requires sensing capabilities, processing power, computing intelligence, and actuating capabilities distributed in the surrounding environment. While there will be quite a lot of technology involved, the goal is to hide it from the users by having the computer "disappear" in the users' perception and providing them with new forms of interactions that are rather implicit and not in the way one operates his/her programmes on a personal computer. In this specific session, we will focus on AmI applications for the Home Environment where individuals or groups of people such as families and friends interact and will be supported by intelligent user services. The applications can address issues of home care and safety, home information and entertainment and the situation of several distributed homes that extend home environment to remote sites. Papers may discuss theories, applications, evaluations, limitations, general tools and techniques. Instructions for Manuscripts Authors are requested to submit a 'Microsoft‘Word’ file for their manuscript. The paper should not be more than 10 pages long and has to follow strictly The Institute of Engineering and Technology guidelines which are available at http://conferences.iee.org/ie06/Paper%20Sample.doc All manuscripts should be emailed to the special session organizer at the following email : streitz@ipsi.fraunhofer.de. All manuscripts should be received by the workshop deadline for paper submission which is the 4th April 2006. For more information please contact: |