K. Tserpes, Michal Jacovi, M. Gardner, A. Triantafillou, Benjamin Cohen
{"title":"+Spaces: Intelligent Virtual Spaces for eGovernment","authors":"K. Tserpes, Michal Jacovi, M. Gardner, A. Triantafillou, Benjamin Cohen","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.65","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.65","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent Environments most commonly take a physical form such as homes, offices, hotels, restaurants, shops, that are equipped with advanced networked computer based systems, which enable better or new lifestyles for people. However, Intelligent Environments can also take the form of virtual online spaces such as SecondLife, which can both mimic the real world and provide functionalities which could not be provided in reality, such as advanced simulations and movement. There is the growing trend for people to spend more time in such virtual environments and, to these ends, this work in progress paper reports on a new project, +Spaces which is developing a range of virtual world tools for e-government applications, and presents some of the concepts and technical challenges involved in creating these intelligent virtual spaces for e-government.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128700369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Providing Awareness of Elder's Situations of Care through a Context-Aware Notification Environment: A Preliminary Evaluation","authors":"S. Nava-Muñoz, A. Morán, J. Favela","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.32","url":null,"abstract":"Taking care of an elder with cognitive decline is not an easy task. Given their condition, elders could be involved in situations that may affect their physical integrity or quality of life, and caregivers may be unaware of the situation or not be able to attend it on time. This paper proposes a context-aware notification environment to support the work of caregivers. The aim is to increase the caregiver’s awareness about the situations of care of older people in a nursing home, so that caregivers could act appropriately and timely to attend those situations. Firstly, we present the results of a study to understand the situations of care that occur at a nursing home. Later, we propose the design of a context-aware notification environment whose design was informed by this understanding. One of the main features of this environment is that it takes into consideration the contextual information both from the caregiver and from the elder in order to adapt the notification. Preliminary results of the evaluation of an implementation with an audio notification mechanism are promising. During the evaluation period caregivers perceived an increase in their awareness of the situations of care and a safer working environment regarding the provided quality of care.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116128145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Reflection of Current Search Engine Techniques on Medical Search Environments","authors":"A. Inthiran, S. Alhashmi, P. Ahmed","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.38","url":null,"abstract":"In this day and age medical search engines have become a necessity. External influences and user trends contribute to the popularity of medical search engines. Unlike their predecessors (horizontal search engines) extensive search strategies have yet to be implemented on vertical search engines like medical search engines. The composition and structure of medical search engines draw many users to utilize them regularly. This makes a medical search engine an ideal domain to implement and asses the feasibility of existing search engine strategies. By doing so, users will be provided with relevant search results. In this research study, we review current search strategies and analyze the applicability of these techniques on medical search environments. We also suggest a direction for the future of search engine strategies on medical search engines.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114266029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Panagiotis Petridis, Oliver Goh, I. Dunwell, David Wortley, S. Freitas
{"title":"iSpace- Smart Monitoring of Higher and Further Institutions in UK","authors":"Panagiotis Petridis, Oliver Goh, I. Dunwell, David Wortley, S. Freitas","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.72","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.72","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decade, Further and Higher education institutes in the UK are face with demands to reduce the energy and carbon emissions as a result of the climate changes and rising energy prices. iSpace proposes an innovative approach to closing the feedback loop between users and their carbon footprint. This approach is realised through greater user engagement facilitated by more accessible and transparent remote monitoring and control of carbon usage using the Shaspa Service framework. The Shaspa Service Framework enables individual users within FE/HE institutions to compare their energy consumption with others and to monitor the performance of individual buildings via the build in social energy meter.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"160 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116237360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Digital to Ubiquitous Cities: Defining a Common Architecture for Urban Development","authors":"Leonidas G. Anthopoulos, P. Fitsilis","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.61","url":null,"abstract":"Digital cities have been evolved from web applications and knowledge bases to smart urban environments. This evolution has mainly been based on broadband metro-networks and complex information systems, and it suggests the form of the future city that is called wireless/smart/digital or ubiquitous city. Although common practices are being developed all over the world, different priorities are defined and different architectures are followed. In this paper we summarize on the applied architectures of multiple city case studies, we use the experiences of the digital city of Trikala, Greece, and we conclude to a common Enterprise Architecture for digital city cases. This common architecture identifies the blue prints for urban information based development. Moreover, this paper presents a common architecture for service delivery in urban spaces.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114711054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building Intelligent Environments by Adding Smart Artifacts to Spaces: A Peer-to-Peer Architecture","authors":"S. Loke","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.12","url":null,"abstract":"We envision an intelligent environment comprising collections of smart artifacts, each artifact with an embedded processor, networking and sensing capabilities. The interactive capabilities of the environment are due to the collective working of the smart artifacts. This position paper proposes a rule-based declarative programming model for programming intelligent environment behaviours involving a collection of smart artifacts. We outline our language, provide examples and highlight issues. We contend that a peer-to-peer architecture forms a useful approach to building (and extending, over time) intelligent environments, i.e., by adding (perhaps incrementally over time, a few artifacts at a time) cooperative programmable smart artifacts to physical environments.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127534500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Asier Aztiria, A. Izaguirre, R. Basagoiti, J. Augusto, D. Cook
{"title":"Automatic Modeling of Frequent User Behaviours in Intelligent Environments","authors":"Asier Aztiria, A. Izaguirre, R. Basagoiti, J. Augusto, D. Cook","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.9","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent Environments depend on their capability to understand and anticipate user’s habits and needs. Therefore, learning user’s common behaviours becomes an important step towards allowing an environment to provide such personalized services. Due to the complexity of the entire learning system, this paper will focus on the automatic discovering of models of user’s behaviours. Discovering the models means to discover the order of such actions, representing user’s behaviours as sequences of actions.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124140784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Framework for Auditory Displays in Intelligent Environments","authors":"Ralf Jung","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.15","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a novel framework for Auditory Displays is presented that provides methods to notify persons in instrumented environments individually. The used non-speech audio cues are unnoticeable for others and they have no disturbing effect on attendees. On the symbolic level, the notification signals represent events and can be seamlessly embedded in an ambient soundscape running in the background of the listener’s attention. The type of notification depends on the user’s preferences as well as on his/her current situation and location.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122662540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Baumgarten, D. Guldenring, M. Poland, C. Nugent, J. Hallberg
{"title":"Embedding Self-Awareness into Objects of Daily Life -- The Smart Kettle","authors":"M. Baumgarten, D. Guldenring, M. Poland, C. Nugent, J. Hallberg","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.14","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent Environments on varying scales and for different purposes are slowly becoming a reality. In the near future, global smart world infrastructures will become a commodity that will support various activities of daily life at different degrees of realism. Such infrastructures have the potential to offer dedicated, context- and situation-aware information and services by simultaneously providing the next-generation of data collection, execution and service provisioning layers. One key aspect of this vision is the correct monitoring and understanding of how people interact with their environment; how they can actually benefit from the added intelligence; and finally how future services can be improved or better personalized to enhance human environment interaction as a whole. This level of intelligence is of particular relevance in the health and social care domain where person-centric services can be deployed to assist or even enable a person in performing activities of daily living. This paper discusses the concept of embedded self-aware profiles for smart devices that can be used to gain a deeper contextual understanding of their use and also discusses the emergence of a general model of Ambient Intelligence that is based on the collective existence and behavior of such smart devices. Although generic in principle, the proposed concepts have been exemplified by a distinct use case, namely a smart kettle.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"228 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131418881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deep Design for Ambient Intelligence: Toward Acceptable Appliances for Higher Quality of Life of the Elderly","authors":"David Zejda","doi":"10.1109/IE.2010.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2010.57","url":null,"abstract":"Deep design outlined in the paper is a new approach, where not only tasks, immediate emotions or habits and behaviours are considered. Deep design aims to identify sources of emotionally rich and strong experiences and feelings in order to augment them subsequently by means of smart technology. The most intrinsical needs of users, their deep needs, should be revealed and reflected in the process. Evaluation of a new technology is described as a successive process, starting with immediate decision, followed by short-term acceptance and finally long-term appropriation driven by the deep needs in a role of high order reinforcers. Deep design builds on various existing human-centric and emotion-driven approaches, but brings them further, or maybe rather deeper, bringing deep psycho-technical and socio-technical factors on the highest levels of importance. The idea of deep design is being introduced in a context of ambient technologies for elderlies, because actually there are certain dissonances in what do elderlies need and what many current intelligent technologies offer. As we show in the paper, our research in sources ranging from gerontology to ambient intelligence revealed four clusters of deep needs of elderlies - social touch, autonomy with anticipated support, feeling of being competent and feeling of helpfulness and self-worth.","PeriodicalId":180375,"journal":{"name":"2010 Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"352 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134501497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}