{"title":"Digital Techniques of Representation and Theoretical Discourse: From Folded Space to Intelligent Architectural Environments","authors":"Eleni Vlachonasiou","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.28","url":null,"abstract":"The adoption of digital techniques of representation in the 21st century has often been associated with a lack of theory in architecture. This paper attempts to trace changes in architectural thinking between two different periods, to address issues of theory in architecture and to find links between these changes and the singularities of digital techniques of representation.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"174 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123129950","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":"AdAPT -- A Dynamic Approach for Activity Prediction and Tracking for Ambient Intelligence","authors":"J. Frey","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.38","url":null,"abstract":"With recent advancements in supporting fields like embedded systems and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), intelligent environments are becoming reality. However, instrumenting an environment with a set of sensors and actuators and applying some automation rules alone doesn't make the environment intelligent. Learning and adapting to user behaviors and gaining some basic knowledge about the underlying intention is an essential feature of an intelligent system. Here, we introduce AdAPT, which is an incremental approach for recognizing, predicting and tracking Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) within a smart home infrastructure. Our approach does not make any predefined assumptions about typical activity models but tries to learn and adapt to the user's actual behavior continuously. We focus on designing suitable interaction concepts to support an optimal, continuous and unobtrusive adaption to the user. In this paper, we introduce the AdAPT project, highlight relevant research questions and provide a first description of the proposed system design.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"83 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124804770","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":"Intelligent Monitoring of Stereotyped Motion Disorders in Case of Children with Autism","authors":"Giovanni Paragliola, A. Coronato","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.12","url":null,"abstract":"Autism is a complex developmental disability, which is the result of a neurological disorder that has an effect on normal brain function, affecting person's communication and social interaction skills. Main symptoms include motion conditions and stereotypical behaviors. This paper focuses on the detection and monitoring of stereotypical motion conditions of patients with autism. Artificial Intelligence techniques are used to identify stereotypical motion conditions, whereas the Situation-Awareness paradigm allows clinicians to obtain further medical information and the reduction of misclassifications. Results are under validation at the Department of Child Psychiatry at Children's Hospital Santobono-Pausilipon in Naples.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126982754","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}
A. Karamouzi, Dimitris Papalexopoulos, Athina Stavridou, S. Tzimopoulou, T. Varoudis
{"title":"D.L.D., Dynamic Lighting Design: Parametric Interactive Lighting Software in Urban Public Space","authors":"A. Karamouzi, Dimitris Papalexopoulos, Athina Stavridou, S. Tzimopoulou, T. Varoudis","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.13","url":null,"abstract":"D.L.D., Dynamic Lighting Design, is a three year, E.U. funded, ongoing research project, concerning ways of designing dynamic luminous environments for pedestrians in open public spaces. This paper presents a set of ideas about how space and the surface of architecture are defined in a dynamic luminous environment, which enhance pedestrian lighting and encourage people to walk and visit public spaces. The D.L.D., parametric interactive lighting software in urban public space, will also be outlined in this paper.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130086095","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":"Wearable Recognition System for Physical Activities","authors":"A. M. Khan, M. Lawo, H. Papadopoulos","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.50","url":null,"abstract":"Physical activity is a major part of a user's context for wearable computing applications. The system should be able to acquire the user's physical activities by using body worn sensors. We want to develop a personal activity recognition system that is practical, reliable, and can be used for health-care related applications. We propose to use the axivity device [1] which is a ready-made, light weight, small and easy to use device for identifying basic physical activities like lying, sitting, walking, standing, cycling, running, ascending and descending stairs using decision tree classifier. In this paper, we present an approach to build a system that exhibits this property and provides evidence based on data for 8 different activities collected from 12 different subjects. Our results indicate that the system has a good accuracy rate.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124531762","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":"Selectable Directional Audio for Multiple Telepresence in Immersive Intelligent Environments","authors":"Alfonso Torrejon, V. Callaghan, H. Hagras","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.33","url":null,"abstract":"The general focus of this paper concerns the development of telepresence within intelligent immersive environments. The overall aim is the development of a system that combines multiple audio and video feeds from geographically dispersed people into a single environment view, where sound appears to be linked to the appropriate visual source on a panoramic viewer based on the gaze of the user. More specifically this paper describes a novel directional audio system for telepresence which seeks to reproduce sound sources (conversations) in a panoramic viewer in their correct spatial positions to increase the realism associated with telepresence applications such as online meetings. The intention of this work is that external attendees to an online meeting would be able to move their head to focus on the video and audio stream from a particular person or group so as decrease the audio from all other streams (i.e. speakers) to a background level. The main contribution of this paper is a methodology that captures and reproduces these spatial audio and video relationships. In support of this we have created a multiple camera recording scheme to emulate the behavior of a panoramic camera, or array of cameras, at such meeting which uses the Chroma key photographic effect to integrate all streams into a common panoramic video image thereby creating a common shared virtual space. While this emulation is only implemented as an experiment, it opens the opportunity to create telepresence systems with selectable real time video and audio streaming using multiple camera arrays. Finally we report on the results of an evaluation of our spatial audio scheme that demonstrates that the techniques both work and improve the users' experience, by comparing a traditional omni directional audio scheme versus selectable directional binaural audio scenarios.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"20 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116799808","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":"Visualizing Urban Anaylsis in Mixed Reality","authors":"Lukas Treyer, A. Koltsova, S. Georgakopoulou","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.44","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on the computational creation of animated data visualization used to communicate urban analysis and design in a video. The goal is to combine abstract analysis information with concrete qualitative impressions of a location in the case study area of Zurich. Different urban analysis methods are used to procedurally create an animation with the open source software Blender that facilitates also the compositing process of animation with video. The resulting videos are created during an elective course at ETH Zurich. Anticipating the advent of augmented and mixed reality applications for daily life, we elaborate on their usability for urban design, education and collaborative planning with relatively easy to learn video effect methods. Not only different levels of abstraction are visualized but also -- inherent to the medium of video -- the relation to time.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126497640","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":"SEEDrive -- An Adaptive and Rule Based Driving System","authors":"Emre Yay, N. M. Madrid","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.25","url":null,"abstract":"In the last decades energy-efficiency and road safety became an important factor. Therefore more and more sensors and control units were built in to the vehicles whose goals were, among the comfort, to save energy and to increase the road safety by optimising the car. However, the energy-efficiency and road safety can also be increased by adapting the individual driving behaviour to the given situation. In this paper a driving system called SEEDrive is introduced, which is in development. Its goal is to educate the driver in energy-efficient and safe driving behaviour by using in-vehicle sensors and serial-bus systems to get information about the car, the driver and the environment. SEEDrive adapts itself to the individual driving behaviour and gives adequate recommendations regarding energy-efficiency and safety in real-time. This allows eliminating bad driving habits while also considering the driver needs.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121341330","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 Design Framework for Smart City Learning Scenarios","authors":"J. Malek, M. Laroussi, H. Ghézala","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.34","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present a design Framework for Smart City Learning scenarios based on three main aspects Learner, Contextualized Activity and Space. The strengths of our Design framework lie in the fact that, in a formal manner through friendly graphical interfaces, it allows pedagogical designers and teachers:(1) to specify, model, generate and simulate different types of context-aware and adaptive learning activities (e-learning, M-learning and P-learning) and their related contexts. (2) to design indoor and outdoor spaces within smart cities to enable pupils or students to learn through factual cases and to experiment various learning scenarios.(3) To model and simulate interactions and co-adaptivity rules between Learner, Contextualized Activity and Space.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122994242","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":"Stable Metrics in Amorphous Computing: An Application to Validate Operation and Monitor Behavior","authors":"M. Lear","doi":"10.1109/IE.2013.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IE.2013.18","url":null,"abstract":"A recurring theme in intelligent environments is the intelligent surface composed of nanoscale processing units (smart dust). Such a surface (iSurface) can be considered an amorphous computer composed of a large array of identical processing units (iCells) each with its own sensor/effectors. Whilst nano-sized particles interconnecting in an ad hoc way may just be a dream, there are more practical approaches that could have short term applications in intelligent environments. One such approach is a structured array of iCells constructed at more modest scales perhaps making use of new printing methods onto paper. An important requirement of such a surface is the need for a fast, reliable method to determine iCell operation, performance and code integrity. This paper describes a method to create long (>=32 bit) stable, robust metrics using a profiling technique that represents the current operational state of an iCell and thus enabling the quick exchange of diagnostics between iCells along with data traffic. This paper looks at how stable diagnostic metrics and in particular a metric of code integrity can be created even when external events affect program flow within the iCell. Key requirements in the development of this system were fast acquisition of diagnostic variables, minimal affect on normal operation and the possibility of a hardware implementation which could be completely non intrusive in operation. The described method can create several types of metrics, allowing quick determination of for example, code validation, abnormal operation and unusual behavior.","PeriodicalId":353156,"journal":{"name":"2013 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124641298","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}