Ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence: New challenges for computing
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TL;DR
This special issue is aimed to join research efforts in these three technologies, although emphasis will be placed on the first one, which emerges directly from the seminal vision of Mark Weiser in the Xerox Lab.
Abstract
The IST Advisory Group (ISTAG) of the European Union had a vision of "Ambient Intelligence" (AmI) in 1999. It refers to "an exciting new paradigm of information technology, in which people are empowered through a digital environment that is aware of their presence and context sensitive, adaptive and responsive to their needs, habits, gestures and emotions". In AmI the technology will become invisible, embedded, present whenever we need it, enabled by simple interactions, attuned to all our senses and adaptive to users and contexts (Scenarios for Ambient Intelligence). AmI proposes a shift in computing from the traditional computer to a whole set of devices placed around us providing users with an intelligent background.