@proceedings{695,
title = {Ambient ecologies and activity spheres.},
author = {Achilles Kameas},
url = {http://daissy.eap.gr/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/30.HYBRID-CITIES-2013-Ambient-Ecologies-and-Activity-Spheres-final1.pdf},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-01-01},
journal = {Hybrid City II conference},
address = {Athens, Greece},
abstract = {The vision of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) has already affected our daily life by changing the nature of almost every human activity. Already computation and networking has been embedded into devices and everyday environments, supporting the collection, processing and exchange of information, thus providing, in an increasingly intelligent way, situation and activity recognition, context representation, proactive behaviour, collaboration and resource management. Our environments have been transformed into Ambient Intelligent Environments (AIEs) populated with smart communicating objects, which are able to perceive the environment, act upon it, process and store data, manage their local state, communicate and exchange data. In this paper, we present two concepts that can assist designers and users of AIEs in adopting the new metaphors and adapting to the new requirements. Ambient Ecologies consist of smart objects, autonomous artifacts, portable devices, mobile robots, plain objects, services and people; they form the infrastructure against which user Activity Spheres can be realized. An activity sphere is deployed over an AE and uses its resources (artifacts, networks, services etc) to serve a specific goal of its owner.},
keywords = {activity modelling, ontologies, pervasive computing},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {proceedings}
}
The vision of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) has already affected our daily life by changing the nature of almost every human activity. Already computation and networking has been embedded into devices and everyday environments, supporting the collection, processing and exchange of information, thus providing, in an increasingly intelligent way, situation and activity recognition, context representation, proactive behaviour, collaboration and resource management. Our environments have been transformed into Ambient Intelligent Environments (AIEs) populated with smart communicating objects, which are able to perceive the environment, act upon it, process and store data, manage their local state, communicate and exchange data. In this paper, we present two concepts that can assist designers and users of AIEs in adopting the new metaphors and adapting to the new requirements. Ambient Ecologies consist of smart objects, autonomous artifacts, portable devices, mobile robots, plain objects, services and people; they form the infrastructure against which user Activity Spheres can be realized. An activity sphere is deployed over an AE and uses its resources (artifacts, networks, services etc) to serve a specific goal of its owner.
