Data sensing, information processing, and networking technologies are being fast
embedded into the very fabric of the contemporary city to enable the use of innovative …

The '15-minute city'concept is emerging as a potent urban regeneration model in post-
pandemic cities, offering new vantage points on liveability and urban health. While the …

It is a profoundly erroneous truism… that we should cultivate the habit of thinking what we
are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number …

We propose a system for detecting the active speaker in cluttered and reverberant
environments where more than one person speaks and moves. Rather than using only …

We present an architectural framework along with a set of middleware elements, facilitating
the integration of perceptual components, sensors, actuators, and context-modeling scripts …

The problem of detecting the location of an active acoustic source in an enclosure remains
subject to a series of difficulties. Algorithms operate repeatedly on small frames of data from …

We propose a system for detecting the active speaker in cluttered and reverberant
environments where more than one person speaks and moves. Rather than using only …

Context-aware ubiquitous computing environments tend to be highly distributed and
heterogeneous, while also featuring increased dynamism as elements, devices and …

Identifying people and tracking their locations is a key prerequisite to achieving context
awareness in smart spaces. Moreover, in realistic context-aware applications, these tasks …

The aim of this chapter is to give insights into the origin and context of the AmI vision; to shed
light on the customary assumptions behind the dominant vision of AmI, underlying many of …