Our everyday environments are gradually becoming intelligent, facilitated both by
technological development and user activities. Although large-scale intelligent environments …

Ambient Intelligence applications based on information and communication technology
embedded in our environment and everyday objects raise several ethical issues. Even if …

Chronic health problems related to mental wellbeing are rapidly growing, calling for novel
solutions focusing on individual as a psychophysiological being. We describe a novel …

Purpose–This paper aims to present an overview of the various ethical, societal and critical
issues that micro-and nanotechnology-based small, energy self-sufficient sensor systems …

To develop technology-based service solutions for supporting the independent living of
elderly citizens, we conducted a user assessment study. Six different service scenarios were …

Within this work the system of the Living Place Hamburg is considered as a system of
ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence by providing a formal model of the internal …

Abstract Information and communication technologies (ICT) provide means for developing
new tools for preventing falls. To enhance adherence to fall prevention interventions, end …

Abstract Scenario-Based Design has been implemented widely to the concept and product
development processes. Especially in the development of Information and Communication …

This paper describes some possible use-case scenarios of mobile-phone-centric ambient
intelligence services which are predicted to be soon a seamless part of our lives. Ambient …

In this paper we have presented the involved principles, trends, future directions of ambient
intelligence. in the first section we have elucidated concept of ambient intelligence with the …