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The different components of ambient intelligence according ISTAG. The ambient component addresses hardware technology part of the natural environment; the intelligence component defines software technology and the algorithmic component. Besides ambient intelligence as well includes platform design; software design, engineering, and integration; and experience prototyping.
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The research field of ambient media starts to spread rapidly and first applications for consumer homes are on the way. Ambient media is the logical continuation of research around media. Media has been evolving from old media (e.g. print media), to integrated presentation in one form (multimedia - or new media), to generating a synthetic world (vir...
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... Physical computation, thus "building interactive physical systems by the use of software and hardware" (Physical Computing, [18]) is becoming more and more of importance in the design of user-interfaces, and in the wider field of {ubiquitous | pervasive | ambient} media (see e.g. [12], [10], [11], [9], [13]). Within this context, we developed a tool, which is capable of recording, analyzing, and visualizing data coming from multiple sensors, called The LudoVico UX Machine. ...
The LudoVico UX Machine -- A FREELY AVAILABLE SOFTWARE FOR USABILITY TESTING. Gathering and the interpretation of usability data is a rather challenging task. We implemented a new tool for recording, archiving, and interpreting sensor data from user-experience (UX) experiments. The tool is capable of handling any type of sensor data. The current version of the tool named "The LudoVico UX Machine" is contributed as freely available tool to the UX community. It shall assist user experience designers in managing their experimental data. The current version is capable of handling medical and biofeedback data, which can be archived, analyzed, and visualized. Future implementations will include generic sensor data via a plug-in concept, and provide data-analysis capability to get deeper insights into gathered data. The tool shall contribute with a new technology to support the interaction design process across applications: smart cities, smart living, smart interaction, urban informatics, health, sustainable living, audience response, or biofeedback. The tool will be made available in mid-2016 and can be found on: http://www.artur-lugmayr.com.
... gesture based interaction (Shenoy 2015). Especially the world of ubiquitous media (or ambient media) (Lugmayr 2007; Lugmayr 2006;) enable location based services, news delegation via mobiles, personalization capabilities (Lugmayr et al. 2008;), or even more advanced context sensitive applications. Thus a visualization becomes a matter of being part of the real world. ...
The market development of cryptocurrencies illustrates an institutional change how payments can be released and received without the need of any intermediary or trusted central party to clear virtual transactions. As academia focuses mostly on Bitcoin, the increased money demand within cryptocurrencies, its linkages, the wide range of possible channels to release and receive executed payments (payment patterns) and the wide range of different underlying motivations why cryptocurrencies are demanded to release payments (payment behavior) is still uncovered. One might assume that payment patterns and payment behavior converges in the future as soon as the experimenting phase would have cooled down. However we observe that Bitcoin shows a strong, Litecoin a weak and Namecoin no weekday seasonality. By analyzing observed number of payments directly (between these cryptocurrencies) and indirectly (via the Bitcoin exchange-rate) we find no relationship. We conclude on these findings that payment patterns and payment behaviors on the basis of cryptocurrencies Bitcoin, Litecoin and Namecoin continue to diverge.
... Research in ambient media is constantly increasing and evolving. There are many visions, such as The Future is 'Ambient' [12], and many works available in the related field of 'New Media'. One of the most comprehensive works has been undertaken by Manovich in his book The Language of New Media [24]. ...
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... Users who make conscious choices about what information they reveal to whom concerning data typically found on websites like Facebook or twitter follow certain patterns (see Section 3), and it is reasonable to assume that such users will take a similar approach to revealing location data. With the spread of ubiquitous [38], pervasive [16], and ambient [27] computing, the focus on privacy within these areas 1 has also increased. However, within the emerging field of ambient assisted living (AAL), the issue of privacy has only been cursorily addressed. ...
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... [26,39] How can sensor data be interpreted and intelligently mined? [14,26,35,39] 1.2 Related work A good starting point for the exploration of ambient media, their possibilities and basic definitions can be found in [19,20,22,34]. The major input for this article where the contributions submitted to the SAME 2008 workshop. ...
The medium is the message! And the message was literacy, media democracy and music charts. Mostly one single distinguishable
medium such as TV, the Web, the radio, or books transmitted the message. Now in the age of ubiquitous and pervasive computing,
where information flows through a plethora of distributed interlinked media—what is the message ambient media will tell us?
What does semantic mean in this context? Which experiences will it open to us? What is content in the age of ambient media?
Ambient media are embedded throughout the natural environment of the consumer—in his home, in his car, in restaurants, and
on his mobile device. Predominant sample services are smart wallpapers in homes, location based services, RFID based entertainment
services for children, or intelligent homes. The goal of this article is to define semantic ambient media and discuss the
contributions to the Semantic Ambient Media Experience (SAME) workshop, which was held in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia conference in Vancouver in 2008. The results of the workshop
can be found on: www.ambientmediaassociation.org.
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Ambient intelligent systems are defined as being able to perceive their environment, being aware of the presence of people
and other agents, and respond intelligently to these agents’ needs. Today the hardware requirements for achieving these capabilities
are met. Earlier work have argued that knowledge intensive case-based reasoning is a feasible method for ambient intelligence.
In this paper that argument is supported by testing of an implementation in a hospital ward domain, which shows that despite
some issues related to the current implementation the case-based reasoner performs at an acceptable level.
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