Evert van Loenen & Kris Luyten 
Ambient Intelligence [PDF ebook] 
Third International Joint Conference, AmI 2012, Pisa, Italy, November 13-15, 2012, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the third International Joint Conference an Ambient Intelligence, Am I 2012, held in Pisa, Italy, in November 2012. The 18 revised full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 (full papers) respectively 14 (short papers) submissions. From a scientific point of view, the papers make a multidisciplinary approach covering fields like computer science, human computer interaction, electrical engineering, industrial design, behavioral sciences, aimed at enriching physical environments with a network of distributed devices, such as sensors, actuators, and computational resources, in order to support users in their everyday activities. From a technological perspective the volume represents the convergence of recent achievements in ubiquitous and communication technologies, pervasive computing, intelligent user interfaces and artificial intelligence.