Intelligent agile agents: active enablers for ambient intellgence

Abstract

Ambient Intelligence and Scientific Discovery Workshop at CHI 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vienna, Austria, April 24 - 29, 2004This paper advocates the use of mobile intentional agents as a key enabler in the delivery of ambient intelligence. Ambient computing as an ideal demands levels of functional attainment that have hithertofar not been realised. Ambient applications demand that the computing application be subsumed into the everyday context in an unobtrusive manner with interaction modalities such that they are natural, simple and appropriate to both the individual user and their associated context.kpw19/7/1