25 research outputs found

    Ambient intelligence:a narrative in search of users (discussion paper)

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    The vision of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) was first developed in the late 1990s. It describes new worlds, economies and paradigms that emphasize the centrality of human experience, however, distinguished from related visions such as ubiquitous and pervasive computing. A key feature of the AmI vision are the seamless intelligent environments and gadgets, capable of anticipating people’s needs and motivations, and acting autonomously on their behalf. So what can be gleaned from exploring the conditions under which this innovation domain evolves over time and how it adapts to various criticisms and technical challenges? The AmI vision not only represents possible futures but actively creates the worlds in which AmI applications appear to be possible. Visionaries and research leaders build expectations, marshal resources and align key stakeholders. Promises and progressions toward realizing AmI have performative and generative features but the original promise of intelligence has largely failed. This outcome points to a two-sided problem. The definitional looseness of intelligence is permissive of what can be expected of the role and scope of artificial reasoning in AmI interaction paradigms, while ordinary human reasoning and knowing what people actually want and need remains persistently elusive. Grappling still with the problem of what the intelligence in Ambient Intelligence can stand for, research and development has shifted its focus toward the design of practical win-win solutions, coined synergetic prosperity

    Mobile activity recognition and fall detection system for elderly people using Ameva algorithm

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    Currently, the lifestyle of elderly people is regularly monitored in order to establish guidelines for rehabilitation processes or ensure the welfare of this segment of the population. In this sense, activity recognition is essential to detect an objective set of behaviors throughout the day. This paper describes an accurate, comfortable and efficient system, which monitors the physical activity carried out by the user. An extension to an awarded activity recognition system that participated in the EvAAL 2012 and EvAAL 2013 competitions is presented. This approach uses data retrieved from accelerometer sensors to generate discrete variables and it is tested in a non-controlled environment. In order to achieve the goal, the core of the algorithm Ameva is used to develop an innovative selection, discretization and classification technique for activity recognition. Moreover, with the purpose of reducing the cost and increasing user acceptance and usability, the entire system uses only a smartphone to recover all the information requiredMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad HERMES TIN2013-46801-C4-1-rJunta de Andalucía Simon P11-TIC-8052Junta de Andalucía M-Learning P11-TIC-712

    The Future of the Post. New Insights in the Postmodern Debate

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    This book collects the proceedings of the International conference "The Postmodern Condition: Forty Years Later" held at University of Genova on December 2019. The conference took advantage of the fortieth anniversary of the publication of "The Postmodern Condition" by Jean- François Lyotard as a “trigger” to relaunch the still actual and ongoing debate about the meaning of postmodernity, the end of postmodernism and the advent of new aesthetics, philosophy and social “structure of feelings” that have overcome (or tried to) the postmodern paradigm. The book aims at interweaving the two main faces of the problem: on the one hand, the analysis of the vitality, legacy, topicality and historicizing process of postmodernity and postmodernism; on the other, the analysis of the debate on the crisis of postmodern paradigm and of the advent of new conceptual frames, often born as a direct refusal of postmodern critical discourse and philosophy

    Mensch-Computer-Interface: Zur Geschichte und Zukunft der Computerbedienung

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    Die gegenwärtige Interface-Krise bei digitalen Medien nehmen Informatiker und Informatikhistoriker in diesem Band zum Anlass für eine Langzeitbilanz der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion. Sie legen sowohl Gesamtüberblicke der Entwicklung aus technik- und geistesgeschichtlicher Sicht vor als auch spezielle Studien zur Bedienproblematik einzelner Epochen. Dadurch entsteht ein großer Bogen von den Bedienschnittstellen der frühen Mainframe-Welt über die interaktiven PC-Interfaces bis zu den neuesten Entwicklungen des Wearable Computing und der proaktiven Ambient Intelligence. Die historisch-genetischen Analysen münden in theoretische Betrachtungen und kritische Rückblicke auf die Forschung zu Mensch-Computer-Interfaces sowie Ausblicke auf die Zukunft

    Energy autonomous systems : future trends in devices, technology, and systems

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    The rapid evolution of electronic devices since the beginning of the nanoelectronics era has brought about exceptional computational power in an ever shrinking system footprint. This has enabled among others the wealth of nomadic battery powered wireless systems (smart phones, mp3 players, GPS, …) that society currently enjoys. Emerging integration technologies enabling even smaller volumes and the associated increased functional density may bring about a new revolution in systems targeting wearable healthcare, wellness, lifestyle and industrial monitoring applications

    Service design : on the evolution of design expertise

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    Liberating Education: What From, What For?

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    Education may lead to emancipation, but it may also be precisely what one should emancipate oneself from. Even though we are the inheritors of the emancipatory potential of the Enlightenment, never before have these been under such rigorous critical scrutiny as from various intellectual traditions of the second half of the 20th century, such as postcolonial and decolonial studies, post-structuralist thought, feminist critique, posthumanism, etc. But precisely because the classic educational emancipatory ideal appears both outdated and still current, there is a great need for rethinking the idea of emancipation, along with the role and the aim of education
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