Handbook of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments: A State of the Art.- Sensor, Vision and Networks.- A Survey of Distributed Computer Vision Algorithms.- Video-Based People Tracking.- Locomotion Activities in Smart Environments.- Tracking in Urban Environments Using Sensor Networks Based on Audio-Video Fusion.- Multi-Camera Vision for Surveillance.- Mobile and Pervasive Computing.- Collaboration Support for Mobile Users in Ubiquitous Environments.- Pervasive Computing Middleware.- Case Study of Middleware Infrastructure for Ambient Intelligence Environments.- Collaborative Context Recognition for Mobile Devices.- Security Issues in Ubiquitous Computing*.- Pervasive Systems in Health Care.- Human-centered Interfaces.- Human-centered Computing.- End-user Customisation of Intelligent Environments.- Intelligent Interfaces to Empower People with Disabilities.- Visual Attention, Speaking Activity, and Group Conversational Analysis in Multi-Sensor Environments.- Using Multi-modal Sensing for Human Activity Modeling in the Real World.- Recognizing Facial Expressions Automatically from Video.- Sharing Content and Experiences in Smart Environments.- User Interfaces and HCI for Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments.- Multimodal Dialogue for Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments.- Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.- Smart Monitoring for Physical Infrastructures.- Spatio-Temporal Reasoning and Context Awareness.- From Autonomous Robots to Artificial Ecosystems.- Behavior Modeling for Detection, Identification, Prediction, and Reaction (DIPR) in AI Systems Solutions.- Multi-Agents.- Multi-Agent Social Simulation.- Multi-Agent Strategic Modeling in a Specific Environment.- Learning Activity Models for Multiple Agents in a Smart Space.- Mobile Agents.- Applications.- AmbientHuman-to-Human Communication.- Smart Environments for Occupancy Sensing and Services.- Smart Offices and Intelligent Decision Rooms.- Smart Classroom: Bringing Pervasive Computing into Distance Learning.- Ambient Intelligence in the City Overview and New Perspectives.- The Advancement of World Digital Cities.- Societal Implications and Impact.- Human Factors Consideration for the Design of Collaborative Machine Assistants.- Privacy Sensitive Surveillance for Assisted Living – A Smart Camera Approach.- Data Mining for User Modeling and Personalization in Ubiquitous Spaces.- Experience Research: a Methodology for Developing Human-centered Interfaces.- Projects.- Computers in the Human Interaction Loop.- Eye-based Direct Interaction for Environmental Control in Heterogeneous Smart Environments.- Middleware Architecture for Ambient Intelligence in the Networked Home.- The PERSONA Service Platform for AAL Spaces.- ALADIN - a Magic Lamp for the Elderly?.- Japanese Ubiquotous Network Project: Ubila.- Ubiquitous Korea Project.- Erratum.