Mary Lou Maher

Free play in contemplative ambient intelligence

This paper introduces free play, a meaning making activity, as a desideratum of social and contemplative ambient intelligence. A contemplative AmI is not focused on easing routine human activities, but through free play and other mechanisms, will encourage humans to engage with each other and the AmI on thinking about and acting on societal issues over long time scales. These ideas are illustrated by the design of an interactive, intelligent art installation about adaptation to climate change. This approach to AmI extends the connotations of AmI along social, spatial, and temporal dimensions.

Ambient intelligence: second international joint conference, AmI 2011, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 16-18 2011: proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Joint Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2011, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in November 2011. The 58 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as haptic interfaces, smart sensing, smart environments, novel interaction technologies, affecting human behaviour, privacy and trust, landscape and ambient assisted living.

Reports of the AAAI 2011 Spring Symposia

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence presented the 2011 Spring Symposium Series Monday through Wednesday, March 21-23, 2011, at Stanford University. This report summarizes the eight symposia.