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The Ambient Intelligence Team consists of the following Members:
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) refers to electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people . In an ambient intelligence world, devices work in concert to support people in carrying out their everyday life activities, tasks and rituals in easy, natural way using information and intelligence that is hidden in the network connecting these devices.
The human centered approach characterises a new direction in computing technology to augment consciousness. As these devices grow smaller, more connected and more integrated into our environment, the technology disappears into our surroundings until only the user interface remains perceivable by users.
In order for AmI to become a reality a number of key technologies are required such as unobtrusive hardware, seamless mobile/fixed communication and computing infrastructure, dynamic and massively distributed device networks, which are easy to control and program, human-centric computer interfaces and dependable secure systems and devices.
The AmI group are focussing on the location determination aspect in order to facilitate the arrival of location aware services....
Mobile devices are associated with network technologies that have the potential to provide user location and context cues to the services they offer. Location data alone has little value, but when it is used to expand the variety of mobile applications through timely, personalised content reactive to dynamic environments, it offers great return for very little additional bandwidth use. The potential exists for the education community to deploy location-aware systems in a number of contexts to the direct benefit of their users, both in allowing mobile nodes to determine their own position and in allowing the network operator to monitor the position of nodes.
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