UCAmI 2013 - 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2013)

The Ubiquitous Computing (UC) idea envisioned by Weiser in 1991, has recently evolved to a more general paradigm known as Ambient Intelligence (AmI). Ambient Intelligence then represents a new generation of user-centred computing environments aiming to find new ways to obtain a better integration of the information technology in everyday life devices and activities.
AmI environments are integrated by several autonomous computational devices of modern life ranging from consumer electronics to mobile phones. Ideally, people in an AmI environment will not notice these devices, but they will benefit from the services they provide them. Such devices are aware of the people present in those environments by reacting to their gestures, actions and context. Recently the interest in Ambient Intelligence Environments has grown considerably due to new challenges posed by society, demanding highly innovative services such as vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET), Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), e-Health, Internet of Things and Home Automation among others.
Topics
Human Interaction in Ambient Intelligence
Human-Centric Interfaces for AmI environments (multi-modal, touch computing, NFC, 2D codes)
Context- and Location-aware Frameworks and Sensing (context modelling, user-adaptability, automatic-generation of user interfaces, sentient computing, knowledge-based approach, affective and social interfaces, etc.)
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality
Smart-object based interaction, persuasive computing and Tangible Interactions.
Ubiquitous and Ambient Displays Environments, Wall Displays, Urban Displays, Multi-screen Environments.
Detection and Support for collaboration, User Intentions and Activity Recognition, Analysis of Psychological User States
Digital TV-based interfaces
ICT instrumentation and Middleware support for Smart Environments and Objects
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)
RFID and 2-D codes for real-world labelling
Smart Sensors
Wearable Computing
Custom made internet-connected objects
Semantic Middleware Infrastructure (Semantic Web, OSGi, DLNA, DPWS, Home automation standards)
Mining techniques to mobile and sensor data
Contextualized analysis of social and information networks
Adding intelligence for Environment Adaptation
Knowledge Representation and Management for user and environment modelling and understanding (Ontologies, Semantic Web, Logic, Expert Systems Multi-agents)
Autonomic Computing, Responsive and Proactive Systems and Dynamic Reconfiguration
Ontologies for user and environment modelling and understanding
Learning, Reasoning and Adaptation Techniques over context models. Collaborative Smart objects
Linked Open Data applied to Smart Environments
Key application domains for Ambient Intelligence
Internet of Things and Social Web of Things
Social Robotics
Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)