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...INTRODUCTION Les systèmes ambiants sont au coeur de nombreux travaux de recherche récents et leurs domaines d’application s’étendent de la domotique au tourisme en passant par la santé ou le commerce =-=[5]-=-. Ces systèmes ont pour but de transformer l’environnement proche de l’utilisateur en un environnement Ubimob ’12 Anglet, France intelligent et interactif qui l’informe, le guide, veille à sa santé, o...

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...developed countries (United Nations 2007; United Nations 2008; PopulationsReference Bureau 2012) via technological means (Rigby 2007, p.352; British MedicalsAssociation 2008; OECD 2010; Remmers 2010; =-=Sadri 2011-=-).1sSystems are being developed for asrange of demographics (see: Chapter 2), with many targeting the elderly and chronically ill.sPHM has the potential to facilitate ethically problematic medical int...

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...ot change the size of this text box. Each submission will be assigned a unique DOI string to be included here. Stefano Valtolina Università degli Studi di Milano Via Comelico, 39/41 20135 Milan, Italy valtolina@di.unimi.it Barbara Rita Barricelli Università degli Studi di Milano Via Comelico, 39/41 20135 Milan, Italy barricelli@di.unimi.it 42 Introduction Nowadays we are witnesses of the proliferations of different sensor devices able to produce several types of data that can be profitable used for advising people on how to improve their lifestyle, health, and wellness. The survey reported in [1] underlines that many tools in the Internet of Things (IoT) field, mainly focus on hardware devices (sensors and actuators) and on artificial intelligence techniques that may help to add sophisticated capabilities to the processing of information provided by hardware devices. A current challenge in this domain concerns the need to conceive it as a socio-technical system, which encompasses not only a variety of hardware and software components, such as sensors, actuators, mobile apps and Web applications, but also people that are bound together by social ties and personal relations and that are...

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...m could support parents in better interpreting their child’s social interaction signals and in experiencing more attention from their child. An overview of the system is provided in Fig. 1. The vision of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) and Smart Environments involves, in the environment emAU TH OR C OP Y K. Frederiks et al. / Sense – a biofeedback system to support the interaction between parents and their child 451 bedded sensitive, responsive and adaptive systems that operate collectively and use their context in interactive applications to adapt applications and systems to the current situation [1,14,32,33]. In this paper, a concept biofeedback system, called Sense, is proposed to stimulate the interaction and bonding process between parents and their child with PWS. Sense measures the child’s reaction to his or her environment and informs the parents about their child’s reaction. In this way the system allows parents to adapt to their context, namely the interaction with their child. The system consists of a galvanic skin response (GSR) sensor that measures the activation of the sympathetic nervous system through the change of conductance over skin of the child’s foot or hand. The signal of thi...

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...roduction Ambient Intelligence (AmI) systems are found in a broad number of domains. Typically, they target smart homes, assisted living, health care systems, shops and business or leisure activities =-=[1]-=-. However, they may also be found in other domains with tighter timing, safety, security or robustness requirements such as transportation systems [2], manufacturing [3] or video security systems [4]....

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...or Cook and Das [9], smart environments are able to acquire and apply “knowledge” about the environment and its inhabitants in order to improve the inhabitants’ experience with the environment. Sadri =-=[41]-=- includes to the description of this environment the concepts “interconnection”, “adaptation”, “dynamism”, “intelligence”, and “integration”. In this view, the traditional means of a system’s input an...

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...ount the total data tra c for all of 2008. In 2011, 1.08 billion of mobile phone users have a Smartphone and in the near future they will be surrounded by many sensors/actuators. In his survey, Sadri =-=[18]-=- de nes AmI as the vision of a future in which the environments support the people inhabiting them. For example, instead of using mice, screens and keyboards, we may communicate directly with our clot...

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...ng of occupants, promoting a comfortable environment while ensuring an efficient use of building resources. The ideas described for SBs fall into a wider concept defined as Ambient Intelligence (AmI) =-=[5]-=-, a term widely used to signify a vision in which environments support the people who inhabit them by incorporating data acquisition, computation, intelligence and behavior to everyday objects in an i...