2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing & Ambient Intelligence

During the last years a new interdisciplinary field of research is emerging, a field that is bound to change in a radical way the everyday life of people. This research area has been recently named as Ambience Intelligence, although its results were previously known as Smart Rooms or Intelligent Environments. The vision behind this concept is the creation of rooms where humans interact in a natural and non-invasive way with computational services that help them in their everyday tasks, both related with work and with leisure. The foundation of these works may be traced to the concept of ubiquitous computing proposed initially by Weiser in 1991, and involve results from many established areas of research, such as pervasive communications, mutimodal user interfaces, artificial vision and domotics.

Although in Spain there is a long tradition of research in each of these individual areas which are involved in the creation of intelligent environments, there is no recognised national forum to exchange specific experiences and work in Ambience Intelligence as a whole. Focusing in this direction, a first Workshop was held under the umbrella of the Spanish Conference of Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA 2003), whose natural continuation is this symposium on Ambience Intelligence.