Managing Interactions in Smart Environments

Smart Environments: Some Challenges for the Computing Community.- Ten Dimensions of Ubiquitous Computing.- Interaction and Control.- Recognition of Multi-Person Action.- Tracking Fingers and Hands with a Rigid Contour Model in an Augmented Reality.- Combining Audio and Video in Perceptive Spaces.- A Tourist-Centric Mechanism for Interacting with the Environment.- A Context Sensitive Natural Language Modality for an Intelligent Room.- Ambient Telepresence: Colleague Awareness in Smart Environments.- Intelligent Environments.- Intelligent Kinetic Systems in Architecture.- SmartOffice: An Intelligent and Interactive Environment.- A Context-Based Infrastructure for Smart Environments.- Robotics.- Two Aspects of Multiple Mobile Robots: A Parallel Architecture and an Autonomous Navigation Strategy.- Reality and Virtual Reality in Mobile Robotics.- An Integrated System for Managing Intelligent Buildings.- Programming Support.- Real + Virtual = Clever: Thoughts on Programming Smart Environments.- A Ubiquitous Computing Communication and Management Architecture.- Meeting the Computational Needs of Intelligent Environments: The Metaglue Environment.- Learning and Interpretation.- Learning Spatial Event Models from Multiple-Camera Perspectives in an Intelligent Room.- Designing for Local Interaction.- The SCD Architecture and its Use in the Design of Story-Driven Interactive Spaces.