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With the theme Ambient Intelligence (AmI) industry, designers and scientists explore a vision of future daily life — a vision of humans being accompanied and surrounded by computerised devices, intelligent interfaces, wireless networking technology and software agents. Computing resources and computing services will be present everywhere and interconnected anytime. The focus of AmI is to bring to life the everyday objects and tools of our daily environment. The purposes of this technology are circumambient ways of monitoring the actions of humans and the changes in their environment. Sensors of many types and physical actors will be used to react and pre-act in a way that is articulated as desirable and pleasant. AmI as a ‘crossover approach’ is strongly related to several other Computer Science topics (Punie 2003: 6; Schmidt 2004; Oulasvirta 2004). This technology is not new. A lot of ambient technology is already available, like monitoring analogue physical processes, describing them with digital data and analysing these data using knowledge-based interpretation models. New is that the public and the private environment of humans is permeated by an overwhelming number of autonomous active devices. This will cause the inevitability of the employment of artificial intelligent agents to automate routine decisions and to provide against stupefying read and write collisions15 of the artificial devices. There is no guarantee that these artificial agents can cooperate appropriately and safely. This penetration process has already started with remote recognition systems for facial expression and body tracking (Turk 2004).
Intelligent agents pick up and send data to and from other agents in their environment (read and write). These data can get mixed up; agents receive not intended data or send data to not intended other agents. In the future anti-collision facilities are needed e.g. in the agents themselves or in separate agents meant to protect the individual or the community from unintended infiltrations.
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Crutzen, C.K.M. (2007). Ambient Intelligence, between Heaven and Hell. A Transformative Critical Room?. In: Zorn, I., Maass, S., Rommes, E., Schirmer, C., Schelhowe, H. (eds) Gender Designs IT. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90295-1_4
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