INTERNET
DAPI: Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions
2013-
Held as part of the HCI International Conference
Summary: Emerging "intelligent" or "smart" environments react in an attentive,
adaptive, and active (sometimes proactive) way to the presence and activities
of humans and objects in order to provide intelligent/smart services to the
inhabitants of these environments. Related technologies integrate sensing
capabilities, processing power, reasoning mechanisms, networking facilities,
applications and services, digital content, and actuating capabilities
distributed in the surrounding environment. While a wide variety of different
technologies is involved, the underlying goal is to either entirely hide their
presence from users or to smoothly integrate within the surrounding context as
enhanced environment artifacts rather than as technological gadgets. This
way, the computing-oriented connotation of technology essentially fades-out or
even disappears in the environment, providing seamless and unobtrusive
interaction paradigms. Therefore, people and their social situation, ranging
from individuals to groups, be them work groups, families or friends and
their corresponding environments (office buildings, homes, public spaces, etc)
are at the centre of the design considerations. The conference objective is to
provide an international forum for the dissemination and exchange of
scientific information on theoretical, generic, and applied issues of
Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interaction in novel technological
environments.
