Ambient Intelligence: A New Computing Paradigm and a Vision of a Next Wave in ICT

Abstract

The aim of this chapter is to give insights into the origin and context of the AmI vision; to shed light on the customary assumptions behind the dominant vision of AmI, underlying many of its envisioned scenarios, and provide an account on its current status; to outline and describe a generic typology for AmI; to provide an overview on technological factors behind AmI and the many, diverse research topics and areas associated with AmI; to introduce and describe human-directed sciences as well as artificial intelligence and their relationships and contributions to AmI; and to discuss key paradigmatic, non-paradigmatic, pre-paradigmatic, and post-paradigmatic dimensions of AmI. Moreover, this chapter intends to provide essential underpinning conceptual tools for exploring the subject of AmI further in the remaining chapters.