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Overview
 The Intelligent Environments group at Microsoft Research Cambridge organized the “International Symposium on Intelligent Environments”,
at Homerton College, Cambridge, United Kingdom on 5-7 April 2006.
The symposium brought together top researchers from a variety of disciplines, including artists, philosophers, computer scientists,
designers and sociologists, to discuss and debate how intelligent environments can contribute to improving the quality of everyday life.
We define ‘Intelligent Environments’ as those that seamlessly incorporate the thoughtful and insightful use of computer technology to
improve and enrich everyday life. We wanted to promote discussions that
took a completely fresh view of the interaction between society
and technology; rethinking how computer technology should be used in the future to maximise the benefits to individuals and society.
 We received many insightful views on the significant research opportunities and challenges that we face, the effects on society
and the way we live our lives, the possibilities, the limitations, what we have achieved so far and what challenges we have failed to address.
The format of the event included referred papers, posters, demonstrations, workshops and panel discussions.
Conference Chairs
Program Committee
Programme
(Proceedings
available in electronic format here)
Tuesday 4 April
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19.30 |
Intelligent Environments Symposium - Reception
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Day 1 - Wednesday 5
April
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8:30
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Breakfast
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9.45 |
Welcome - Richard Harper - Tom Rodden (Program
Chairs) |
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10.00 |
Keynote Plenary:
"Cautious Cars and Cantankerous Kitchens:
Intelligent Automation Enters Everyday Life"
Donald A. Norman - Nielsen Norman group/Northwestern
University, US
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10.45 |
Coffee/Tea (Posters/Demos exhibition) |
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11.15 |
Session 1: Concepts in Human Computer Interaction
- "Evaluating
Intelligent Environments: challenges and
Opportunities"
Gilbert Cockton
-University of Sunderland, UK
- "Applying Bohm's
ideas in the age of intelligent environments"
Harold Thimbleby - Swansea University, UK
- "Intelligence in
Context"
Alex Taylor - Microsoft
Research, UK
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12.30 |
Lunch (Posters/Demos exhibition) |
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14.00 |
Session 2: Technological and social infrastructure for
the home
- "Socially aware
requirements for a smart home"
Scott Davidoff
- CMU, US
- "A prototype of
context awareness architecture for AmI at home"
Pablo A. Haya, et al - University of Madrid, Spain
- "Rethinking the
"Smart" home"
Laurel Swan,
et al -
Brunel University, UK
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15.30 |
Coffee/Tea (Posters/Demos exhibition) |
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16.00 |
Poster Madness Session
- Posters List
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17:00 |
Invited
Talk: "Intelligent Environments: Entertainment and Robotics"
Ryohei Nakatsu
- Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University/Nirvana
Technologies, Japan
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19:30 |
Special Dinner |
Day 2 - Thursday 6 April
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8:30 |
Breakfast |
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9.30 |
Session 3: How does the infrastructure work?
- "SPOT-IT: Going
beyond the vision loss boundaries"
Michal Tvarožek,
et al - Slovak University of Technology,
Slovakia
- "EIBlue - A
Self-contained System for EIB Device Control Using
Bluetooth"
Peter Schramm,et al - University of
Dortmund, Germany
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10.30
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Coffee/Tea (Posters/Demos exhibition)
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11.00 |
Expert Panel:
"The Cognitive Life of Things: Intelligent Tools for the Future"
Liam Bannon, Mark Rouncefield, Neville Moray, Don Norman
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12.30 |
Lunch (Posters/Demos exhibition) |
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14.00 |
Session 4: Why wear?
- "Physiological,
safety, and belonging needs: from wearable computers
to Intelligent Environments"
Sebastien Duval,
et al - NII, Japan
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"Navigation-by-Music for pedestrians: an initial
prototype and evaluation"
Matt Jones -
University of Wales, UK
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15.00
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Coffee/Tea (Posters/Demos exhibition)
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15.30 |
Keynote Plenary:
"Art & Technology New wave: Inter-Cultural Computing "
Naoko Tosa - Professor, Media Artist
Academic Center for Computing and Media StudiesKyoto University, Japan
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18.00
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Cambridge by candlelight. Walking and punting tour
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20:00 |
Dinner |
Day 3 - Friday 7 April
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8:30 |
Breakfast |
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9.30 |
Session 5: Robotics and Intelligence
- "Sharing spaces
with robots: an integrated environment for HRI"
James E.Young, Ehud Sharlin - University of Calgary - Canada
- "Exploring Robotics
to stimulate exercise using the "carrot on a stick"-allegory"
Gabriel Åberg - Umea University, Sweden
- "Talking Intelligence: a conceptual and historical analysis of speech-based interaction in smart homes"
Lynne Hamill and Richard Harper, University of Surrey and Microsoft Research, UK
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10.30 |
Session 6: The problem of design
- "Graceful
interaction In Intelligent Environments"
Mikael Wiberg
- Umea University, Sweden
- "Shaping
Intelligent Environments: the Sign of Design"
Lucia
Terrenghi - LMU University of Munich, Germany
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11.15
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Coffee/Tea (Posters/Demos exhibition)
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11.30 |
Keynote Plenary:
"Flexible Interactions with Music"
Francois Pachet - Sony CSL Paris, France
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12.30 |
Refreshment - Leaving |
Call for Papers
We invited papers that examined and
challenge the relationship between humans, society and technology in our
changing world. We were especially interested in inspiring papers in the following areas:
- Computer-augmented living
- Designing intelligent devices for everyday life
- Improving social intelligence and supporting human habits
- Modeling and managing intelligent environments
Papers were written in English and consisted of no more than 10 pages, including references, appendices, and figures. Papers included title, author names, affiliations, contact details,
abstract, a list of keywords, body, and references. Papers were submitted online via
https://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/ISIE/.
If you have any questions relating to the submission of papers please mail msriepi@microsoft.com.
For all accepted papers at least one author attended the conference and presented the ideas contained in the paper.
All the accepted papers were published in
the proceedings edited by Microsoft
Research (ISBN 1-59971-529-5)
Pre-Conference Workshop
Preceding the main symposium, the final project results of our last Call for Proposals (CfP) titled
“Create, Play and Learn”
were presented in an open workshop on the day before (4 April).
Workshop programme available here
Press Coverage
BBC Look East and Cambridge Radio covered the event. A video of the BBC footage is
available here
Important Dates
- Conference Registration Opening: 14 September 2005
- Submission deadline (papers):
20 January 2006
- Submission deadline (posters):
24 February 2006
- Notification of acceptance/rejection/revision:
26 February 2006
- Final Program Announcement: 26 February 2006
- Submission of revised accepted papers (camera ready copy):
7 March 2006
- Symposium Registration Closing 10 March 2006
Contact Details
If you have questions, please email
msriepi@microsoft.com
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