Ambient Intelligence: First European Symposium, EUSAI 2003, Veldhoven, The Netherlands, November 3.-4, 2003, Proceedings [Paperback]

No symposium of this size can be organized without the help of many dedicated persons. EUSAI was organized by Philips Research in close cooperation with the ITEA Ambience project. Many people were involved in this joint effort and we are greatly indebted to them for their valuable contribution to the organization of EUSAI. Special thanks in this respect go to Ad de Beer for taking care of the local arrangements and to Maurice Groten for guaranteeing the financial budget. EUSAI has succeeded in bringing together a wealth of information on the research progress in ambient intelligence, and we are confident that these proceedings will contribute to the realization of the truly great concept that ambient intelligence provides. Eindhoven, Emile Aarts August 2003 Rene Collier Evert van Loenen Boris de Ruyter Le nouveau po?me ?lectronique On the occasion of the 1958 Worlds Fair in Brussels, Le Corbusier designed for the Philips company a pavilion (see photograph below) that was later referred to as the neglected building by Le Corbusier, since it was dismantled after the fair. In his visually compelling book, Treib [1996] brought this object back to life, and positioned it as an ephemeral structure that exhibited a landmark multimedia production. The nearly two million visitors to the pavilion were exposed to a media show rather than to the typical display of consumer products.Track 1. Ubiquitous Computing.- Find a Meeting.- Some Issues on Presentations in Intelligent Environments.- A Reactive QoS Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks.- User Mobility Model in an Active Office.- Multimodal Mobile Robot Control Using Speech Application Language Tags.- Energy Consumption Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.- Ubiquitous Attentiveness  Enabling Context-Aware Mobile Applications and Services.- Real Time Application Support in an Ambient Network Using Intelligent Mobile Robots.- Track 2. Context Awareness.- Context Driven Observation of Human Activity.- Interacting in Desktop andlƒ#