@inproceedings{4480,
  abstract     = {{Traditionally, Ambient Assisted Living applications focus on health-related services, like the detection of emergency situations, long-term treatment of chronic diseases, or the prevention and early-detection of illnesses. Over the last years, more and more projects started to extend these classical healthcare scenarios by designing applications that explicitly aim at increasing well-being and social inclusion for elderly users. With the transition away from purely medical services towards integrated homecare environments, holistic design concepts and evaluation approaches will become necessary. This paper takes a detailed look at state-of-the-art applications in this field and illustrates emerging challenges for the design and development of future homecare systems.}},
  author       = {{Röcker, Carsten and Ziefle, Martina and Holzinger, Andreas}},
  booktitle    = {{Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'11)}},
  keywords     = {{Ambient Assisted Living, Ambient Intelligence, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, Social Inclusion, Older User}},
  location     = {{Las Vegas, NV, USA}},
  pages        = {{55--59}},
  title        = {{{Social Inclusion in AAL Environments: Home Automation and Convenience Services for Elderly Users}}},
  volume       = {{1}},
  year         = {{2011}},
}

@inproceedings{4827,
  abstract     = {{This video presents the Hello.Wall artefact in a mixedmedia set-up to support spontaneous, informal encounters in two remote lounge spaces of a distributed team. The Hello.Walls are used as awareness tools to know more about the remote team’s state and at the same time as a tool to smoothen transitions to place-based video communication among the remote teams ’ members. This connecting-remote-teams scenario was tested in a livinglab evaluation for several weeks and proved to foster remote informal encounters and thereby contributed to smooth and fluent project work in our Ambient-Agoras project. Keywords Ambient display, informative art, social architecture, awareness, cross-media integration, place-based video conferencing, distributed teams, interaction zones}},
  author       = {{Prante, Thorsten and Stenzel, Richard and Röcker, Carsten and van Alphen, Daniel and Streitz, Norbert and Magerkurth, Carsten and Plewe, D. A.}},
  booktitle    = {{Video Track and Adjunct Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP’04)}},
  keywords     = {{support remote informal encounter, remote team cross-media integration, informative art, informal encounter}},
  location     = {{Nottingham, England}},
  pages        = {{7--10}},
  title        = {{{Connecting Remote Teams: Cross-Media Integration to Support Remote Informal Encounters}}},
  year         = {{2004}},
}

@inbook{4829,
  abstract     = {{In this paper, we address three major issues, look at their interaction and combination and present our results on how to arrive at solutions for these issues. The issues are: 1) supporting informal communication and atmosphere in organisations, 2) the role and potential of ambient displays in future work environments, and 3) the combination of mostly static artefacts that are integrated in the architectural environment with mobile devices carried by people. Our results can be considered as steps towards the design and realization of what we call “social architectural spaces” in the context of future work environments. These environments will be populated with a range of different smart artefacts that are designed to facilitate awareness and notification as well as informal communication. We address a range of spaces in office buildings including public spaces, e.g., in the hallway, the foyer, and the cafeteria that have not been the focus of research so far. In particular, we present two artefacts: the Hello.Wall, a wall-size large ambient display, and the ViewPort, a mobile handheld device. They are interacting with each other via wireless networks and different types of sensing technology. The artefacts and the software were developed in the EU-funded “Disappearing Computer”- project “Ambient Agoras: Dynamic Information Clouds in a Hybrid Worlds”.}},
  author       = {{Streitz, Norbert and Prante, Thorsten and Röcker, Carsten and van Alphen, Daniel and Magerkurth, Carsten and Stenzel, Richard and Plewe, D. A.}},
  booktitle    = {{Public and Situated Displays Social and Interactional Aspects of Shared Display Technologies}},
  editor       = {{O'Hara, K. and Perry, Mark  and Churchill, E. and Russell, D.}},
  isbn         = {{978-90-481-6449-3 }},
  keywords     = {{ambient displays, mobile devices, informal communication, atmosphere, social architectural space, ubiquitous computing}},
  pages        = {{387 – 409}},
  publisher    = {{Springer }},
  title        = {{{Ambient Displays and Mobile Devices for the Creation of Social Architectural Spaces: Supporting Informal Communication and Social Awareness in Organizations}}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/978-94-017-2813-3_16}},
  volume       = {{2}},
  year         = {{2003}},
}

@inproceedings{4830,
  abstract     = {{We present a ubiquitous computing environment that consists of the Hello.Wall in combination with ViewPorts. Hello.Wall is a new wall-sized ambient display [4,2] that emits information via light patterns and is considered informative art. As an integral part of the physical environment, Hello.Wall constitutes a seeding element of a social architectural space conveying awareness information and atmospheres in organizations or at specific places. The display is context-dependent by reflecting identity and distance of people passing by. Hello.Wall can "borrow" other artefacts in order to communicate more detailed information. These mobile devices are called ViewPorts. People can also further interact with the Hello.Wall using ViewPorts via integrated WaveLAN and RFID technology.}},
  author       = {{Prante, Thorsten and Röcker, Carsten and Streitz, Norbert and Stenzel, Richard and Magerkurth, Carsten and van Alphen, Daniel and Plewe, D. A.}},
  booktitle    = {{Video Track and Adjunct Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP’03)}},
  editor       = {{Ljungstrand, P. and Brotherton, J.}},
  keywords     = {{Ambient display, informative art, social architectural space, context-dependent, sensor-based  interaction, interactive  wall, interaction  design, mobile  devices, smart  artefacts, ubiquitous computing environment, calm technology}},
  location     = {{Seattle, Washington, USA,}},
  pages        = {{277--278}},
  title        = {{{Hello.Wall – Beyond Ambient Displays}}},
  year         = {{2003}},
}