Description
Computers are becoming more and more ubiquitous, moving from the desktop into infrastructures of our everyday life. The use of mobile technology and wireless communication has become a commodity. Smart technologies and ambient intelligence are going to augment and influence the way we interact with our personal environment - the (physical) entities that we operate upon in order to achieve our daily goals. Smart appliances and instrumented environments provide electronic assistance for scenarios and situations, where computer support has not yet been available. IT-enabled artifacts are increasingly context-sensitive, cooperative and pro-active; our everyday environment is becoming alive with an unobtrusive background fabric of communicating and assisting multimedia appliances. IMC2009 is going to explore the design space of innovative approaches and technical visions for future assistive systems.
The goal of this conference is to define a road-map for assistive systems. IMC2009 will provide a forum for the discussion of the individual problem areas from an interdisciplinary viewpoint.
