09741 - Intelligent Environments

Main Goals

• To foster innovation through technological product design, experimental testing and prototype developing.
• To encourage students to practice their oral and writing communication skills when interacting in interdisciplinary teams.

About

Intelligent Environments, IE are spaces in which computation is seamlessly used to enhance ordinary activity. IE are both embedded and multimodal allowing people to interact with them in natural ways. Rather than making computer-interfaces for people, the idea is to build people-interfaces for computers. 1 2

Example Projects

Student projects have been focusing on three main themes: Home automation, Wearables and Ubiquitous Games.