We are living in a world full of innovations for the elderly and people with s- cial needs to
use smart assistive technologies and smart homes to more easily perform activities of daily
living continue social participation engage in ent- tainment and leisure activities and to
enjoy living independently. These in- vations are inspired by new technologies leveraging all
aspects of ambient and pervasive intelligence with related theories technologies methods
applications and services on ubiquitous pervasive AmI universal mobile embedded we- able
augmented invisible hidden context-aware calm amorphous sentient proactive post PC
everyday autonomic computing from engineering business and organizationalperspectives. In the
?eld of smart homes and health telem- ics signi?cant research is underway to enable ageing and
disabled people to use smart assistive technologies and smart homes to foster independent
living and to o?er them an enhanced quality of life. A smart home is a vision of the future
where computers and computing - vices will be available naturally and unobtrusively anywhere
anytime and by di?erent means in our daily living working learning business and infota-
ment environments. Such a visionopens tremendous opportunities for numerous novel services
applications that are more immersive more intelligent and more interactive in both real and
cyber spaces.
