Workplan

In order to meaningfully bridge the conceptual distance between "people interacting with ambient systems" and the "design of the building blocks of ambient systems", the research effort will span the entire spectrum ranging from scenarios of use, requirements elucidation and through to architectural design. Scenario work is planned in the context of fitness, school, work and leisure, which should provide realistic contexts of use and interaction, inspired by observations of people and their activities. Work on the development of architectures is done in conjunction with building research prototypes where the architecture is evaluated against the scenarios applied in a diversity of real-world settings.

The key research issues will be addressed in the following work packages:

1. Embedded device development
2. Networking technologies and protocols
3. Communities and contexts
4. Interfaces and interactions
5. Settings
6. System architecture, foundations and methods