Ambient Intelligence

A man wearing a bluetooth earset is crouched next to an internal combustion engine.

Invisible Media by David Merrill and Pattie Maes of the MIT Media Lab. (Image by Prof. Patricia Maes.)

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MIT Course Number

MAS.961

As Taught In

Spring 2005

Level

Graduate

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Course Description

Course Features

Course Description

This course will provide an overview of a new vision for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in which people are surrounded by intelligent and intuitive interfaces embedded in the everyday objects around them. It will focus on understanding enabling technologies and studying applications and experiments, and, to a lesser extent, it will address the socio-cultural impact. Students will read and discuss the most relevant articles in related areas: smart environments, smart networked objects, augmented and mixed realities, ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, tangible computing, intelligent interfaces and wearable computing. Finally, they will be asked to come up with new ideas and start innovative projects in this area.

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Patricia Maes. MAS.961 Ambient Intelligence. Spring 2005. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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