Smart Products: Building Blocks of Ambient Intelligence

he first edition of AmI-Blocks’07 workshop took place on 7 th of November 2007 in Darmstadt, in conjunction with the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence (AmI-07). The focus of the workshop was to bring together experts of diverse areas such as Ubiquitous Computing, Product Engineering, Cognitive Science, Human Computer Interaction, Economics, and Artificial Intelligence, with the specific goal of helping shape a vision of creating living and working environments out of Smart Products. The topic chosen to focus the workshop’s discussions was: “Smart Products: Building Blocks of Ambient Intelligence”. This focus reflects a growing trend of research that understands the creation of future technology-assisted living and working spaces, as the result of the collaborations between devices and services gradually being deployed, one product at a time