Ambient diagnostics

  • Authors:
  • Yang Cai;Gregory Li;Teri Mick;Sai Ho Chung;Binh Pham

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University;Carnegie Mellon University;Carnegie Mellon University;Carnegie Mellon University;Queensland University of Technology, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Ambient Intelligence for Scientific Discovery
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

People can usually sense troubles in a car from noises, vibrations, or smells. An experienced driver can even tell where the problem is. We call this kind of skill ‘Ambient Diagnostics'. Ambient Diagnostics is an emerging field that is aimed at detecting abnormities from seemly disconnected ambient data that we take for granted. For example, the human body is a rich ambient data source: temperature, pulses, gestures, sound, forces, moisture, et al. Also, many electronic devices provide pervasive ambient data streams, such as mobile phones, surveillance cameras, satellite images, personal data assistants, wireless networks and so on.