The Responsive Environment

Résumé du livre

"This report describes the Responsive Environment Project, an experimental configuration of intelligent offices being built at Xerox PARC. The system gives users a new level of control over their office environments, and demonstrates novel uses of ubiquitous computing for office climate control and energy management. As background, we describe the results of a detailed, one-day occupancy and energy audit. The audit suggests that substantial energy savings are possible with appropriate intelligent control of individual offices appliances. The basic hardware and software are described in detail, as are several software applications. Rational used in key design decisions are discussed, with particular emphasis on issues that are of general significance to the design of ubicomp systems. We conclude by describing our efforts to address privacy concerns in relation to the gathering of occupancy data"--Abstract.