The social aspect of an ambient intelligent classroom

Abstract

The escalating popularity of ambient intelligence is due to its applicability and ease to permeate every facet of our lives from entertainment and home comfort to hospitals and vehicles. The concept of having artificial intelligence to assist and simplify our daily tasks is exciting and desirable especially by persons who embrace and adopt technology and automation. School environments are however one of the least popular environments whereby ambient intelligence has not been so happily welcomed and endorsed. In this paper, we present the main issues behind such an anomaly and discuss the social connotations that an ambient intelligent classroom carries with it. We then discuss and justify how we integrate these social aspects within our ambient intelligent classroom, before closing with future work and conclusions.