Universal Access Issues in an Ambient Intelligence Research Facility

An Ambient Intelligence Research Facility is being set up at ICSFORTH, with the goal of providing an experimentation platform for Ambient Intelligence (AmI) technologies and for studying their potential impact on users as individuals and as society. This paper discusses the opportunities that such a facility will offer towards the investigation of AmI from a Universal Access perspective, focusing in particular on issues related to Design for All.

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