Introducing Intelligent Environments, Agents and Autonomy to Users

There is a long-standing debate over the role that intelligent agents should play and how much autonomy they should be given in user-centric systems such as intelligent environments and other pervasive computing technologies. A recent online survey has been conducted to assess people's opinions of the use of autonomy in intelligent environments. In order to conduct this survey, an animated video was created to explain the necessary concepts of intelligent environments to the survey participants. This short paper gives an overview of the online survey and discusses the explanation video.

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