First IEEE International Workshop on Smart Environments SmartE 2010: Message from the workshop chairs

Welcome to the First IEEE International Workshop on Smart Environments, SmartE. It is our goal that this workshop would serve as a forum for researchers and developers in the area of smart environments to present results and to discuss ways in which we can advance this field. The workshop focuses on the theme of smart environments, in which smart homes, smart workplaces, and other spaces with which humans interact take on the role of intelligent agents. Smart environments inherently integrate ideas, tools, and expertise from a variety of disciplines including ambient intelligence, middleware, wearable sensors, human-computer interaction, machine learning, and social computing.