1st Worshop on HyperRealistic Intelligent Environments 2014 (HyperRealitIE'14)

Hyperreality tries to achieve a vision in which virtuality and reality are seamlessly blended together as if they were one, with no distinction on where one ends and the other begins; blending physical reality with virtual reality and human intelligence with artificial intelligence[1]. Technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality are used every day as standalone applications in areas such as computer gaming and mobile devices. Companies such as Google, Nokia and Microsoft are investing and developing technology and interfaces to connect virtual and real worlds. This creates huge opportunities for integration and research with intelligent environments. Intelligent Environments are physical spaces where context-aware technology is embedded in a seamless way to create interactive spaces, bridging computation with the physical world. This workshop focuses on innovation ideas for future ‘Next Generation’ Intelligent Environments, where virtual applications and data will allow users to further integrate themselves within augmented physical spaces. By exploring this area we aim to encourage further research and advances in Intelligent Environments by bringing together researchers and industry. [1] “Hyperreality : Paradigm for the third millennium”. Tiffin, John; Nobuyoshi Terashima (2005).