Challenges for Virtual Humans in Human Computing.

The vision of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) presumes a plethora of embedded services and devices that all endeavor to support humans in their daily activities as unobtrusively as possible. Hardware gets distributed throughout the environment, occupying even the fabric of our clothing. The environment is equipped with a diversity of sensors, the information of which can be accessed from all over the AmI network. Individual services are distributed over hardware, share sensors with other services and are generally detached from the traditional singleaccess- point computer (see also the paper of Pantic et al. in this volume [51]). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]