27TOWARDS A SMART LIVING ENVIRONMENT Happy Healthy Living with Ambient Intelligence and TechnologyELLEN YI-LuEN DO Georgia Institute of Technology, USAkeywords: ambient intelligence, ubiquitous computing, happy healthy smart living1. ACHIEVING WELLNESS THROUGH TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION?AchievingwellnessisaGrandChallenge.Weareconcernedaboutthequalityoflifeforourselvesandforoursociety.Ashumanbeingswewanttodevelopandcultivate our untapped potential for a happy, healthy, creative and fulfilling life. Technological innovation may be just the key to unlock human potential for the HolyGrailofwellness.Wellnesshasmultipledimensions:physical,emotional,occupational,social,intellectualandspiritual(Hettler1976).Belowwebrieflydescribe interesting design computing projects employing technological inno-vationstocontributetowardasmartlivingenvironmentforwellness.2. CREATIVE DESIGN COMPUTING FOR HEALTH, AWARENESS & ENTERTAINMENTLivingwellathomeisaconcernforpeopleofallages.Childrenwithasthmaenjoy playing outdoors as much as others. With the Pervasive Remote Asthma Monitoring (Chhabra 2007) added to a cell phone or a cute animal pendant wornontheirnecks,children’scoughingandwheezingcanberecorded,pro-cessedthroughdigitalsignalprocessing,sentthroughthenetworkandincor-porated into patients’ electronic medical records and alert caregivers remotely (Figure1left).T. Tidafi and T. Dorta (eds) Joining Languages, Cultures and Visions: CAADFutures 2009 © Pum, 200928figure 1. left: pervasive asthma monitoring for children. right: patient interactive communication & learning systemBeing sick is no fun. While confined in a hospital bed, a patient may feel overwhelmedandalone.ThePatientInteractiveCommunicationandLearningSystem (PILS) simplifies the patient’s hospital communication experience by combining communication tools into one easy-to-use system mounted on the patient bed (Figure 1 right) to connect to nurse’s video phone, family video conferencing, educational video, entertainment media, and vital signs infor-mation (Fischer 2006).figure 2. left: energy puppet. right: piano touch Orconsiderenergyawareness–TheEnergyPuppet(Abdelmohsen2008)isanambientdisplaydevicethatprovidesperipheralawarenessofenergyconsumptionforindividualhomeappliances.Thepuppetwouldraiseits“arms”invictorytodisplaynormalconsumptionrate(Figure2left),orits“eyes”wouldchangecolortoredand“roar”towarnthehomeownerswhenthespecificappliance reaches high consumption rates. Too busy and can’t find time to practice piano? The Piano Touch (Huang 2007)isaglovewithvibrationelectronicsforpassivelearningofmusicanytimeanywhere.Italsoshowspotentialforengaging,pervasivehandrehabilitationused alone or playing on a lighted keyboard (Figure 2 right).E. Y.-L. DO29REFERENCESAbdelmohsen,SM,DoEYL(2008)“EnergyPuppet:AnAmbientAwarenessInterfaceforHome Energy Consumption,” in 7th International Workshop on Social Intelligence Design, San Juan, Puerto Rico, http://cdr.uprrp.edu/SID2008/default.htmChhabra, J., Asmi, A., Ragavan, L, (2007). Pervasive Asthma Monitoring, Pediatric Center of theFuture,taughtbyDo,Zimring,Cowan,et.alhttp://www.hsi.gatech.edu/pedcenterFischer, T., Davis, T, Vargas, C. (2006) Patient Interactive Communication and Learning System, PatientRoomoftheFuture,taughtbyDo,Zimring,Cowan,Lamb,et.al.Hettler,Bill,(1976)SixDimensionsofWellness,NationalWellnessInstitute(www.nwi.org),Huang, Kevin, Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Thad Starner, (2008) “PianoTouch: A Wearable Haptic Piano Instruction System For Passive Learning of Piano Skills,” 12th IEEE International SymposiumonWearableComputers,http://www.iswc.net/,pp41-44,Pittsburgh,PATOWARDS A SMART LIVING