Extended Camera Ready Submission deadline: 20.09.2011

Intelligent Environments have the vision of enhancing our everyday environment and interaction with its objects by sensing, computing, and communication capabilities. Major characteristics of such environments are the increasing number of intelligent devices (ubiquity), their complexity, and their integration into the background (transparency). Devices will disappear or blend into the background and will be invisible to the user.

However, because of this transparency, users fail to develop an adequate mental model for interaction with such environments. To overcome these challenges, new types of user interfaces are required that will represent intelligent environments. Such representative user interfaces create an overall system image for intelligent environments in order to help users to better understand the intelligent environment. In this sense, representative user interfaces are Ubiquitous Meta User Interfaces (Ubi-MUI) that could increase the transparency and predictability of the whole system by visualizing the environments’ internal states, perception and decision making processes, available services and devices, as well as ongoing and adoption plans. Using Ubi-MUI users could observe, analyze, understand, control, and customize the adaptive behavior and context-dependent interactions of their surrounding. In such environments, multimedia play two key roles: they support new ways of interaction that apply to multiple human senses, and they diffuse the presentation of content in the environment of the user.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together different research groups to foster the developments of highly intuitive, multimedia supported meta user interfaces that bring transparency, predictability, and control into intelligent environments.