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Preface to the 3rd International Workshop
on Legal Issues in Intelligent Environments
(LIIE’19)
Pedro Miguel FREITAS a
, Ugo PAGALLO b
and Massimo DURANTE b
a Universidade CatĂłlica Portuguesa, Portugal
b University of Torino, Italy
Intelligent environments are without a doubt a great feat of technology, one of many
that characterize the society of information and technology we now experience. Despite
bringing recognizable advantages to the fulfillment of human needs by adapting the
ecosystem around human intentionalities and activities, intelligent environments do
bring about difficult challenges to the creation of normative frameworks that regulate
their usage. Drafting and applying legal norms that are suitable to ever-evolving
technologies means that, on one hand, not only legal practitioners, legislators and
scholars must be prepared to closely monitor technological advances to adequately
prepare and apply suitable legal norms, and, on the other hand, do so in a pace that is
traditionally not common in law. This workshop is intended to create a forum of
discussion between those who share a common interest in this area of intersection
between technology (intelligent environments) and law.
The creation of intelligent environments is without a doubt a great feat of technology,
one of many that characterize the society of information and technology we now live in.
They bring recognizable advantages to the fulfillment of human needs by adapting the
ecosystem around human intentionalities and activities. They create a seamless
convergence between technology and the physical world. Their presence is increasingly
ubiquitous and has changed how we perceive and interact with the environment around
us.
Interestingly enough, the better the intelligent environments are thought out and
implemented the more invisible and omnipresent they are. One of the main selling points
of intelligent environments is the enhancement of everyday environments through
awareness and interaction capabilities that are user-friendly and purposely unobtrusive
and invisible. In our view, the potential of an intelligent environment is only grasped
when it molds itself to fit the need of the user. It is therefore an instrument and not an
end in itself.
The pace with which intelligence is brought to the environment is intertwined with
the development of technical breakthroughs in an interdisciplinary field where
knowledge is drawn from areas such as microelectronics or communication technologies.
Law, and its well-recognized lassitude, has struggled with hastiness of technological
developments. Intelligent environments do bring about difficult challenges to the
formulation of normative frameworks that regulate their usage. Drafting and applying
legal norms that are suitable to ever-evolving technologies means that, on one hand, not
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Intelligent Environments 2019
Workshop Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
- Title
- Intelligent Environments 2019
- Subtitle
- Workshop Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
- Authors
- Andrés Muñoz
- Sofia Ouhbi
- Wolfgang Minker
- Loubna Echabbi
- Miguel Navarro-CĂa
- Publisher
- IOS Press BV
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- German
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-1-61499-983-6
- Size
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Pages
- 416
- Category
- Tagungsbände