Home Entertainment: At the intersection of Smart Homes & Ambient Entertainment
Max Mühlhäuser · 2006
New technology trends of the ubiquitous computing era foster substantial changes in all application domains. With respect to home entertainment (HE), the most important change is not what new hardand software can provide inside this domain but across hyperdomains to which HE will belong. We emphasize the two most important such hyperdomains, namely smart homes and ambient entertainment. For HE research, it is crucial to understand and participate in these domains, as opposed to continuing to consider HE a selfcontained domain. The following article revises the technological developments and discusses the two hyperdomains.