Cyber assist project for situated human support
Hideyuki Nakashima · 2002
This paper introduces some of the projects conducted at the Advanced Institute of Science in Japan strongly related to the field of distributed multimedia systems. Among several national strategies of AIST, a main target is to create technologies that contribute to make society keep up with this information age so that people will feel safe to live. At the same time, we are cultivating a new industrial field. Specifically, we research and develop a human-centered information support system that is safe and easy to use for anyone. To combine device design, information sensor networks and intellectual agents organically, and to review them thoroughly, including it’s information communication infrastructure. Our aim is to make a center, which is able to dispatch this new image of research to all over the world.